What the banana split is happening?

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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Hi all,

I was browsing the net and launched itunes, but nothing happened. It ended up with a generic Itunes.exe stopped working. I closed it and tried again. Same. I clicked "check online to see if there was a fix" just on the !% chance that feature would be of any use ever, and then that application crashed too.

Anything I launched off my C: drive would not launch at all. Games, music apps, chrome. I could navigate around C: folders within windows fine though. Windows is on C:. I opened up my samsung magician tool and it couldnt find any drives to optimise etc. It used to find all 3- C (SSD) E and F (HDDs).

I restarted and it tried to boot from C: and it said "there was a read write error from the boot volume". CTRL ALT DEL to restart".

Is my SSD C drive dead? It's a 830 and less than 1 month old.
 
My budget is 0! Will a format and a clean install fix my SSD? If not, Can I not get it replaced? It should have some sort of warrenty for a year at least? The rest of my computer is just fine!
 
Lazder said:
time to build brand new PC mate, whats ur budget??
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You think? His sig says he has a fairly good system. Sounds like a dead SSD, which is far cheaper to put right than a whole new computer.

i7 860 2.8 @3.7GHz / P7P55D EVO / 4GB DDR1600 / ATI 7870
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Edit: Or free, under warranty

Edit 2: Oh I see, your one of those
 
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almoststew1990 said:
My budget is 0! Will a format and a clean install fix my SSD? If not, Can I not get it replaced? It should have some sort of warrenty for a year at least? The rest of my computer is just fine!
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You think its fine, but it is not... you have to build new one afraid :rolleyes:

Can you reinstall OS on that drive?? Maybe you caught a nasty flu and the computer got sicky sicky??

I`d get +4 gb ram in your system tbh, I dont know how you manage to play top end games.. I had to deal with 4gb for 1 week and I nearly cried... BF3 and other games used to crash with warning about low ram...
 
Now I'm very confused about what you two are on about! Is it broken and needing replacing, or will a clean install fix it?

And meh, I'm coping alright with 4GB. Never had any problems with running out of RAM. I just have zero crap running at start up or in the background. I have thought about it but can't justify the upgrade when I would probably get new significantly faster RAM in the next socket gen anyway. DDR 3 3000MHz or DDR 4 or whatever it will be, who knows.
 
Only one way to find out! Do the easiest first, a clean install, very latest drivers etc.

If it was me I'd backup everything on the SSD, check it is running the latest firmware using the Samsung software, Secure Erase it, change the SATA cable to be on the safe side. Make sure it is plugged into a Intel SATA port and make sure ACHI is enabled in the BIOS. Then do a clean install with the latest drivers you can find.
 
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almoststew1990 said:
Now I'm very confused about what you two are on about! Is it broken and needing replacing, or will a clean install fix it?

And meh, I'm coping alright with 4GB. Never had any problems with running out of RAM. I just have zero crap running at start up or in the background. I have thought about it but can't justify the upgrade when I would probably get new significantly faster RAM in the next socket gen anyway. DDR 3 3000MHz or DDR 4 or whatever it will be, who knows.
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Its like 20 pounds for 8 gb :(:(:(

I`d say try clean istall if dont work, then RMA the SSD. Simples
 
Lazder said:
I dont know how you manage to play top end games.. I had to deal with 4gb for 1 week and I nearly cried... BF3 and other games used to crash with warning about low ram...
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One of my RAM sticks died months ago and I have been running on 1x4GB for ages simply due to the fact I have had zero issues and have just not got round to it. No problems at all on any games I play

Speed said:
Only one way to find out! Do the easiest first, a clean install, very latest drivers etc.

If it was me I'd backup everything on the SSD, check it is running the latest firmware using the Samsung software, Secure Erase it, change the SATA cable to be on the safe side. Make sure it is plugged into a Intel SATA port and make sure ACHI is enabled in the BIOS. Then do a clean install with the latest drivers you can find.
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Sound advice.

Lazder said:
I`d say try clean istall if dont work, then RMA the SSD. Simples
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You could have simply said that to begin with rather than stating he/her had to build a new PC then going on about the RAM.

Does sound like the SSD is dead but you will be covered with warranty if you have no joy doing what Speed has suggested, no issues there.
 
As above is the Bios recognising the SSD at all?
If not RMA time.

If it does I'd do a clean install, maybe even check if theres a FW update for the SSD too perhaps.
 
I tried to do a clean install with all the other drives detached and it said "press any key to boot from cd", followed by " a read error occured press..." on the same screen, the line underneath.

it didnt give this message when I d/c my SSD and only had 1 HDD connected up.

My bios sees the SSD fine though...
 
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