M4 borked after firmware update

IvanDobskey · 4 Apr 2013 at 09:38

My 128gb m4 has been excellent since purchase. However, I updated it to the new firmware last night and it came up with an error but seemed to carry on working ok. Tried to boot this morning and the drive is no longer recognised! Anyone got any ideas?

If I have to replace it, what's currently the best drive to go for? Looking at the 256gb Samsung 840 pro for £179 with £50 cash back. Any good?

FreeStream · 4 Apr 2013 at 10:06

Only get £15 off the 840 Pro 256GB by the way.

Good drive tho.

I have a 830 256GB and recently bought the 840 250GB

IvanDobskey · 4 Apr 2013 at 10:16

Is the non pro version much slower?

wazza300 · 4 Apr 2013 at 12:44

have you left it out of your machine for few hours then tried? tried clearing cmos aswell? this will reset your oc/bios settings though so make a note beforehand

flopper · 4 Apr 2013 at 12:48

Might be a eufi chipset thing.
check bios version vs firmware for those drives

and a manual update for it on another mechine might restore it

IvanDobskey · 4 Apr 2013 at 15:10

I've left it totally disconnected today. Will try it again tonight before resorting to buying a new one.

How do you do a manual update?

IvanDobskey · 4 Apr 2013 at 18:37

Reconnected the ssd and tried again but still dead. Then I tried reloading bios defaults and it springs back to life! Very odd.

Just hope it still works after setting my bios up again and connecting all my storage drives.

trickynickyuk · 4 Apr 2013 at 19:12

if not contact corsair direct if still in warrenty and see if you can RMA it

IvanDobskey · 4 Apr 2013 at 19:13

All working as before now

Very odd!

opethdisciple · 4 Apr 2013 at 23:20

IvanDobskey said:
I've left it totally disconnected today. Will try it again tonight before resorting to buying a new one.

How do you do a manual update?

I always do a manual update. From the firmware page, download iso and burn to disk.

Then boot from disk and follow instructions.

olivier renault · 4 Apr 2013 at 23:51

IvanDobskey said:
All working as before now

Very odd!

Possibly needed a full power down? Computers are weird like that sometimes.

IvanDobskey · 5 Apr 2013 at 02:01

opethdisciple said:
I always do a manual update. From the firmware page, download iso and burn to disk.

Then boot from disk and follow instructions.

Ah, see what you mean now. I did this with the first few FW updates and never had a problem (apart from having to disconnect all my other drives the first time). I think the windows FW update application is a bit flaky to say the least.