Constant blue screen. bad SSD?

Shivy011 said:
Crucial have decent support, so you should be fine there. If you bought from ocuk, a screenshot of the order summary will suffice as proof of purchase, though invoice is nicer
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Well I've just sent them an email with the problem and when they get back to me with some more info I will send them all they need :P I have all the documentation so no problem. I might even have the documentation from the SSD itself around here somewhere not sure but I don't think they need that many details for an SSD replace haha.
 
MSTRBKR said:
I had this problem too. I mean exactly this problem. Random BSODs and system crashes, then upon reboot it would say "disk read error" or "please insert bootable device" etc. I would have to turn the power off for 10 minutes and then try again.

I decided to do something about it last week when it got really, really bad. I tried to return it, but the chat agent (who was extremely helpful) sent me this link. It worked on my crucial M4. It's now in my laptop.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/My-SSD-used-to-be-so-much-faster-What-happened/ta-p/118310

"On a desktop PC, simply disconnect the SATA cable from your SSD and only leave the power cable connected. After switching your PC on, the SSD will be in an idle state but still have power so Garbage Collection can function."

Unbelievable really that SSDs need this kind of TLC. Even though windows 7 has TRIM, it appeared to not work on my M4 SSD.

Give that a go?
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I just did that right now in the control panel, it was actually set at 20 mins so hopefully something will fix but not quite sure it will since it happens while gaming and such but hey, worth a try.

HACO said:
Crucial's RMA is top notch. Just chat and they will sort out a replacement.
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I'm glad to hear that :P I will be waiting for a reply tomorrow form them.
 
This can happen if you have your OS on the SSD, but the MBR on a HDD (master boot record). Used to anyway (in Win 7 and before). Dunno about the new Windows OSes.

I usually repair or re-install windows, with no HDD connected to the motherboard.

The Crucial M4 also had a firmware bug that would trigger random BSODs.
 
olivier renault said:
This can happen if you have your OS on the SSD, but the MBR on a HDD (master boot record). Used to anyway (in Win 7 and before). Dunno about the new Windows OSes.

I usually repair or re-install windows, with no HDD connected to the motherboard.

The Crucial M4 also had a firmware bug that would trigger random BSODs.
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I did install the OS withouth the HDD connected :P But now I updated the firmware for the SSD so maybe it fixed. nothing happened since last night so yeah, i shall give it a week or so to see if it keeps doing it.
 
MSTRBKR said:
Did you sort this out?
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Well.. Not really since I did get a blue screen yesterday but it wasn't the same way. I mean it froze for a while since I was mashing the mouse buttons to get a response and then blue screened on me but it wasn't with the same symptoms.

I'll give it another week and see what's up
 
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