Crucial M4 010G firmware update

embalse · 30 Oct 2012 at 07:03

Yep, installed 010G yesterday on my x79-5UD with no errors.
This morning my screen freezes and on reboot I get the black screen/blinking curser.

Other forums are suggesting downgrading to 000F.

Is there a good link to how to do this using a CD .

embalse · 30 Oct 2012 at 08:19

Ok,

I resolved this.

I downloaded 00F from here..

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/000F/Crucialm4_000F.zip

Burnt it to a CD using the default W7 burner.

Then disconnected all the drives except the M4 SDD boot drive (leaving other drives connected confused the update and left it reaching for drives)

Made sure the CD player booted 1st in Bios

Then booted from CD.

It updated back from 010G to 00F with no errors.

I now have my computer back.

~Mike~ · 30 Oct 2012 at 08:24

Think I'll stick with 000F for the time being

embalse · 30 Oct 2012 at 08:26

Mike306 said:
Think I'll stick with 000F for the time being

I believe the problem only affects those who have a UEFI Bios.

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Addicted · 1 Nov 2012 at 09:56

Just updated to this as I was having some major issues writing - on patching games (eg Planetside 2) it would slow down the whole system and make it in-operable while patching - this seems to have increase the speed again!

edit; did a benchmark - maybe not:

Do you think it could be Diskeeper messing up the speeds? Does anyone use it?

I'm not sure how to fix it, but its a bit slow.

bledd · 1 Nov 2012 at 10:30

imo, no need for diskeeper in windows 7, it does a good job at not fragmenting your drives anyway

Addicted · 1 Nov 2012 at 10:47

bledd. said:
imo, no need for diskeeper in windows 7, it does a good job at not fragmenting your drives anyway

I've now turned it off for the SSD, will see if it improves when I benchmark in a few days (to allow it to settle), something is certainly not right though and I can't pinpoint it!

Genoma · 1 Nov 2012 at 22:00

SSD dead after upgrading to 010G :-(

Power cycling is not working. UEFI BIOS on laptop, only found out about the issues after I upgraded ... :-/

Desktop has been fine, no UEFI BIOS.

embalse · 2 Nov 2012 at 04:54

Genoma said:
SSD dead after upgrading to 010G Power cycling is not working. UEFI BIOS on laptop, only found out about the issues after I upgraded ... :-/

Desktop has been fine, no UEFI BIOS.

If you download 00F from here and burn to CD..

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/...ialm4_000F.zip

Going back to OOF is painless

Duke · 2 Nov 2012 at 08:45

chaparral said:
Am going to leave my two M4 on the 0309 firmware as i no have any problems..

Nothing wrong with 000F, I would at least bring it up to that firmware.

Genoma · 2 Nov 2012 at 16:04

Thanks for the link, downgraded and have my drive back.

I've had zero issues with 000F on Win7. Win8 doesn't seem to like 000F on my Samsung gamer laptop though (fine on desktop). On the laptop it seems to go into a weird mode with 100% disk utilization (performance not storage) and brings the system to a halt.

embalse · 2 Nov 2012 at 16:26

Genoma said:
Thanks for the link, downgraded and have my drive back.

I've had zero issues with 000F on Win7. Win8 doesn't seem to like 000F on my Samsung gamer laptop though (fine on desktop). On the laptop it seems to go into a weird mode with 100% disk utilization (performance not storage) and brings the system to a halt.

Good to know about W8.
I have upgraded my computers without sdd with no issues to W8. I may now hold back a bit before upgrading my SDD computers to W8.

Genoma · 2 Nov 2012 at 17:10

I'm pretty sure this is a problem on my specific laptop, I've had zero problems with my desktop and also the performance issue went away when I upgrade to 010G. It could even be a chipset issue which leaves me no option on W8 + M4 SDDs on this Samsung laptop.

Win8 + 000F Firmware = performance issue
0G10 = drive loss bug with UEFI BIOS full stop

I'm trying a Samsung SSD this afternoon to see how it goes.

Crucial really messed up this firmware.

JudgeC · 6 Nov 2012 at 07:43

I bought the M4 preloaded with 010G and a clean install of Win 8, after no end of strange problems with having an inaccessible BIOS until I changed the M4 onto a different SATA port, USB keyboard and mouse into different ports and changed the monitor lead from HDMI to D-Sub.
Now I can actually access the BIOS, but when I make any significant changes, the system has boot issues and hangs on BIOS until I do a clear CMOS.

Could this be related to a dodgy firmware on the M4?
If you asked me a few days ago I would have said not, but this new build has me doubting fundamental truths.

Genoma · 6 Nov 2012 at 08:40

yes it might indeed, the machine might be hanging as it can't find the drive attached to the SATA port, the problems with 010G are related to UEFI BIOS issues.

Downgrade the M4 firmware to 000F by burning the ISO to a CD and booting the CD and all your problems should be gone. 010G is simply broken

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/...ialm4_000F.zip

embalse · 6 Nov 2012 at 08:46

JudgeC said:
I bought the M4 preloaded with 010G and a clean install of Win 8, after no end of strange problems with having an inaccessible BIOS until I changed the M4 onto a different SATA port, USB keyboard and mouse into different ports and changed the monitor lead from HDMI to D-Sub.
Now I can actually access the BIOS, but when I make any significant changes, the system has boot issues and hangs on BIOS until I do a clear CMOS.

Could this be related to a dodgy firmware on the M4?
If you asked me a few days ago I would have said not, but this new build has me doubting fundamental truths.

SDD needs to be on port 0 to boot properly when installing O/S.

The firmware is not dodgy. It is just Crucial did not make it clear enough to users that the firmware effects the UEFI BIOS.

If you have a UEFI BIOS then that is your problem. You need to put firmware 00F on it.

naefeart · 6 Nov 2012 at 09:37

I thought the point of upgrading to 010G was to fix the freezing issues encountered after a runtime of 5200hrs (that was not fixed by 000F)?

embalse · 6 Nov 2012 at 09:46

naefeart said:
I thought the point of upgrading to 010G was to fix the freezing issues encountered after a runtime of 5200hrs (that was not fixed by 000F)?

Maybe, just not for the UEFI bios.

naefeart · 6 Nov 2012 at 10:38

Lol, first time not having a UEFI bios has been a 'plus'.

Durzel · 6 Nov 2012 at 10:55

The firmware update page mentions UEFI but only in the context of the firmware updater sometimes not recognising the drive as being eligible for an upgrade, it doesn't (as far as I can see) talk about the drive disappearing completely from the BIOS after it had successfully been patched to 010G.