Dead SSD?

MotherMayI · 9 Mar 2011 at 09:42

Having a bit of trouble with a recently purchased SSD. I got the drive around a month ago now, a OCZ 2, and it worked flawlessly out of the box. Yesterday was no different, I went afk for about 30 minutes and came back to a 'No System Disk' boot failure. When I restarted BIOS did not detect the SSD at all. I tried swapping around leads and SATA ports, but with no success. However, the drive is detected about 1/10th of the time, and when it is it can boot in to Windows but crashes shortly after.

To me and my limited knowledge, it sounds like the drive is dead. However, I would be quite surprised if a modern SSD died after a month of casual use.

Is there anything else I can try? Any other ideas?

HazardO · 9 Mar 2011 at 10:23

It might just need a motherboard BIOS update or SSD firmware update, not necessarily bricked.

MotherMayI · 9 Mar 2011 at 10:26

I will try that, but why would problems relating to either of those issues start after a month?

brendan · 9 Mar 2011 at 11:09

Have you tried it in a completely different system? Make sure your motherboard isn't playing with you.

If the bios doesn't register it and it used to work then it's dead :-(