Kernal Data Inpage Error - Crucial M4 SSD Problem/Firmware?

[Jenz]

Hi,

I have an OC's Mosasaur with the following spec:

"Ultima 9450i Mosasaur MKII" Intel 4.60GHz Quad Core 7970
System

SW-127-MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM
FS-064-OP System 12 Months Standard Warranty
XX-046-XX No Crossfire Upgrade
CP-397-IN Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155
Processor - OEM
MB-493-AS Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
MY-094-KS Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9
1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)
HS-006-AN Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
(LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+)
CA-052-OC OCZ ZX Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
CD-099-LG OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
HD-253-SE System Int. Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB
Cache - OEM (ST500DM002)
CA-080-OP Foam Silencing Kit for Corsair Carbide 500R Cases
GX-048-HS HIS ATI Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics
Card
FS-202-OE OcUK Logo Retangle Gel Case Badge - Black
CA-082-OP OcUK Tech Lab Silent PC Case - Corsair Carbide 500R - White
HD-009-CR Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
(CT128M4SSD2)
MY-094-KS Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9
1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)

It has worked flawlessly the last 10 months I have had it.

However since Tuesday I have been getting BSOD. The error is Kernal Data Inpage Error with a stop code of 0x0000007A.

The crash dump stays stuck at "Initialising disk for crash dump...".

I am unable to restart the machine unless I do a FULL power cycle. The machine seems to do the BSOD randomly and I have not been at the PC whilst it has done it .

I have googled the Error and Stopcode to no avail. However I did find one mention of this on another forum reporting that the new 10g Firmware for the Crucial M4 which is my primary OS drive.

I am going to update t0 10g (pretty such I am currently pre-0309 actually) but is there anything else anyone might suggest ? Or has anyone else seen this error?

I am at work this morning so left the PC running in Safe Mode to see if it occurs in Safe Mode also.

Regards Neil.

 

[Durzel]

I'd upgrade the firmware first and see how you get on, 0309 is ancient.

Specifically one of the more recent firmwares fixed this show-stopping bug:

Correct a condition where an incorrect response to a SMART counter will cause the m4 drive to become unresponsive after 5184 hours of Power-on time. The drive will recover after a power cycle, however, this failure will repeat once per hour after reaching this point. The condition will allow the end user to successfully update firmware, and poses no risk to user or system data stored on the drive.

Strictly speaking though KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR generally points to a HDD problem.

 

[Jenz]

Interestingly that could be my issue as the machine has been running longer than that actually. I will do the firmware upgrade when i get home.

Strictly speaking though KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR generally points to a HDD problem.

Surely an SSD is an HDD?

 

[Durzel]

Yes, sorry being explicit I mean "a problem with data storage"