M4 SSD 5200 hour timebomb

_Jimlad_ · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:12

^^

i dont really know, apart from its newer lol

Broken Hope · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:21

addylad said:
Can anyone explain what AHCI mode is, and why people use IDE to update? Completely clueless as I'm setting mine up in the next few days. Do I need it on a USB to update the FW, and can I do this before W7 install? Thanks.

AHCI is a newer way of accessing hard drives which gives higher performance, the reason some people are switching to IDE to flash their drive is because the older firmware flasher didn't support AHCI mode, the new one does and there is no issue updating in AHCI mode.

You can update off a USB drive or off a CD/DVD there's no difference, just not everyone has an optical drive these days.

ColEx · 15 Jan 2012 at 16:08

Blue160 said:
7.8.

I think that's because I'm still on sata 2.

I am Sata 2, and mine shows up as 7.9. But i guess it doesn't matter as long as your speeds are showing correctly.

nalla · 15 Jan 2012 at 17:45

hmm i just tried that ssd life and it says i dont have any ssd's, is that because they are in raid0

Crunch776 · 15 Jan 2012 at 18:29

Tried updating my firmware via USB and it hangs on Finding Drives... Anyone else get that or know how to fix it?

I tried IDE and AHCI.

marktime · 15 Jan 2012 at 20:15

Crunch776 said:
Tried updating my firmware via USB and it hangs on Finding Drives... Anyone else get that or know how to fix it?

I tried IDE and AHCI.

Think I read someone with a similar problem on the Crucial forums got it to work by disabling any third party storage controllers on the board whilst running the update.

Crunch776 · 15 Jan 2012 at 21:21

marktime said:
Think I read someone with a similar problem on the Crucial forums got it to work by disabling any third party storage controllers on the board whilst running the update.

That sort of helped, i went in to disable the marvell storage controller and saw that had an option for AHCI and IDE, Switched that to IDE and it worked

Marakith · 15 Jan 2012 at 21:34

Updated mine this morning. Worked perfectly first time.

I'm glad I found out about this bug - I could have been pulling my hair out at hour 5201!

Elevon · 15 Jan 2012 at 22:16

Broken Hope said:
AHCI is a newer way of accessing hard drives which gives higher performance, the reason some people are switching to IDE to flash their drive is because the older firmware flasher didn't support AHCI mode, the new one does and there is no issue updating in AHCI mode.

You can update off a USB drive or off a CD/DVD there's no difference, just not everyone has an optical drive these days.

I did mine in IDE mode,was set as RAID before since using M4 64GB as SSD cache drive on my Z68 board, anyway no issues updating firmware via IDE,as you can see typing this post on same PC

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Yes I set my PC back to RAID after

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Orcvader · 15 Jan 2012 at 23:06

Flashed mine in AHCI mode. All is good now (hopefully)!

Tombo · 16 Jan 2012 at 04:35

Elevon said:
I did mine in IDE mode,was set as RAID before since using M4 64GB as SSD cache drive on my Z68 board, anyway no issues updating firmware via IDE,as you can see typing this post on same PC .

Yes I set my PC back to RAID after .

IDE and ACHI both work, RAID doesn't as far as I know.

Elevon · 16 Jan 2012 at 12:32

Tombo said:
IDE and ACHI both work, RAID doesn't as far as I know.

RAID does not work,first thing I tried,so yes set to either IDE or ACHI for firmware update.

Castiel · 16 Jan 2012 at 15:19

Flashed mine a moment ago in AHCI mode...no issues except monitor didn't switch on for the windows reboot...but was fine on the second....probably just a glitch.

Duke · 16 Jan 2012 at 18:53

Update worked fine for me.

BeeP · 16 Jan 2012 at 22:56

Updated in AHCI mode, all fine here too.

IvanDobskey · 17 Jan 2012 at 12:10

I had to switch my marvell controller to ide mode to get the firmware flash to work. It just hung at finding drives before i did this. Note: my M4 is on the intel controller.

Orcvader · 17 Jan 2012 at 13:33

IvanDobskey said:
I had to switch my marvell controller to ide mode to get the firmware flash to work. It just hung at finding drives before i did this. Note: my M4 is on the intel controller.

Do you have anything connected to the Marvell? Might as well disable it. Shortens POST a bit during boot too.

IvanDobskey · 18 Jan 2012 at 09:35

Orcvader said:
Do you have anything connected to the Marvell? Might as well disable it. Shortens POST a bit during boot too.

I did disable it until i realised i had my optical drive on there and needed it to flash the firmware

Deception · 18 Jan 2012 at 13:28

Thanks for this, going to update mine tonight

GoogalyMoogaly · 18 Jan 2012 at 13:43

IvanDobskey said:
I did disable it until i realised i had my optical drive on there and needed it to flash the firmware

I had done exactly the same thing!