OCZ Official Statement regarding hardware issues reported by other manufacturers

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OCZ is aware of firmware issues that have been reported in the field that are potentially causing bluescreens on all SF2000 based drives, this issue affects a very small percentage of Vertex 3 and Agility 3 SSDs, and currently less than 1% of all our customers are affected. This hard to replicate issue is a completely different issue than what some other drive manufacturers are experiencing, which may have similar symptoms but is caused by a hardware issue. Unlike other brands OCZ does not use a reference design, and we design and manufacture our SSDs in-house, and are NOT affected by the hardware problems which are unique to other drive vendors.

OCZ is working diligently with our customers and SandForce to quickly resolve the outstanding firmware issues and we will be releasing a firmware update that addresses the bluescreen issue as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime we encourage any customers that are experiencing any bluescreen issues to contact our customer service team for immediate support.
 
The low customer figure may be due to the fact that not everyone is on firmware 2.06. This is the firmware causing the BSOD.
 
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Thanks for the update, I've just ordered one which should arrive today so will update as soon as I get it.

Edit - scratch that I have a SandForce SF-2281!!
 
That's a SF-2000 drive, well 2xxx would make it more clear. So don't update to firmware 2.06 when you get it, wait for the newer one
 
I already have ocz agility 3 60 gb since yesterday, and came with firmware 2.06, had bsod only once but I have the cold boot issue - cant see the SSD in bios when powering up the PC for the first time - then have to do many many restarts to get bios to "see" the SSD. There are so many users with this issue now that I have looked in ocz forums but OCZ have not addressed this cold boot issue in their statement!
 
Any ideas what message these BSOD's are causing? I had one last night but don't know what caused it.

It's a real lovely BSOD message though and the developer needs to be commended:

"Modification of system code or a critical data structure was detected". I bet even Sherlock might struggle with that one.
 
Still waiting on the firmware update. They tried like hell to deny that there was a problem but after user after user kept posting on the forum about it they finally admitted that there was a problem and they are trying to fix it.
 
Mine was BSOD'ing but not now after I tweaked power settings etc & all manner of things that people have recommended & touch wood (taps head) it's been fine since.

Hope it stays that way :D
 
Gazanimal said:
Mine was BSOD'ing but not now after I tweaked power settings etc & all manner of things that people have recommended & touch wood (taps head) it's been fine since.

Hope it stays that way :D
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How many days stable uptime? After tweaks and various things I thought I was in the clear after almost 3 days uptime then another stutter the drive didnt recover from requiring a power cycle/cold restart.
 
inph said:
How many days stable uptime? After tweaks and various things I thought I was in the clear after almost 3 days uptime then another stutter the drive didnt recover from requiring a power cycle/cold restart.
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Same, mine was fine for a few days and then BAM! BSOD.
 
zpos said:
Any ideas what message these BSOD's are causing? I had one last night but don't know what caused it.

It's a real lovely BSOD message though and the developer needs to be commended:

"Modification of system code or a critical data structure was detected". I bet even Sherlock might struggle with that one.
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Some peeps on the OCZ forums believe its the current Intel chipset drivers. If and when my Agility 3 drive turns up (DX Secure are useless!! OCUK need to drop'em - but thats for another thread) I'll test for you.
 
Awahwah said:
Some peeps on the OCZ forums believe its the current Intel chipset drivers. If and when my Agility 3 drive turns up (DX Secure are useless!! OCUK need to drop'em - but thats for another thread) I'll test for you.
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I'm seeing stutter/power drop out on MS AHCI currently. So even if the Intel drivers have problems (some of) the drives also have their own problems.
 
I may be having this problem. Bought an overclocked custom PC from Overclockers with a 120GB Agility 3 and it hung on the first day. Got stuck in some weird reboot loop where the fan lights would go on and off. Had to turn off the power supply to stop it. When I turned it back on the BIOS reported it changed my settings back to defaults. I changed to the optimized defaults but I had one more hang and two BSODs the next day.

From trawling the 30+ page thread on OCZ forums, suggested causes include:

Overclocking (my PC was overclocked the first time but not the rest)
OCZ's 2.06 drivers (my Agility 3 has this version - you can't roll back)
Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver (but some are reported problems without it installed)
Sleep/hibernate functionality
 
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