OCZ SSD failure

neocon · 25 Sep 2013 at 09:16

I have the following drive
OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G Agility 3 120GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD, with Windows 7 installed.

A few weeks ago I got a BSofD and thought nothing of it. Restarted and all was ok.

Last night I got another BSofD and then the PC wouldn't reboot, the screen went black. Eventually I got it get past the BIOS and it was asking to replace the disk (something to that effect). It seemed like the PC couldn't detect the drive. Then I unplugged and reconnected the SSD and booted again. This time the drive showed up in the BIOS. I got a message from Windows about it being corrupted and needing to repair Windows. Tried to do this but it failed and couldn't repair.

Should I RMA the drive? or try reinstalling Windows?

Buffalo2102 · 25 Sep 2013 at 22:50

It may not be the drive. I have had similar issues with dodgy sata cables, poor mobo connections etc. Try it on a different mb port and with a different cable, if you haven't already.

neocon · 26 Sep 2013 at 09:50

Buffalo2102 said:
It may not be the drive. I have had similar issues with dodgy sata cables, poor mobo connections etc. Try it on a different mb port and with a different cable, if you haven't already.

I contacted OCZ and they suggested firmware to 2.5 which I have done. Still won;t boot though, getting the no bootmgr message. I'll try and reinstall windows on it.

Bane · 26 Sep 2013 at 13:19

Buffalo2102 said:
It may not be the drive. I have had similar issues with dodgy sata cables, poor mobo connections etc. Try it on a different mb port and with a different cable, if you haven't already.

I had a similar issue that kept reoccurring around 6 monthly intervals until I replaced motherboard supplied S-ATA cable with a branded one that included latch. Even though motherboard ports didn't support latched cables.