SSD boot issue

Clawz114

Clawz114

Clawz114

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I have an OCZ Vertex 2 100GB and I'm having some problems,

Here's what's happening,

New CPU, new motherboard and new RAM. Put it all together, no problems. Plugged in my SSD and 2 hard drives, and since then it's been very temperamental. When I load the BIOS and go into the SATA devices list, it will only list the vertex around half of the time at best. It will either tell me that the SATA port it is plugged into is empty, or it will tell me the drive is there. If I just try and start the computer, it will sometimes boot into Windows without any issues, but sometimes it will cycle through the other hard drives and then take me to the BIOS (where it will show the SATA port as being empty)

I've tried the following with no sucess

New SATA data cable and power cable (including trying the cables which are plugged into the hard drives that always show up in the BIOS)
Using a different SATA port on the motherboard
Unplugging the other 2 hard drives and just starting up with the SSD
Swearing at it and discovering my warranty ran out 2 months ago
Updating the firmware to the latest version
I was even going to try and re-instal Windows but the drive didn't show up in the disc management/partition window during installation.

All of the above has led me to believe that the drive might be on it's way out and needs to be replaced. Is there anything I could try that I've missed? Any ideas The motherboard has SATA 6Gb/s. This wouldn't be causing any issues with an older SATA 2 vertex drive would it? It's all backwards compatible right? The only weird thing was that it was booting fine every time on my old motherboard and once I finally get into Windows, I don't have any problems.

Thanks
 
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Bought a new SSD. Problem solved. Either the old SSD is broken or it has some kinda incompatibility with my new motherboard/cpu/ram setup.
 
According to OCZ its an incompatability with Haswell and Sandforce, having said that you don't say what cpu you are running ?
I have the same issue, and that's what OCZ tell me, I think its a bit of a major oversight on intel and whoever makes sandforce if that's the case.
What SSD did you get ?
 
Vogon said:
According to OCZ its an incompatability with Haswell and Sandforce, having said that you don't say what cpu you are running ?
I have the same issue, and that's what OCZ tell me, I think its a bit of a major oversight on intel and whoever makes sandforce if that's the case.
What SSD did you get ?
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Nice story :) Very well described too. I also want to know which SSD you purchased? It is really wierd that you have faced this kind of a issue with vertex 2! May be a particular case with that SSD only, otherwise I havent heard much complaints againse sandforce based vertex2
 
It's an intel problem with haswell and some sandforce drives,I've a vertex 2 working on a Marvell sata port on z87x-ud3h,still reads upto spec,but same drive isnt recognised on intel sata ports.
It's an annoyance,asus proved that it can be fixed via bios update by sending hardcop a beta bios that sorted the problem during a mb review,but far as I know gigabyte are waiting for a fix via intel.
 
Yes I'm using a Samsung 840 as boot drive with vertex 2 480gb for steam and general storage,840's a nice drive with quick read times,on a new build I can't get over windows booting so fast,nice tho:)
 
Older ssd drives didnt follow the sata spec exactly. With 8 series intel chipsets and haswell CPUs, intel tightened up the spec so now these older drives have problems functioning correctly all the time.

That's the cause of OP problem. The drive should be fine on any non haswell/8 series mb
 
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