Hi guys. I wanted to put this little story out there to maybe help other in the future and possibly have some ideas on what might have happened.
I have been running my 60GB Vertex 2E for about 3 years and its never missed a beat. I have Windows 7, 2500K@ 4.6ghz, 670's SLI.
My kid was played NFS2 when he had a BOSD. Nothing unusual there, but it was a 7A code which i had never seen before. Next the computer totally locks every few mins after restarting, requiring a hard reset. I tried everything, bios stock setting, chkdsk, the lot. It even crashed when i ran a boot level virus scan. So i decided to do a fresh install of windows (seeing the installation was years old i was thinking it was due it anyway. However during the install it crashed . This made me believe the SSD was on its way out, coupled with the 7A BSOD. So i went and bought a 256gb Samsung 840. Windows installed, no problems, all back to normal.
Then i started getting a random, disk read error, press ctrl alt del, at boot. This happened 1 in 6 boots roughly. After checking online i reconnected the sata cables, more chkdsk, then the problem occurred more often, sometimes 3 times in a row! Then i replaced the sata cable with the new one i got with the SSD. I have run 10 restarts with no problems, so hoping thats the problem away!
So it looks like the sata cable damaged the original SSD? Is this possible? Shall i bin the old SSD for any thoughts on what went wrong?
I have been running my 60GB Vertex 2E for about 3 years and its never missed a beat. I have Windows 7, 2500K@ 4.6ghz, 670's SLI.
My kid was played NFS2 when he had a BOSD. Nothing unusual there, but it was a 7A code which i had never seen before. Next the computer totally locks every few mins after restarting, requiring a hard reset. I tried everything, bios stock setting, chkdsk, the lot. It even crashed when i ran a boot level virus scan. So i decided to do a fresh install of windows (seeing the installation was years old i was thinking it was due it anyway. However during the install it crashed . This made me believe the SSD was on its way out, coupled with the 7A BSOD. So i went and bought a 256gb Samsung 840. Windows installed, no problems, all back to normal.
Then i started getting a random, disk read error, press ctrl alt del, at boot. This happened 1 in 6 boots roughly. After checking online i reconnected the sata cables, more chkdsk, then the problem occurred more often, sometimes 3 times in a row! Then i replaced the sata cable with the new one i got with the SSD. I have run 10 restarts with no problems, so hoping thats the problem away!
So it looks like the sata cable damaged the original SSD? Is this possible? Shall i bin the old SSD for any thoughts on what went wrong?
