I bought on of the 60gb Vertex 2's on offer yesterday and have started installing into my Windows 7 system.
I update the bios on my GA-P55-UD5 MB because there were reports on the OCZ forums about issues with SMART reporting on Gigabyte boards. So I now have 11c on with all my original overclocked settings back in. Enabled AHCI for eSata in the bios as well.
I added the SSD as a slave drive and Windows 7 detects it during boot up. Its running 1.23 firmware so I felt I should upgrade that as well before going any further.
This is where I am having problems and I cannot upgrade the firmware. First I tried the OCZ tool which downloads the latest firmware on the fly. I get a warning from the firewall and after okaying it I then get a total system freeze about 10s later.
I then tried the more normal updater and downloaded the 1.24 package from OCZ. This appears to complete the process but the drive firmware remains at 1.23 after the reboot. I have tried this three time and on the fourth attempt I had another system freeze.
I am starting to worry that I might have an incompatibility or a faulty drive somewhere, and I havent even got as far as installing an OS on it yet!
I update the bios on my GA-P55-UD5 MB because there were reports on the OCZ forums about issues with SMART reporting on Gigabyte boards. So I now have 11c on with all my original overclocked settings back in. Enabled AHCI for eSata in the bios as well.
I added the SSD as a slave drive and Windows 7 detects it during boot up. Its running 1.23 firmware so I felt I should upgrade that as well before going any further.
This is where I am having problems and I cannot upgrade the firmware. First I tried the OCZ tool which downloads the latest firmware on the fly. I get a warning from the firewall and after okaying it I then get a total system freeze about 10s later.
I then tried the more normal updater and downloaded the 1.24 package from OCZ. This appears to complete the process but the drive firmware remains at 1.23 after the reboot. I have tried this three time and on the fourth attempt I had another system freeze.
I am starting to worry that I might have an incompatibility or a faulty drive somewhere, and I havent even got as far as installing an OS on it yet!