I use a 128gb Vertex x 3 as an OS drive. Originally it was installed on a P67A MSI board and to start with no issues but......
It started not being seen by the motherboard upon boot - way round it was to switch on at plug but not to press the start button, leave for 30 seconds or so and then press start - the drive would be seen , no problem.
Obviously having to wait defeated the point of the ssd drive so decided that I would upgrade from P67 to Z68 (had always fancied a play with one
)and this I recently did purchasing an Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 board and completed the build last week. Everything appeared to be working fine when....
A little earlier today when using the internet , the screen went black and the screen blue power light was now flashing also the speakers were emitting a clicking noise. - Checked things over and realised that the motherboard led 'red' warning light was now 'on'.
Tried re-booting - nothing ; not even into the bios. (n.b. all fans ,lights etc were on).
Switched off - gave it a few seconds and tried again . This time it booted into the bios - got the warning that the overclock had failed (odd as am not yet running an overclock!) and found , when I checked the boot devices found that the ocz was not there. Re-started after a few sec wait and this time it , again, went to bios screen but was able to find the ocz but it ,now, was down as the second boot device. Changed it to 1st, re-booted and this time it did try to boot - quick screen flash(a flash!) ; indeterminate what it said before it was back to 'nothing'.
Decided to dismantle and re-fit the drive and to change the sata cable.
Did - and am now using.
BUT is it just getting ready to fail ; permanently?
Would I be best to buy a new ssd & clone the vertex to the new drive? (I really do not want to have to re-install everything to a new drive because the vertex fails !!)
Thoughts appreciated
It started not being seen by the motherboard upon boot - way round it was to switch on at plug but not to press the start button, leave for 30 seconds or so and then press start - the drive would be seen , no problem.
Obviously having to wait defeated the point of the ssd drive so decided that I would upgrade from P67 to Z68 (had always fancied a play with one
)and this I recently did purchasing an Asus P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 board and completed the build last week. Everything appeared to be working fine when....A little earlier today when using the internet , the screen went black and the screen blue power light was now flashing also the speakers were emitting a clicking noise. - Checked things over and realised that the motherboard led 'red' warning light was now 'on'.
Tried re-booting - nothing ; not even into the bios. (n.b. all fans ,lights etc were on).
Switched off - gave it a few seconds and tried again . This time it booted into the bios - got the warning that the overclock had failed (odd as am not yet running an overclock!) and found , when I checked the boot devices found that the ocz was not there. Re-started after a few sec wait and this time it , again, went to bios screen but was able to find the ocz but it ,now, was down as the second boot device. Changed it to 1st, re-booted and this time it did try to boot - quick screen flash(a flash!) ; indeterminate what it said before it was back to 'nothing'.
Decided to dismantle and re-fit the drive and to change the sata cable.
Did - and am now using.
BUT is it just getting ready to fail ; permanently?
Would I be best to buy a new ssd & clone the vertex to the new drive? (I really do not want to have to re-install everything to a new drive because the vertex fails !!)
Thoughts appreciated
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- it's not that I'm at a total loss more of the view that 'diagnosis' is the problem not the parts
