Where To Start Troubleshooting This?

BillHicksRIP

BillHicksRIP

BillHicksRIP

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Have had the rig below for about 18 months. Had some problems with it bluescreening all of the time initially but worked with OcUK to up the CPU voltage and it's been stable for gaming and regular tasks for quite a while. I'm building some virtual machines at the moment which involves quite intensive CPU activity but am getting bluescreens every time:-

- VM is being built, music is playing, can still surf etc
- Firefox locks up, CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, music dies
- Blue screen (have seen NTFS mentioned). After reboot, get the message NTLDR is missing
- M4 SSD doesn't show up in the POST screen. Unplug the power cable and restart, and it appears. Just rebooting does not show the M4.
- Have to go into BIOS and select it to be the primary boot device. Reboot again and all is well

The VMs are not being built onto the SSD and I'm not copying to or from it when the bluescreens are happening. Not sure where to start with this. Thanks

Corsair PC Starter Bundle 2000c - 600TM Case / TX 850W V2 PSU / H80 CPU Cooler
Krypton Z68 600i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Overclocked Bundle
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Asus P8Z68-V PRO Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) HDD
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp
Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD2)
MSI GeForce GTX 580 Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Windows 7 Home Premium
 
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tried a touch more cpu voltage? the cause of the ssd missing will be down to it crashing badly,normally it will recognise it again after a power off ect
 
What firmwire is the SSD running? Could be the 5000 hour bug that caused the M4 to have loads of problems? Try updating it and see if that helps.
 
Hardware ID says on the M4 says. Have tried doing the firmware update once but didnt seem to work. Posted a message about updating hardware family then didnt do anything. Will try again.

M4-CT256M4SSD2__________________________0009____
 
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Crucial has simplified the updating process ever since the 0309 firmwire that fixed the bug.

Make sure the updater is on the SSD itself and not on any other drive, then run the program and the PC will reboot into the updater utility and do everything automatically. Once it's all done it will reboot back into Windows and hopefully you should have no more problems then.
 
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