SSD Upgrade nightmare im ready to scream

Guybo · Mar 17, 2012, 02:57 PM

So I got an i5 2500k with an MSI Z68 G43 B3 MOBO and 3x2gb ddr3 I'm still using my gtx460 with and I put it in my case for my old system with the same 750 watt psu. Memtest passed the ram just fine.

The prob started when i installed vista 64 on the first OCZ 128GB Petrol ssd. Turns out the Petrol drive was bad. After i got it iI saw a lot of bad reviews with that drive and im sure i just got a dud. So i got an Agility 3 128gb ssd as aan rma replacement.

I installed vista 64 on that and life was good for one day. I installed the ahci drivers correctly it was smoking fastt and benched near promised speeds. Then I left the PC on overnight i woke up and the thing wasnt responsive. I had to kill power to then it off. Since then it has not worked right. BSOD or freezes. Sometimes itll BSOD when it hasn't even loaded windows sometimes after 20 minutes. Sometimes itll load ok then slow down after a few minutes and finally come to a stop.

The mobo bios and ssd firmware are the latest. I've tried lots oof stuff but im open to suggestions. Wtf is wrong with thia system?

Bleeder · Mar 17, 2012, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guybo

So I got an i5 2500k with an MSI Z68 G43 B3 MOBO and 3x2gb ddr3 I'm still using my gtx460 with and I put it in my case for my old system with the same 750 watt psu. Memtest passed the ram just fine.

The prob started when i installed vista 64 on the first OCZ 128GB Petrol ssd. Turns out the Petrol drive was bad. After i got it iI saw a lot of bad reviews with that drive and im sure i just got a dud. So i got an Agility 3 128gb ssd as aan rma replacement.

I installed vista 64 on that and life was good for one day. I installed the ahci drivers correctly it was smoking fastt and benched near promised speeds. Then I left the PC on overnight i woke up and the thing wasnt responsive. I had to kill power to then it off. Since then it has not worked right. BSOD or freezes. Sometimes itll BSOD when it hasn't even loaded windows sometimes after 20 minutes. Sometimes itll load ok then slow down after a few minutes and finally come to a stop.

The mobo bios and ssd firmware are the latest. I've tried lots oof stuff but im open to suggestions. Wtf is wrong with thia system?

I had a problem like this that actually killed on of my Corsair drives. The thing was working great then started to BSoD or would need me to pull the plug on the machine to get it to boot again. After reading many forum posts I found one that said this is probably caused by the OS trying to but the SSD to sleep. This can be change in Power Options. I've change all my machine with SSD's to stop trying to put the drive to sleep and they have all been working great for over a year now.

But, this was with Windows 7 and SSD's that came out about a year ago. I'm not sure what has change with firmware sense then but you may want to check that out.

Guybo · Mar 17, 2012, 04:34 PM

I had read something about that too. In windows and in the bios I disabled aany sleep functions. But that was after the morning when it first crashed. Is it possible that it went to sleep that night and that damaged the drive?

Ristogod · Mar 17, 2012, 10:41 PM

I have used a number of SSDs now since they started becoming popular. I've had situations very similar to yours. Replacement after replacement would result in issue followed by more issues.

My advice is to stick to reliable drives. When I started using Intel drives, the experience was much better.

Samsung, while never leading the performance charts tends to have fairly reliable SSDs also. I recently replaced my Indilinx based Patriot Torqx drive with a Samsung 830 256GB.

I'm not saying this is what you need to do, but if you reach a point of frustration where you just want to give up, try (if you can) either a Intel 520 series, or Samsung 830 series.

BababooeyHTJ · Mar 18, 2012, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ristogod

I have used a number of SSDs now since they started becoming popular. I've had situations very similar to yours. Replacement after replacement would result in issue followed by more issues.

My advice is to stick to reliable drives. When I started using Intel drives, the experience was much better.

Samsung, while never leading the performance charts tends to have fairly reliable SSDs also. I recently replaced my Indilinx based Patriot Torqx drive with a Samsung 830 256GB.

I'm not saying this is what you need to do, but if you reach a point of frustration where you just want to give up, try (if you can) either a Intel 520 series, or Samsung 830 series.

Yeah, my experience with SSDs was very similar right up until I bought the Intel 320 that I'm using now. It may not be the fastest drive in the world not that it matters much but it just works. I don't do anything different to this ssd and it just works. Its great.

Crisler · Mar 18, 2012, 08:58 AM

Now you see my experience has not been like this at all I have installed close to 50 SSDs for clients and use SSDs in all my home systems and by best friend does as well adn we have seen a single SSD failure in all that time. The us the experience has been amazing.

As for the branding about 75% of those SSDs are Kingston, with the majority of the rest being OCZ.

Swiftdeathz · Mar 18, 2012, 09:48 AM

I'm sorry to hear about your problems. One of the reasons I went with a Crucial M4 aside from the good price was the fact it is one of the more stable SSD's and doesn't use the sandforce controller (it uses a Marvel), so although it's not the fastest at compressed data writes, it is very stable and also doesn't bog down like some other drives when they begin have their capacity filled up.

I do see that the Petrol doesn't use sandforce, but another controller, but it still seems to have alot of bad reviews on the egg.

Guybo · Mar 18, 2012, 09:41 PM

Yeah when I got that Petrol drive there were very few reviews on the Egg. then when I got it and had my issues, I saw a GLUT of bad reviews come in. Too late.

The RMA replacement was that 120MB Agility drive.

The RMA replacement for that one will be a 850Watt PSU. I'm done with OCZ SSD's.

Hapatingjaky · Mar 18, 2012, 11:24 PM

Have you tried updating the FW to the drive yet?

There is nothing wrong with OCZ drives, my Vertex 3's having been burning along for over a year now without issue. No BSOD's or anything, just make sure you update the FW on the OCZ drives.

badboy · Mar 19, 2012, 06:05 AM

This is why I will always buy Intel ssd's.

KAC · Mar 19, 2012, 08:32 AM

BSOD on SSD = drive will completely die very soon. Follow advice here and get Intel.

bittermann · Mar 19, 2012, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KickAssCop

BSOD on SSD = drive will completely die very soon. Follow advice here and get Intel.

Do you ever post anything useful?

Update to latest firmware.
Try IDE mode instead of ACHI.
Turn of hard drive sleep in the OS or disable S3 in the bios.
If OC'ing set to stock speeds then install OS.
Try a different Sata port on the mobo.
If you have a Marvel sata port do not put it on that! Use AMD or Intel ports only.
If it's a 6GB SSD try setting the sata ports to 3GB speed only.

There are several things you can try before tossing in the towel...

Pesticide · Mar 19, 2012, 06:18 PM

guybo, i would actually reccomend you use the ssd as buffer cache drive for the functions your new mobo supports with the new intel technology your mobo supports

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/i...ching-review/2

It seems the buffering actually gets fasters after a couple of uses then the ssd drive itself, pretty impressive.

Guybo · Mar 19, 2012, 06:50 PM

Quote:

With the Z68 SATA controllers set to RAID (SRT won't work in AHCI or IDE modes) just install Windows 7

It was a nice thought though. I'm not dropping another $100 just to get Win7. Nah, I'm not going to mess with this thing anymore. I don't trust the drive.

Hapatingjaky · Mar 20, 2012, 07:58 AM

Lol just update the FW followed by a secure erase, replace the SSD cable as well. If using sata 6gb make sure you are using the Sara 6gb cable. Do not install the RST 11.5 drivers found on station drivers. Use the version just below that in AHCI, it will work just fine.

Guybo · Mar 21, 2012, 06:19 AM

OCZ sent me a message and they think the problem was the Intel AHCI driver I was using. In ATA mode the drive did work, so I may be stuck with this thing.

So my next best bet would be to use this as a SSD cache drive (Z68 chipset) which is supported in Vista, as it turns out. There's always a catch- the drives have to be in RAID mode. Is there any way to not screw up this installation of Vista I have now and set these disks up in Raid mode?

I'm so sick of installing Windows.

sunnyd · Mar 21, 2012, 11:47 AM

Man I feel your pain. I just had to reinstall win7 3 times on my backup rig but they were stupid mistakes on my part. I use Intel SSD's on both my rigs but setting up RAID should be releatively easy. For my gaming rig I just went into bios and made sure RAID was enabled, verified that the SSD's were on the right ports (since I have two RAID controllers I can use), then just setup my RAID. Oh yes - I updated the firmware for each drive individually - not because I had to but because there was one available and I wanted to make sure that they were up to date. Oh and my RAID refused to work with my 3TB internal storage drive until I updated the bios on the motherboard (P8p67 deluxe). I don't have any experience using the integrated 'cached' systems that they have now so not sure if that will throw another kink in things for you. Look at it this way - you will be installing windows onto SSD's so it should at least be a pretty fast install. You will most likely be slowed down by your DVD drive if that is what you are installing from.

Shadowless · Mar 21, 2012, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guybo

OCZ sent me a message and they think the problem was the Intel AHCI driver I was using. In ATA mode the drive did work, so I may be stuck with this thing.

So my next best bet would be to use this as a SSD cache drive (Z68 chipset) which is supported in Vista, as it turns out. There's always a catch- the drives have to be in RAID mode. Is there any way to not screw up this installation of Vista I have now and set these disks up in Raid mode?

I'm so sick of installing Windows.

unfortunately not, since it needs to be done at a hardware level.

I think your main problem is vista

/bitter guy who can't afford SSDs.

Alientank · Mar 21, 2012, 08:10 PM

I upgraded to an agility 3 240gig and it was flawless after doing a full format and fresh windows 7 install on it.

Guybo · Mar 22, 2012, 06:50 AM

Check this out- does this sound like it's doable to you guys?

Guybo · Mar 25, 2012, 05:00 PM

I did it. And it worked. I got my drives working in RAID mode without reinstalling Windows and enabled SSD caching and so far so good.

If i wake up tomorrow and it still works I'll be really happy LOL!

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Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	SSD Upgrade nightmare im ready to scream So I got an i5 2500k with an MSI Z68 G43 B3 MOBO and 3x2gb ddr3 I'm still using my gtx460 with and I put it in my case for my old system with the same 750 watt psu. Memtest passed the ram just fine. The prob started when i installed vista 64 on the first OCZ 128GB Petrol ssd. Turns out the Petrol drive was bad. After i got it iI saw a lot of bad reviews with that drive and im sure i just got a dud. So i got an Agility 3 128gb ssd as aan rma replacement. I installed vista 64 on that and life was good for one day. I installed the ahci drivers correctly it was smoking fastt and benched near promised speeds. Then I left the PC on overnight i woke up and the thing wasnt responsive. I had to kill power to then it off. Since then it has not worked right. BSOD or freezes. Sometimes itll BSOD when it hasn't even loaded windows sometimes after 20 minutes. Sometimes itll load ok then slow down after a few minutes and finally come to a stop. The mobo bios and ssd firmware are the latest. I've tried lots oof stuff but im open to suggestions. Wtf is wrong with thia system?

Guybo's System Specs
Motherboard	MSI Z68a-G43 (B3)
CPU	Core i5 2500k
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Memory	8GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHZ
Cooling Solution	Zalman CNPS9900A
Display	3x 22" Acer monitors
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Hard-Drives	1.5 TB Seagate hdd
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Motherboard	Asus Crosshair Formula Z
CPU	AMD FS 9590
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Display	Asus 27" VE278Q
Soundcard & Speakers	SoundBlaster Zx
Hard-Drives	OCZ Vertex 4 240GB, 2 Seagate Baracuda 320GB in RAID 0, WD Black 1TB
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Case	Corsair Obsidian Series 550D
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Guybo's System Specs
Motherboard	MSI Z68a-G43 (B3)
CPU	Core i5 2500k
Graphics	HIS IceQx2 R9 290x
Memory	8GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHZ
Cooling Solution	Zalman CNPS9900A
Display	3x 22" Acer monitors
Soundcard & Speakers	Logitech Z906 5.1 and G430 headset
Hard-Drives	1.5 TB Seagate hdd
Power Supply	Termaltake SmartM Series 850W
Case	Alienware
Input Devices	T500RS with Ricmotec load cell, Logitech Rumble Pad 2,G15, G500
Operating System	Win7
Extra Info	Old Alienware C2D system, upgraded to new Core i5 system

Mar 17, 2012, 10:41 PM	#4
Ristogod Semper Vigilare Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: MN Posts: 13,227	I have used a number of SSDs now since they started becoming popular. I've had situations very similar to yours. Replacement after replacement would result in issue followed by more issues. My advice is to stick to reliable drives. When I started using Intel drives, the experience was much better. Samsung, while never leading the performance charts tends to have fairly reliable SSDs also. I recently replaced my Indilinx based Patriot Torqx drive with a Samsung 830 256GB. I'm not saying this is what you need to do, but if you reach a point of frustration where you just want to give up, try (if you can) either a Intel 520 series, or Samsung 830 series. __________________ My Dealings Heatware eBay Amazon

Mar 17, 2012, 04:34 PM	#3
Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	I had read something about that too. In windows and in the bios I disabled aany sleep functions. But that was after the morning when it first crashed. Is it possible that it went to sleep that night and that damaged the drive?

Ristogod's System Specs
Motherboard	GA-AB350M-Gaming 3
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
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Case	Lian Li PC-7hx
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Mar 18, 2012, 08:58 AM	#6
Crisler SAPPHIRE PR REP Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Carbondale, IL Posts: 7,909	Now you see my experience has not been like this at all I have installed close to 50 SSDs for clients and use SSDs in all my home systems and by best friend does as well adn we have seen a single SSD failure in all that time. The us the experience has been amazing. As for the branding about 75% of those SSDs are Kingston, with the majority of the rest being OCZ. __________________ Edward Crisler SAPPHIRE NA PR Representative #SapphireNation

Crisler's System Specs
Motherboard	GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5
CPU	Intel i7 4790K
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Memory	16 Gig AMD DDR3 2400
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Display	BenQ XL2730Z
Soundcard & Speakers	Sennheiser HD518
Hard-Drives	AMD Radeon 480 SSD
Power Supply	Seasonic X 750
Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini
Input Devices	Logitech G710+ & G502
Operating System	Windows 10

Mar 18, 2012, 09:48 AM	#7
Swiftdeathz 7870 CFX Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NYC/NJ, USA Posts: 541	I'm sorry to hear about your problems. One of the reasons I went with a Crucial M4 aside from the good price was the fact it is one of the more stable SSD's and doesn't use the sandforce controller (it uses a Marvel), so although it's not the fastest at compressed data writes, it is very stable and also doesn't bog down like some other drives when they begin have their capacity filled up. I do see that the Petrol doesn't use sandforce, but another controller, but it still seems to have alot of bad reviews on the egg. __________________ Intel i5 3570k \|\| Sapphire HD 7870 OC \|\| Asrock Z77 Extreme4 \|\| 8GB DDR3 G.SKILL \|\| Seasonic X750 Intel Core2Duo E8400 \|\| PowerColor HD 5450 \|\| Gigabyte P35-DS3L \|\| 4GB DDR2 G.SKILL \|\| Enermax 431W [email protected]

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Mar 18, 2012, 09:41 PM	#8
Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	Yeah when I got that Petrol drive there were very few reviews on the Egg. then when I got it and had my issues, I saw a GLUT of bad reviews come in. Too late. The RMA replacement was that 120MB Agility drive. The RMA replacement for that one will be a 850Watt PSU. I'm done with OCZ SSD's.

Mar 18, 2012, 11:24 PM	#9
Hapatingjaky Maximum Disappointment Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Ukraine Posts: 10,455	Have you tried updating the FW to the drive yet? There is nothing wrong with OCZ drives, my Vertex 3's having been burning along for over a year now without issue. No BSOD's or anything, just make sure you update the FW on the OCZ drives. __________________ Intel Core i9 10900K @ 5.2GHz, Asus Maximus XII Apex, GSkill Trident-Z Royal DDR4 3200MHz 32GB CAS11, Asus Strix 3080Ti OC, Creative Labs SXFI Theater, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB, Corsair AXI 1500i PSU, ThermalTake View 71, Corsair K95 Platinum RGB, Corsair Dark Core RGB SE, Acer Predator X34, Windows 10 Professional X64

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Mar 19, 2012, 06:05 AM	#10
badboy Merc with a mouth Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Sweden Posts: 16,315	This is why I will always buy Intel ssd's. __________________ *”Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”* - Albert Einstein *"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."* - Richard Dawkins *"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."* - Ben Franklin *"I'll happily keep risking it and enjoy my life"* - Doozer Luke: "God will make sure that evil gets punished" Jason: "Oh yeah, then explain Europe to me?" - True Blood

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Mar 19, 2012, 08:32 AM	#11
KAC Whatever Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lahore Posts: 67,117	BSOD on SSD = drive will completely die very soon. Follow advice here and get Intel.

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Motherboard	MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk
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Soundcard & Speakers	HDMI
Hard-Drives	Crucial C300 SSD
Case	Thermaltake
Operating System	Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Mar 19, 2012, 06:18 PM	#13
Pesticide Radeon R300 Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 148	guybo, i would actually reccomend you use the ssd as buffer cache drive for the functions your new mobo supports with the new intel technology your mobo supports http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/i...ching-review/2 It seems the buffering actually gets fasters after a couple of uses then the ssd drive itself, pretty impressive. __________________ http://www.twitch.tv/pesticide live gaming of the better games and mods on the net

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Mar 20, 2012, 07:58 AM	#15
Hapatingjaky Maximum Disappointment Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Ukraine Posts: 10,455	Lol just update the FW followed by a secure erase, replace the SSD cable as well. If using sata 6gb make sure you are using the Sara 6gb cable. Do not install the RST 11.5 drivers found on station drivers. Use the version just below that in AHCI, it will work just fine. __________________ Intel Core i9 10900K @ 5.2GHz, Asus Maximus XII Apex, GSkill Trident-Z Royal DDR4 3200MHz 32GB CAS11, Asus Strix 3080Ti OC, Creative Labs SXFI Theater, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB, Corsair AXI 1500i PSU, ThermalTake View 71, Corsair K95 Platinum RGB, Corsair Dark Core RGB SE, Acer Predator X34, Windows 10 Professional X64

Mar 21, 2012, 06:19 AM	#16
Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	OCZ sent me a message and they think the problem was the Intel AHCI driver I was using. In ATA mode the drive did work, so I may be stuck with this thing. So my next best bet would be to use this as a SSD cache drive (Z68 chipset) which is supported in Vista, as it turns out. There's always a catch- the drives have to be in RAID mode. Is there any way to not screw up this installation of Vista I have now and set these disks up in Raid mode? I'm so sick of installing Windows.

Mar 21, 2012, 11:47 AM	#17
sunnyd Where's my Starcraft 3? Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 645	Man I feel your pain. I just had to reinstall win7 3 times on my backup rig but they were stupid mistakes on my part. I use Intel SSD's on both my rigs but setting up RAID should be releatively easy. For my gaming rig I just went into bios and made sure RAID was enabled, verified that the SSD's were on the right ports (since I have two RAID controllers I can use), then just setup my RAID. Oh yes - I updated the firmware for each drive individually - not because I had to but because there was one available and I wanted to make sure that they were up to date. Oh and my RAID refused to work with my 3TB internal storage drive until I updated the bios on the motherboard (P8p67 deluxe). I don't have any experience using the integrated 'cached' systems that they have now so not sure if that will throw another kink in things for you. Look at it this way - you will be installing windows onto SSD's so it should at least be a pretty fast install. You will most likely be slowed down by your DVD drive if that is what you are installing from. Last edited by sunnyd : Mar 21, 2012 at 11:55 AM.

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Operating System	Windows 7 Pro x64

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Motherboard	MSI MAG Z590 Tomahawk
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Input Devices	Logitech G413, Razer Viper Ultimate
Operating System	Windows 10 Pro

Mar 22, 2012, 06:50 AM	#20
Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	Check this out- does this sound like it's doable to you guys?

Mar 25, 2012, 05:00 PM	#21
Guybo Anonymous Proletariat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Big Guava Posts: 3,063	I did it. And it worked. I got my drives working in RAID mode without reinstalling Windows and enabled SSD caching and so far so good. If i wake up tomorrow and it still works I'll be really happy LOL!

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