SSD working last night, not working today.

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This PC has been working for months now with no problems. Today all of a sudden the PC doesn't start up. No power. We replace the PSU with a working one and it turns on! Horrah.

But then it doesn't boot, we get to a black screen after bios and a message saying No bootable device found, yada yada push any key, you guys know which one.

Ok so I'm thinking, ok maybe we had a power surge last night and somehow the computer was zapped? So I take the SSD and stick it into my external drive dock on my other PC. Surprisingly - it works. I'm able to open the contents of the drive, explore around, everything works fine - as an external drive. Once I turn off my backup PC, and install this SSD as my bootup drive, the problem rears its head again. Once again, I get the no bootable device found.

I've tried a few things on the original PC; changing the storage settings from IDE to AHCI. It was originally on IDE when I booted up this PC today, not sure if this is the setting it was always on because I'm looking elsewhere and people are saying to use AHCI for SSDs. *shrug* Tried that, tried moving my SATA connection around to different sata ports, using different sata cables, nothing.

I'm at a loss here, any tips or pointers would be helpful. The board is an older ASUS model mobo, I can't remember the name now but if its important I'll go check for you guys. I'm about to run a windows repair with my win7 disk, IF I can find it.
 
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OK final update:

After getting so close to actually booting (I was able to see the windows logo before the bsod), I decided to change the boot settings again just to try, and I switched from AHCI to IDE again, and it worked.

So conclusion:

Somehow, the harddrive got royally screwed from something, had to run chkdsk, bootmanager fixes, and disk partition checks to get it to show up as a drive. It showed in BIOS, but wouldn't actually boot. Ran windows 7 installation disk, repair, command prompt, run bootmanager, element not found. Run disk part to get the disk of my choice active, then bootmanager works. Restart, get bsod, change storage setting from AHCI to IDE and viola.

So i'm set now. Thanks for the help.
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Thanks for the reply, but I tried it, didn't fix my problem. Here are some pictures :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dknb1zpm72p9tzi/2013-08-31%2021.39.24.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6ivaiaqwcg5cd0/2013-08-31%2021.39.36.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcpyqel4ebecr0y/2013-08-31%2021.40.04.jpg

First pic - operating system isn't shown, load drivers does nothing. Also - load drivers lets me browse the CD for drivers - AS WELL as the SSD. The SSD shows up, I can browse through it, if I had the driver on it, I could choose it.

Second Pic - Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) - what gives? Because of the no driver issue I suppose..

Third pic - No valid partition. Now, the scan is extremely fast, this is the only issue windows will spend time on, and it doesn't work. After I close this, the computer restarts, if I take out the disk it won't boot to windows. If I leave in the disk, it goes back to the beginning of the windows installation setup, showing me that it's not actually fixing anything.

Now my question is - if I were to get a driver for my SSD, would that fix it when I go to choose the operating system to repair? (The SSD Is a Kingston HyperX 3k SSD 120 gb)

Edit: I'm not seeing any firmware updates or drivers at all, for the SSD.
http://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/products?model=SH103S3
 
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If you installed originally windows with the sata mode set to IDE(not recommended, you lose trim) then you must keep it there.
Windows will not have the drivers installed to let you switch to ahci mode.

I have heard of some ssd's needing a firmware update to fix some problems that sound similar.
Beware, you risk losing your data with a firmware flash.
 
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Still no updates here.

Edit: I lied, after a bit of research, and then a bit of playing with the command prompt and the afflicted PC, I tried fixboot and fixmbr and... they didn't fix, instead I got some kind of error, "Element not found". So after researching how to fix this new error, I started up diskpart in the command prompt using the Windows 7 disk, set the disk partition to active and restarted.

On restart I get a boot mgr error instead of what I was getting before. So its finding a bootable device now, just can't boot.

Back into windows 7 setup disk, and we found the windows operating system appearing in the list now. From not showing up or being recognized, to now being in the list, huge change. I proceed, let windows do as it pleases and restart.

Still - its not getting to Windows. The auto-repair fixed an MBR issue, but the computer still isn't booting properly. I tried doing the bootrec fixes myself with the command prompt, and they work this time. Restart again, no error, windows is booting, and ... blue screen flash.

Here's the blue screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yflbym4qlqn8wif/2013-09-01%2011.52.51.jpg
Inaccessible boot device error? I dunno, thats what google is saying.

Just updating you guys here.
 
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OK final update:

After getting so close to actually booting (I was able to see the windows logo before the bsod), I decided to change the boot settings again just to try, and I switched from AHCI to IDE again, and it worked.

So conclusion:

Somehow, the harddrive got royally screwed from something, had to run chkdsk, bootmanager fixes, and disk partition checks to get it to show up as a drive. It showed in BIOS, but wouldn't actually boot. Ran windows 7 installation disk, repair, command prompt, run bootmanager, element not found. Run disk part to get the disk of my choice active, then bootmanager works. Restart, get bsod, change storage setting from AHCI to IDE and viola.

So i'm set now. Thanks for the help.
 
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