Weird SSD experience, maybe bad and can reformat?

Grimjack

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Hey all,

I turn on my comp, load into a webpage (youtube) about to click on a video when all of a sudden my screen just freezes. Everything is frozen and I'm not even able to shutdown through the windows button.

I have two drives, main was the boot and it's a HDD, while the second was an OCZ 120gb SSD. Now whenever I try to restart I would get as far as the bios brand screen, then as I load into windows (I have the gui set off in the boot up process) no logo but instead I get a single sliver of horizontal artifacts at the very top of the monitor. My computer will not load past this, I think it's my HDD so i take it out and leave my SSD to boot. Everything is going okay, I reinstall mobo drivers, but as soon as I reinstall gfx drivers and start browsing again same thing.

I already ordered a new SSD, plugged it in and am currently good to go with the one SSD. Is it possible to reformat the SSD and i'd work again or is it toast? And why would the SSD prevent windows from loading if the boot was on the HDD?

TL;DR: HDD is main, SSD is second, windows wouldn't boot past screen because non-boot drive SSD is bad? And if so can I reformat bad SSD for it to work correctly?

P.S. I had noticed over the past few months after starting the computer it would take a minute or two to recognize the SSD. Other times I had to completely restart the computer again for it to register.
 
Solution
if the ssd has a firmware issue. it can hang the sata chipset till it times out.
try checking the drive firmware see if there an update tool. also if there nothing on the drive you need do a secure erase to see if it fixes the ssd issues.
if the ssd has a firmware issue. it can hang the sata chipset till it times out.
try checking the drive firmware see if there an update tool. also if there nothing on the drive you need do a secure erase to see if it fixes the ssd issues.
 
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Grimjack

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Thank you so much Smorizio, I followed your directions and now I'm running my SSD again!