I have Intel 330 120GB and while it has rarely acted up (BIOS fails to recognize it once every few months, leading to cable fiddling), it started showing some real trouble yesterday.
The system wouldn't boot (displaying a black screen without any bios messages) and restart eventually, or if it did load Windows, it would hard freeze soon after boot up. Windows would not respond to any input and would require a hard restart.
This would continue until I disconnected the data cable from the SSD (but keep the power cable), start the system for ~30 minutes, plug the data cable back on and restart the computer. At this point it would boot and work normally until the next shut down.
After doing the same thing today, everything seemed fine until I tried to load Dota 2, at which point the system froze again and required a hard restart. Had to unplug/let it run/plug the cable back in and same thing happened when I tried to launch Just Cause 2.
To fix this, I decided to reinstall the graphics drivers. I uninstalled and installed the latest AMD Catalyst, but it failed due to some errors. Somewhere during a few reboots and attempts to uninstall/install the drivers, the system effectively shit itself and does not detect any graphics drivers at all, now refusing to boot even after doing the ssd unplug/plug trick. When loading Windows, at one point it shows BSoD for a split second and restarts itself.
I can now only boot Windows in safe mode. Back when it was working, Intel SSD toolbox showed no errors.
System specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD Athlon II X4 630
Intel 330 120GB
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB
Radeon HD 5770
Asus M4A78T-E
8GB RAM
Is this problem exclusively with a failing SSD? Could this be a problem with the graphics card? Maybe both SSD and graphics? Motherboard, OS? Are the problems unrelated?
The system wouldn't boot (displaying a black screen without any bios messages) and restart eventually, or if it did load Windows, it would hard freeze soon after boot up. Windows would not respond to any input and would require a hard restart.
This would continue until I disconnected the data cable from the SSD (but keep the power cable), start the system for ~30 minutes, plug the data cable back on and restart the computer. At this point it would boot and work normally until the next shut down.
After doing the same thing today, everything seemed fine until I tried to load Dota 2, at which point the system froze again and required a hard restart. Had to unplug/let it run/plug the cable back in and same thing happened when I tried to launch Just Cause 2.
To fix this, I decided to reinstall the graphics drivers. I uninstalled and installed the latest AMD Catalyst, but it failed due to some errors. Somewhere during a few reboots and attempts to uninstall/install the drivers, the system effectively shit itself and does not detect any graphics drivers at all, now refusing to boot even after doing the ssd unplug/plug trick. When loading Windows, at one point it shows BSoD for a split second and restarts itself.
I can now only boot Windows in safe mode. Back when it was working, Intel SSD toolbox showed no errors.
System specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD Athlon II X4 630
Intel 330 120GB
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB
Radeon HD 5770
Asus M4A78T-E
8GB RAM
Is this problem exclusively with a failing SSD? Could this be a problem with the graphics card? Maybe both SSD and graphics? Motherboard, OS? Are the problems unrelated?
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