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Hi, I have a new build that's been giving me trouble from day one. I have quite a bit of experience building computers in general, but this build has many firsts for me.
a mushkin chronos 120gb ssd
Formatted as GPT
using EFI to dual boot win7 and ubuntu (not sure what version... 12-ish?)

So sometimes bios sees the drive and sometimes not. I have tried replacing the sata cable and switching ports.
Until recently, I was having to manually choose the os from bios becase the efi boot was not configured properly. Thanks to a nifty little program called rEFInd, I managed to get that working, but still the drive is only detected sometimes.
I am currently doing a disk image with a live cd and dd so I can try updating the firmware. My next step is to update the mobo bios.

The thing is, It seems like the drive dissapearing is a recent issue. I have (manually in bios...) booted into windows and ubuntu several times and once booted things usually run fine. I did get a windows error message about a problem communicating with a device - "an unexpected I/O error has occured"
 
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I have.
currently it is working, I managed to get the firmware updated, so hopefully that takes care of it. One possible factor is that the boot partition isn't the first partition...
1- ubuntu | 2 - boot | 3 - ms system junk | 4 win7
 
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yeah...
I still need to try updating the bios.
I guess it's probably a hardware issue - either the drive or the mobo, but because I've had so much trouble getting things configured, I still wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that i'm using GPT and EFI on an SSD - all new to me.
 
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it seems to be a loose connection at the drive end. either the cable coming slightly off, or the internal connection... I guess i'll try taping it. I'm sure I could warranty it, but hopefully I can avoid that
 
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yeah, I probably should, but if I can fix it with tape, then I don't have to wait for a replacement.
It's my studio rig and I have already lost so much time dealing with this issue that I don't really want to lose any more time to it.
And it seems like maybe a design flaw anyway - there is no clip or any mechanism for holding the cable on the drive. If that is the whole issue then a new drive won't be any better.
The placement of the drive in the case and the routing of the cables are a factor too, but it wouldn't be an issue if there was a clip.
(not that I am 100% sure that is the issue, but it seems pretty likely at this point)
 
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