Windows 7 freezes at startup with SSD (Samsung 840 Pro 256Go) as system boot drive

Arcondo

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I hit my head against the wall without any tangible result. Few weeks ago I bought an SSD drive in order to boost my 3 years laptop (Acer Aspire 5745G 720QM / 16Go RAM / Primary HDD : Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256Go / Windows 7 Ultimate). So I reinstalled a fresh "windows 7 Ulimate N" version and then my problems started :

- Up until now, each time I power on my laptop, it freezes and the only way is to hard shutdown it. So the "game" continues 4 or 5 times before I get into my desktop.

- I suspected a driver (display, sound, Intel (cheapset, AHCI) and I remove them to see if I'm able to fix this : No positive result.

- Then I decided to reinstall it once again and I didn't install any added software for checking whether is it fixed or not : No positive result

- I went googling and I saw that a lot of people having the same troubles so I tried to follow some solutions but still no result.

Now, I suspect that ACER and/or SAMSUNG know the problem but no fix no communication, nothing. They are just leaving people on their own.

Probably it is the last time I'm buying something from ACER.

Any insight, idea or solution to recommend ?

Thanks for your feedback.
 

dmitche3

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Do yourself a favor. When installing Windows create a secondary admin account. When installing software NEVER accept installations for all users if possible. Then when problems like this happen you can determine if it is a user-thing from installed software or if the issue lies in the OS/hardware. I know that this saved me the other day when my Smartdoctor software started causing (IOMAP64) crashes.

When you says that it freezes, is it before you get a chance to login or after?

Have you done all of the Windows 7 updates? Might want to look for one for SSDs that may cause problems rather than fix them. :(

Do you still have the old HD and does it work? Perhaps you might want to try doing a copy of the old drive to the SSD using the software provided by Samsung and see if the problem is resolved. That might show if it is an installation/Windows 7 issue. Try booting before installing any drivers that are not 100% necessary to run on the SSD first.