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New mSATA drive BSOD's win 7 :-(

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March 26, 2014 1:57:07 AM

Hi Guys,

I have a clevo W370ST laptop with an OCZ vertex 4 SSD as boot drive, and a Seagate 750gb secondary HDD.

I noticed I have a spare slot for an mSATA card, so just installed a crucial M500 into it.

All my experiences with HDD/SSDs have been good and super simple, so this has vexed me a bit...

Initially, I used acronis (as I had it installed) to create the disk and partition as a logical drive, as I intend to only use it to seperate games from the 750gb mechanical drive.

The system BSOD'd with the error:

IRQL_GT_ZERO_AT_SYSTEM_SERVICE
0000000x4A

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardwar...(v=vs.85).aspx

so I rebooted, did the process again, and got the same error. The mSATA drive shows up in the BIOS fine, and obviously shows up in acronis.

After this, I decided to use windows disk management, in case something was up with acronis. I deleted the partition and started again. This time, i got through the wizard, assigned drive letter, quick format etc. and got the same BSOD.

Just had a look at the sticky on the forum to check if I was doing anything wrong, doesn't seem so.

At no point did the drive show up in windows 'computer' though it shows up in device manager as 'this device is working properly'

The only generic advice I can find through google is that it may be a driver clash? someone reported deleting and reinstalling all USB drivers solved the issue, most advice is to delete all drivers (I assume not MB ones?) and reinstall everything?

As i'm a bit new to laptops, I'm not doing something daft, there's no rule of thumb you can't run 2.5" drives and mSATA together etc. ?!

cheers,

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April 7, 2014 7:49:15 PM

have you tried formatting it in safe mode?
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October 7, 2014 5:10:30 AM

To add, I fixed this issue by updating Intel RST drivers with a full reinstall of the software, then everything worked a treat, seems it was just way out of date and the updater failed to work.
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