Hi guys,
First time poster here!
I have a really really strange problem. A few weeks ago I took the plunge and upgraded to a Samsung evo 850 SSD.
To start with I put windows 8.1 on the SSD and all seemed well for a few days. Then, I would experience times where the computer would just freeze and hang and a hard reset was needed. After the reset it wouldn't be able to find the SSD in the bios or when it booted and resulted in a boot disk failure, insert disk or something along those lines and press enter.
I have tried this both in IDE and is it AHCI? And it makes no difference at all.
I have had the SSD in there on its own to make sure it wasnt the old hard drive that was conflicting with the SSD.
So, I figured I would install windows on the old Western Digital spinner, with the SSD just there for games and applications.Everything is fine like this with the SSD working with no hang ups, fast loading apps and everything else.
The whole reason I bought the SSD was so that I could whack windows on there and improve start up times and such.
I am at a total loss and really not sure what the problem could be. I have tried the SSD in another computer and it does the same thing. Hangs and freezes with windows installed but works fine without when its used as a storage drive!
I have tried all of the SATA ports, changed the SATA cable, removed the DVD drive incase it was faulty. Changed graphic cards, memory and mostly everything I could think off.
The motherboard I am using is quite old, so my first thought was that it might be that, but with a quick look on the web, others seem to have no problems with the same set up as me.
Heres my system specs
Intel core i3 540
Windows 8.1 (same things happen with windows 10 preview)
4GB ram
Gigabyte h55m-s2 rv1.2 (Bios are f4 and are the latest for this motherboard)
Radeon R7 250x card (changed this from a gtx 550TI and a GTX 750 and same results)
570W Trust PSU
Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD
Western 300GB Hard drive.
Any help or insight would be really helpful. I must admit it is a strange one and not really sure.
Thanks for reading!
First time poster here!
I have a really really strange problem. A few weeks ago I took the plunge and upgraded to a Samsung evo 850 SSD.
To start with I put windows 8.1 on the SSD and all seemed well for a few days. Then, I would experience times where the computer would just freeze and hang and a hard reset was needed. After the reset it wouldn't be able to find the SSD in the bios or when it booted and resulted in a boot disk failure, insert disk or something along those lines and press enter.
I have tried this both in IDE and is it AHCI? And it makes no difference at all.
I have had the SSD in there on its own to make sure it wasnt the old hard drive that was conflicting with the SSD.
So, I figured I would install windows on the old Western Digital spinner, with the SSD just there for games and applications.Everything is fine like this with the SSD working with no hang ups, fast loading apps and everything else.
The whole reason I bought the SSD was so that I could whack windows on there and improve start up times and such.
I am at a total loss and really not sure what the problem could be. I have tried the SSD in another computer and it does the same thing. Hangs and freezes with windows installed but works fine without when its used as a storage drive!
I have tried all of the SATA ports, changed the SATA cable, removed the DVD drive incase it was faulty. Changed graphic cards, memory and mostly everything I could think off.
The motherboard I am using is quite old, so my first thought was that it might be that, but with a quick look on the web, others seem to have no problems with the same set up as me.
Heres my system specs
Intel core i3 540
Windows 8.1 (same things happen with windows 10 preview)
4GB ram
Gigabyte h55m-s2 rv1.2 (Bios are f4 and are the latest for this motherboard)
Radeon R7 250x card (changed this from a gtx 550TI and a GTX 750 and same results)
570W Trust PSU
Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD
Western 300GB Hard drive.
Any help or insight would be really helpful. I must admit it is a strange one and not really sure.
Thanks for reading!
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