I recently purchased a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I was doing some general PC upgrades, swapping my old HDD memory over to the SSD, putting everything into a new case. I partition-copied all the data from my old HDD into the SSD. Everything was working fine, I had the OS on the new SSD, running entirely independent from the old hard drive. It worked for the better part of two days, until just before a friend visited. I shut off the PC in hopes of showing off how nice the new startup time was. He got here and I booted up the PC.
Nothing.
I had not unplugged or changed anything about the PC since the 20 minutes prior when it had been working fine. It is stuck on the "ASUS - Press DEL to access UEFI BIOS." And proceeds no further. Pressing the DEL key does nothing. It is glued to that screen.
I plug in the old HDD - Same thing. This is the odd part - If I unplug the SATA cable from the SSD and leave the old HDD plugged in as normal, it boots up just fine. However, if the SATA is in the SSD, it will not boot up. Even if I start up through the HDD normally and plug the SSD in when the PC is already on, it crashes, giving the CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED Error. I interchanged the SATA cables and the same thing happened.
I had assumed the SSD faulty at that point. I attempted the fix of keeping just the power to the SSD on, not the SATA in, for a half an hour with the PC on, waiting a half-hour to turn off the computer and unplug (repeating it twice). Absolutely nothing.
I tried putting my windows disk into my disk drive, along with the SSD being plugged in. I get the same issue as prior, "Press DEL for Bios", which proceeds to not do anything upon pressing the DEL key.
I have spent a total of around four hours, taking apart and rebuilding the PC. It seems that having the SSD plugged in at all causes errors. I am not sure if the SSD is dead - and if it is, why did it die two days after I purchased it? - or if there is some other issue I am not aware of.
PC SPECS BELOW
Motherboard - ASUSTek P8Z77-V LX
Processor - Interl Core i5-3570K CPU
Graphics Card - Nvidia Geforce 960
SSD (Not working) - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
HDD - WDC WD1500AHFD-00RAR4 150GB
Nothing.
I had not unplugged or changed anything about the PC since the 20 minutes prior when it had been working fine. It is stuck on the "ASUS - Press DEL to access UEFI BIOS." And proceeds no further. Pressing the DEL key does nothing. It is glued to that screen.
I plug in the old HDD - Same thing. This is the odd part - If I unplug the SATA cable from the SSD and leave the old HDD plugged in as normal, it boots up just fine. However, if the SATA is in the SSD, it will not boot up. Even if I start up through the HDD normally and plug the SSD in when the PC is already on, it crashes, giving the CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED Error. I interchanged the SATA cables and the same thing happened.
I had assumed the SSD faulty at that point. I attempted the fix of keeping just the power to the SSD on, not the SATA in, for a half an hour with the PC on, waiting a half-hour to turn off the computer and unplug (repeating it twice). Absolutely nothing.
I tried putting my windows disk into my disk drive, along with the SSD being plugged in. I get the same issue as prior, "Press DEL for Bios", which proceeds to not do anything upon pressing the DEL key.
I have spent a total of around four hours, taking apart and rebuilding the PC. It seems that having the SSD plugged in at all causes errors. I am not sure if the SSD is dead - and if it is, why did it die two days after I purchased it? - or if there is some other issue I am not aware of.
PC SPECS BELOW
Motherboard - ASUSTek P8Z77-V LX
Processor - Interl Core i5-3570K CPU
Graphics Card - Nvidia Geforce 960
SSD (Not working) - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
HDD - WDC WD1500AHFD-00RAR4 150GB
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