I've had my OCZ Agility 3 for three days now. After I initially received it I installed it, set it as my boot drive, and set my WD terabyte IDE drive I was previously using as my boot drive as another storage device. I installed Windows but had not set it to AHCI. I immediately started having crashes and was unable to even run AS SSD Benchmark without freezing. I decided to just reformat after setting my bios to AHCI and reinstalled Windows 7.
In the past 24 hours my computer has crashed 4-5 times. Sometimes I'll get a BSOD, others not. I've checked my event viewer and notice that I get an event 41, kernel-power error at the time where it freezes, but prior to that only BTHUSB errors that my bluetooth keyboard isn't responding to commands. After my computer freezes I am unable to restart immediately since my bios will not recognize that my SSD is installed. I have to unplug the power, wait a minute, and then my computer will be able to start up as normally. Crashing has occurred when playing a game, running an antivirus, when installing Direct X, transferring some files between my terabyte and SSD, and running AS SSD benchmarks.
My OCZ Agility 3 is on the newest firmware. I had daemon tools installed and removed it after reading that can cause BSODs. I'm running out of ideas and am on the verge of returning the drive and buying a more expensive more reliable one instead. If anyone can help it'd be much appreciated.
I've also noticed that under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager there are 5 ATA Channel devices listed. I'm not sure if this is abnormal or not. The only SATA devices I have installed are my terabyte and my SSD
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In the past 24 hours my computer has crashed 4-5 times. Sometimes I'll get a BSOD, others not. I've checked my event viewer and notice that I get an event 41, kernel-power error at the time where it freezes, but prior to that only BTHUSB errors that my bluetooth keyboard isn't responding to commands. After my computer freezes I am unable to restart immediately since my bios will not recognize that my SSD is installed. I have to unplug the power, wait a minute, and then my computer will be able to start up as normally. Crashing has occurred when playing a game, running an antivirus, when installing Direct X, transferring some files between my terabyte and SSD, and running AS SSD benchmarks.
My OCZ Agility 3 is on the newest firmware. I had daemon tools installed and removed it after reading that can cause BSODs. I'm running out of ideas and am on the verge of returning the drive and buying a more expensive more reliable one instead. If anyone can help it'd be much appreciated.
I've also noticed that under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in device manager there are 5 ATA Channel devices listed. I'm not sure if this is abnormal or not. The only SATA devices I have installed are my terabyte and my SSD
http://s7.postimage.org/5hfsfelff/img_0014.jpg
http://s18.postimage.org/udzyl7hqh/IMG_0013.jpg