- Sep 21, 2012
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Hello,
I'm at the end of my rope trying to troubleshoot this poor PC I build back in April.
The PC worked great at first, but a month in I came home to the Windows Boot Manager up on the screen. The BIOS wouldn't detect the SSD anymore (an Adata S510 120gb) no matter what I tried. When everything *had* been working, I'd updated both the mobo, BIOS and SSD drivers.
So SSD1 went off to RMA. I figured I'd buy another identical and RAID them when the replacement came. Installed the new SSD, updated the drivers and it worked fine... for a month and a half then I came home to a black screen with the white Windows arrow but everything was frozen, no response from keyboard or mouse and on reboot? I couldn't get it detected by the BIOS. An older HDD went it (SATA) and of course no problems there.
At that point I started thinking it was other hardware issues maybe affecting the SDDs. I'd carried the PSU from my old machine over, so I bought a new one. And for good measure I had the mobo replaced as well.
The replacement for the SDD1 arrived a week later, so I installed it and everything seemed ok. Reinstalled everything, updated everything and it ran from May 'til last night. Because I woke up this morning to the Windows Boot Manager again.
So at this point I'm at the end of my rope. I'm tired of spending so much time reinstalling everything from OS on down.
Did I miss anything obvious that might be causing the SSD failures? I mean, what are the chances really that I've tried to work with 3 lemons in a row? I'd assume fairly low... (sigh)
Any help/suggestions GREATLY appreciated!
I'm at the end of my rope trying to troubleshoot this poor PC I build back in April.
The PC worked great at first, but a month in I came home to the Windows Boot Manager up on the screen. The BIOS wouldn't detect the SSD anymore (an Adata S510 120gb) no matter what I tried. When everything *had* been working, I'd updated both the mobo, BIOS and SSD drivers.
So SSD1 went off to RMA. I figured I'd buy another identical and RAID them when the replacement came. Installed the new SSD, updated the drivers and it worked fine... for a month and a half then I came home to a black screen with the white Windows arrow but everything was frozen, no response from keyboard or mouse and on reboot? I couldn't get it detected by the BIOS. An older HDD went it (SATA) and of course no problems there.
At that point I started thinking it was other hardware issues maybe affecting the SDDs. I'd carried the PSU from my old machine over, so I bought a new one. And for good measure I had the mobo replaced as well.
The replacement for the SDD1 arrived a week later, so I installed it and everything seemed ok. Reinstalled everything, updated everything and it ran from May 'til last night. Because I woke up this morning to the Windows Boot Manager again.
So at this point I'm at the end of my rope. I'm tired of spending so much time reinstalling everything from OS on down.
Did I miss anything obvious that might be causing the SSD failures? I mean, what are the chances really that I've tried to work with 3 lemons in a row? I'd assume fairly low... (sigh)
Any help/suggestions GREATLY appreciated!
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