Hi there folks, been lurking for a while and finally decided on making an account on here - admittedly, because I'm in need of some help.
I have my own custom built rig, have had it for over a year now. It has never presented any serious issues up until recently; my system started freezing up randomly and only a hard shutdown and reboot would fix it.
I have 2 drives, a Corsair M4 which I'm using pretty much only as a boot drive, and a Spinpoint which I use for all my storage, from music to my Steam games.
Long story short, I narrowed the problem down to my SSD; installing my OS on the Spinpoint and booting from it has made it stable again, with zero crashes in the last few hours (as opposed to the hourly hang with my SSD).
So now I'm left with the question, is my SSD the actual problem, or the associated controller? Honestly, I figure I could just try the other controllers and repeat the process over and over again, were it not that getting to those other cables would be a major PITA. I'm hoping somebody here has had a similar issue or is more knowledgeable in the matter, so I can solve the problem immediately instead of having to go through the ol' trial and error - nor would I want to spend cash on a new SSD if it's the controller that's causing issues.
A few facts:
- My SSD used SATA3, on an AsRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard.
- Windows repair did nothing
- Complete format with a fresh Windows install did nothing
- Diskchecks all turned up clean
- After every crash, I would have to turn off my system completely by holding the power button. Simply using the reset button did nothing, and in fact booting up would fail; the system would give me the "Insert boot media in selected boot drive" line, and just get stuck there. This would keep happening until I used the hard shutdown.
Hope somebody can shed some light on this..
I have my own custom built rig, have had it for over a year now. It has never presented any serious issues up until recently; my system started freezing up randomly and only a hard shutdown and reboot would fix it.
I have 2 drives, a Corsair M4 which I'm using pretty much only as a boot drive, and a Spinpoint which I use for all my storage, from music to my Steam games.
Long story short, I narrowed the problem down to my SSD; installing my OS on the Spinpoint and booting from it has made it stable again, with zero crashes in the last few hours (as opposed to the hourly hang with my SSD).
So now I'm left with the question, is my SSD the actual problem, or the associated controller? Honestly, I figure I could just try the other controllers and repeat the process over and over again, were it not that getting to those other cables would be a major PITA. I'm hoping somebody here has had a similar issue or is more knowledgeable in the matter, so I can solve the problem immediately instead of having to go through the ol' trial and error - nor would I want to spend cash on a new SSD if it's the controller that's causing issues.
A few facts:
- My SSD used SATA3, on an AsRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard.
- Windows repair did nothing
- Complete format with a fresh Windows install did nothing
- Diskchecks all turned up clean
- After every crash, I would have to turn off my system completely by holding the power button. Simply using the reset button did nothing, and in fact booting up would fail; the system would give me the "Insert boot media in selected boot drive" line, and just get stuck there. This would keep happening until I used the hard shutdown.
Hope somebody can shed some light on this..
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