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Intel X25-M 80gb not detected by my laptop

adairusmc

adairusmc

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I just purchased a new Intel X25-M solid state disk to put in my laptop, and I am having a problem getting it to even be seen in the laptop bios.

The laptop is an Acer Aspire 6920.

I have tried setting the BIOS from AHCI to IDE, resetting the BIOS, and updating the BIOS to the newest version - nothing seems to want to get that drive to be detected.

I have also made sure the SSD has the latest firmware, and it does already.
The SSD is detected just fine in my other computers, just not this laptop.

Am I screwed here, or is there a way to make this work?

Thanks.
 
dfuze said:
Did some googling for you, looks like someone else had the same issue.

Here is the link

Let me know if it works
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Thanks. I ran into that link before posting the thread and nothing there helped.

I have contacted both Acer support and Intel support. Hopefully they can give me a way to get the laptop to recognize the drive.

Thanks again, to both dfuze and tcsenter.
 
Well, I have pretty much given up getting the intel drive to work, so I am going to sell it to a friend.

What is the chance that a Vertex II would have a problem like the intel drive did?

It seems the issue is my sata controller, which is an Intel ICH8M. Thanks.
 
I'm not sure why the Intel drive wouldn't work. Before spending any more money I would suggest emailing/calling Acer and ask them if there is a reason. An answer from them may prevent some future agrivation
 
dfuze said:
I'm not sure why the Intel drive wouldn't work. Before spending any more money I would suggest emailing/calling Acer and ask them if there is a reason. An answer from them may prevent some future agrivation
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I did, and they would not do anything except send me to their pay for support people. I won't spend money with them to find out something that I already know.

I will just have to give up on putting an SSD in this laptop I suppose. I found some forum threads with someone trying to put a first gen Vertex in it and having the same issue.
 
That sucks, you would think they could answer a simple question for a customer that already paid for their product.
 
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