M500 boot problem

[zonkie]

I turned off my pc last night and this morning it boots to a blue screen that goes by too fast to see the message (win 8.1) and then it tries to repair. After 7 hours of that I decided to check the bios, but the ssd isn't showing.

I used the win 8 cd to recover, but it said the disk was locked. I turned off secure boot in bios but it just tried to repair again. While I was doing this I chatted with crucial support which walked me through a power cycle which didn't work.

I then decided to do a reinstall and it saw the ssd and here I am.

I got permission to RMA the ssd but I wanted to ask opinions first.

I got the ssd in February and have had no problems expect a few crashes during gaming. No SMART errors or notices from the intel RST program that runs in the background. But now I don't trust the drive. My wife uses it to work from home and I game on it at night so I really cant have this be flaky.

Suggestions?

 

[Turab]

If it can't be detected by an storage utility ( like Easeus etc. ) while it is plugged in on SATA, it may be dead already.

Seems like had no way but to RMA it.

 

[zonkie]

Well the bios can see it now because the win 8 disk formatted it. I think the mbr got corrupted which of course would cause boot errors. i'm just paranoid now.

 

[dogdaynoon]

better to be safe than sorry. It sounds like you have no problem with data loss since you already reformatted the thing. RMA it. new drives = better drives!
maybe you'll get a firmware update in the process. who knows...