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Tough problem to trouble shoot

BTRY B 529th FA BN

BTRY B 529th FA BN

Lifer
OCZ Vertext LE 100G Firmware 1.05
Ram passes 200% Memtest HCI and is at loose timings with adequate volts
Same cpu specs, no overclocking; no anything for that matter. I haven't changed anything on the computer.

As of late, for some reason the os will become non-responsive; desktop is gone with just the wallpaper pic showing - no task-bar, icons, etc. One of the other crashes, everything stopped responding and in a few minutes, it crashed and re-booted to a "please pick a proper OS Boot drive to start" or something like that...

The cores are not out of normal temps. It passed 200% of Memtest HCI...

I'm lost. I'm suspicious of the SSD but I figure it would just straight up and crash and not be able to reboot..

I've done a back-up cycle of the things I need in-case anything turns an unrecoverable nose dive.

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Yeah those early Sandforce drives have crap reliability. You could try doing a secure erase but I suspect that the problems will reoccur within another week or 2. Probably will have to RMA it.
 
mfenn said:
Yeah those early Sandforce drives have crap reliability. You could try doing a secure erase but I suspect that the problems will reoccur within another week or 2. Probably will have to RMA it.
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I'm hoping not.

If I have to, what tools do I use to do a secure erase?
 
You've had a butt load of issues with your builds. Bad luck. Rma that a get an intel drive. Might be a tad slower but solid as a rock. You would never notice the speed difference in real life.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
You've had a butt load of issues with your builds. Bad luck. Rma that a get an intel drive. Might be a tad slower but solid as a rock. You would never notice the speed difference in real life.
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It could be related to the shock I got from the co-axial cable + the outlets not being grounded... :hmm:
 
Well, I changed the bios battery, and installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and it's still happening. The system completely becomes unresponsive and it reboots to this:

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I reboot and I am up and running until it crashes again..
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
Well, I changed the bios battery, and installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and it's still happening. The system completely becomes unresponsive and it reboots to this:

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I reboot and I am up and running until it crashes again..
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It sounds like your Sandforce is getting bogged down and unresponsive enough to not respond to the BIOS's drive detection routines. Remember that SSD controllers are small computers unto themselves. I don't think that this is a BIOS or driver issue, but instead a problem with the drive's firmware getting into a bad state. Have you tried updating to 1.10?
 
mfenn said:
It sounds like your Sandforce is getting bogged down and unresponsive enough to not respond to the BIOS's drive detection routines. Remember that SSD controllers are small computers unto themselves. I don't think that this is a BIOS or driver issue, but instead a problem with the drive's firmware getting into a bad state. Have you tried updating to 1.10?
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I didn't know 1.10 was the latest for the Sandforce 1500 controller...

I re-visited the page i got 1.05 from but that page doesnt update like I though it would.. i'll have to go searching for it, thanks dood! :thumbsup:
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
I didn't know 1.10 was the latest for the Sandforce 1500 controller...

I re-visited the page i got 1.05 from but that page doesnt update like I though it would.. i'll have to go searching for it, thanks dood! :thumbsup:
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Yeah you have to go to the OCZ forums. You might try asking about your problem there too.
 
mfenn said:
Yeah you have to go to the OCZ forums. You might try asking about your problem there too.
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That didn't work. But 1.10 seems to speed up the drive.

It happened again. I did notice my TV tuner card trying to update itself when it crashed/became un-responsive.


EDIT:

I've been able to reproduce the crash by simply updating the WinTV program listings, and every-time it crashes. This may be just a co-incidence but it looks like I'm on to something.
 
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Well, looks like my it was my OCZ Vertex LE - it just bellied up and bricked. Even with the latest FW and the latest Intel RST drivers... now.. I'll just have look into doing and RMA

:colbert:
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
Well, looks like my it was my OCZ Vertex LE - it just bellied up and bricked. Even with the latest FW and the latest Intel RST drivers... now.. I'll just have look into doing and RMA

:colbert:
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Sucks man. I guess that's what happens when companies get a "special" stock of chips with pre-release firmware on them. I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced it with a production Vertex 2.
 
mfenn said:
Sucks man. I guess that's what happens when companies get a "special" stock of chips with pre-release firmware on them. I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced it with a production Vertex 2.
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Yeah :\

Now I just am wondering how to erase it now that it won't boot: atleast to have the peace of mind before I send the SSD with all my info on it.. D:
 
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