Windows Lock ups (SSD is the suspect)

[yaxattax]

Hi all,

First of all, I apologise if this is in the wrong section. Second of all, apologies if this is covered in an FAQ that I missed.

I have a Windows 7 system with 4x SSD (OCZ vertex 2E 240gb) in RAID0 which ran perfectly fine up until yesterday - it started doing the lock-ups that I had read about, caused by SSDs with poor controllers and even worse random write performance. The lock-ups on my system are characterised with a small audio blip, and if I am in the middle of a keystroke, the keystroke will repeat until the lock-up ends, or completely ignore any input during the lock-up period if I was not performing a keystroke. I did not change anything recently, and I was of the understanding that these drives did not have the poor random write performance, so I am baffled as to why this issue has appeared and hope that somebody is able to help me understand why this is happening, and hopefully fix it. I really don't know what information would be useful for troubleshooting purposes, so I will provide information as requested instead of trying to provide lots of potentially useless information.

I thank you for reading this, and thanks in advance for any help offered.

Kind regards,

Yaqub

 

[Melanie]

have u ran computer management then Event Viewer then look at ur errorrs and warnings or Criticals to seewhat its telling u there ????

 

[yaxattax]

Hi all,

This is rather embarrassing. It turns out something has changed ... but its not my PC. Two days ago I bought an ioniser and placed it a few meters away from my desktop. I noticed a day ago that going near it with headphones on caused audio crackling, so decided to stay away. Today, while trying to troubleshoot the issue, I noticed my mouse light flashes during the lock-ups. Since the mouse is a little closer, I believe it is the range of the ioniser interfering with the mouse electronics every so often, in a way that somehow causes the entire system to lock. Turning off the ioniser seems to have solved the issue. My guess is that the mouse becomes non responsive due to electrical discharges caused by ionised particles (its possible it was performing some kind of fast reboot even) during an interrupt service routine, I could understand how that causes system lock ups.

Come to think of it, I noticed my monitor would occasionally change colour balance without any (apparent) reason. I'm surprised my router didn't have any issues as it is located right next to the ioniser. I guess I will have to relocate it.

Anyway, this is resolved, and would appear to thus be in the wrong section, and may be locked/moved as required.

Apologies, and thanks to all.

Regards,

Yaqub

 

[razel]

My 1st thought was a power issue. It could still be a power issue with the ionizer is using surges of electricity or making too much noise on your power plugged into the same circuit. It happens with sensitive (some argue badly designed) audio amplifiers.