Thanks Bill. That's interesting because my SSD is a GSkill Falcon which is basically a re-badged OCZ. If all else fails I'll try to play around with hot-swapping and possibly even try to reset bios to use sata as IDE rather than AHCI (so not hot-swappable).
Does anyone know the registry change I would need to make in Windows 7 to set it to IDE from AHCI after I change the bios setting? I remember I had to change a setting in the registry when I first changed the bios to AHCI. Cheers Dave On 24 February 2011 11:54, Bill McCarthy <bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au>wrote: > Haven't encountered this one. I'd add to the list of suggestions to either > swap graphics card or switch to integrated graphics (if applicable) etc. > > I did have a bizarre problem with a OCZ vertex 2 SSD reasonably recently. I > think it was a blue screen, then complete failure to reboot. The thing was > I > could get to bios and all happily, but the drive was not recognised. Tried > every different port, still no luck. So I got and old clunky mechanical > drive out, and booted to that. Managed to copy my last image to that (for > some reason couldn't copy it to another SSD !!). I went to try to get any > recent data (that day's) off the Ocz, and still couldn't get it to be > recognized. Whilst mucking around I happened to hot plug in the sata (power > first, then sata), and hey presto the Ocz SSD was all back happy and > working. This was really strange as it wasn't the mb as such as I was using > the same ports with mechanical drives yet the Ocz couldn't be read: it must > have been something in the Ocz SSD itself. > I think the problems all stem from a hot swap drive bay where the mb > doesn't > support hot swap. > > The chances of that story being useful to you however are probably less > than > one in a million, but you never know, it might be ;) > > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- > |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin > |Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:34 AM > |To: ozDotNet > |Subject: Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself > | > |Thanks David. That's my plan - pull all the data off the SSD so at least > that is > |safe. > | > |Unfortunately I am the OEM of my machine so apart from frowning at myself > |in the mirror I don't have much else recourse that way. Hopefully once the > data > |is safe I can reformat and all will be good for a reinstall, but as it > stands, the > |reinstall process just hangs. > | > |I guess I was really just hoping that someone would say something like "oh > |yeah, I had that problem too. Just pat your head and rub your stomach, > reboot > |and all will be back to normal". I really prefer trivial fixes :) > | > | > |On 24 February 2011 11:24, David Connors <da...@codify.com> wrote: > | > | > | On 24 February 2011 10:09, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com> > |wrote: > | > | > | QUESTION: > | Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this machine to > |reboot? I don't mind reinstalling Windows as long as I can get to the > files > on the > |machine. I have backups but that will be a painful road as I still need a > machine > |to be in a working state so that I can restore the backup. > | > | > | I'd put your SSD in another machine (as a secondary, not boot disk) > to > |get the data off as a priority - then just call Dell or whoever to make > them fix it. > | > | > | -- > | David Connors | da...@codify.com <mailto:da...@codify.com> | > |www.codify.com <http://www.codify.com> > | Software Engineer > | Codify Pty Ltd > | Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: > +61 > |417 189 363 > | V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > |<https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors> > | Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > |<https://www.codify.com/contact> > | > | > | > > >
