Yep, I did similar. Once I had a mechanical disc going, I downloaded all the latest Ocz utilities: basically just trying to get something to recognize the drive. Still didn't have any luck until hot swapped with the sata lead. I then grabbed a few files off the drive, then flashed it. Haven't had any issues with it since ( a month or two ). All the data was still there. Weirdest hdd failure I've come across.
Recently applied Windows 7 SP1: didn't even notice any changes. |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price |Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:36 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself | |David, | |I just set up my home dev machine (desktop) with an OCZ vertex 2 and have |noticed some strange behaviour. An example is browsing my D: drive, creating |a folder everything will hang for 30 seconds - explorer shows not responding |and nothing seems to be responding. Cpu is sitting idle. Some kind of blocking |somewhere. It then responds and I wont see the problem for a while. Could be |a totally unrelated issue (last crash dump shows nvidia was at fault but it was |from over a week ago.) | |so I got the latest firmware for the OCZ drive. I think its a *really* good idea to |update firmware on ssd drives, it seems to make them more stable in my fairly |limited experience (I had a Gskill Falcon in my m1730 and Alienware). | |I did have to boot off another drive to update the OCZ, flashing the drive when |its your system disk is not supported. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that |my system becomes stable after that. I've also installed Windows 7 sp1 |(released yesterday) so lets hope! | |cheers, |Ste ^d^d^d David | |On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:09 AM, David Burstin <[email protected]> |wrote: |> 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 |> <[email protected]> |> 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: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet- |>> |[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> wrote: |>> | |>> | |>> | On 24 February 2011 10:09, David Burstin |>> |<[email protected]> |>> |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 | [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | |>> |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> |>> | |>> | |>> | |>> |>> |> |> |
