120GB GSKILL SSD failing on resume

egandt

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120GB GSKILL SSD failing out with message:

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation.

When this occurs I need to reboot, after rebooting it will work fine, but after the system has been running for a few hours, or I sleep and resume a few times, I will get it again.

I have it installed on a RAMPAGE III Extreme and have tried numerous cables and controllers I have 3 controllers present a Marvell 6GB with 2 ports (one of which hosts my Vertex 3) a Jmicron which hosts the external ESATA and a second connector and 6 Intel ports, I've tried the Marvell and Intel connectors (3 of these) and had it occur on both, the Jmicron is being used for 2 external Blu-Ray burners so it is fully used. As I pulled this drive out of another system and had no issues, placing back in that system see no issues after sleeping and restoring, and it runs fine upon boot I do not think it is the drive, but something to do with drivers, the MB, sleeping ... I'm looking for suggestions where to go next?

Thanks,
ERIC
 
Just a few thoughts....

Your SSD will have it's best performance on an Intel port. The Marvell chipset is nowhere near it's equal.

Seems some combinations of MB/chipset/OS and SSDs have always been a problem when it comes to sleep or resume.

Something simple to try would be to change the power setting of the SSD to never turn off.

This can be done thru the Power Options on a Windows OS.
 
One thing I never considered before getting an SSD for boot drive was shutting down after using the system and not using power save at all. Since my motherboard has resume problems, I don't even use power save, I just shut down. Since the SSD is so fast to boot, I can power on and get to a fully useable desktop in like 20 seconds anyway.
 
I've moved to the Intel, for now, I actually found the Marvell slightly faster, mostly I assume because it spread out the load some, but moving back to Intel does nothing for the immediate issue, which is the 120GB GSKILL SSD, this was the old boot drive on this system, before switching to the Vertex 3, so the drive has worked before, with the same controller and setting AHCI and RST 10 drivers, however in that case I never used resume on the system.
As for forgoing resume, even with all the processing power and a good SSD, my boot to actual useful desktop time is about 3 minutes (blame that on the RAID controller, which takes forever) and number of tasks I have setup to run on boot (20 notification ICONs and 37 unique executable based on whatsinstartup). Don't ask about that I have lots happening on my systems, and being the primary workstation it has more than many.

ERIC
 
I've moved to the Intel, for now, I actually found the Marvell slightly faster
Is this the "speed in my pants" or have you actually tested it?

so the drive has worked before, with the same controller and setting AHCI and RST 10 drivers, however in that case I never used resume on the system.

I suggest you try what I told you before....
Something simple to try would be to change the power setting of the SSD to never turn off.

Your boot time is horrible because of everything you have connected but you can't do anything about that.

AFAIK you need to figure something out with the power settings.
 
Is this the "speed in my pants" or have you actually tested it?

As I said its not much faster using iometer it about 5% so nothing to write home about, but every little bit helps, still not something I'll miss.

I suggest you try what I told you before....

I assume you mean turn off "Hard drive after", which I have set to 0 (never)
PCI Link Sate Power Management (off)

Your boot time is horrible because of everything you have connected but you can't do anything about that.

Agreed: I have a wacom tablet, a 3dconnect mouse, a Logitech keyboard, Logitech trackball and Logitech mouse, 2 joysticks and a command pad. Once in windows you have anydvd, Logitech, outpost, directory opus, RST, OO defrag, VMWARE, Object Dock, Display Fusion, CCC, Daemon tools, SSH, realtek, RAID, printer ...

Frankly even after disabling all the crap I can at startup, its a scary set of software needed to make Windows work acceptable. ;)

ERIC
 
It's possible some of your software (including drivers) is not liking sleep.
 
As I said its not much faster using iometer it about 5% so nothing to write home about, but every little bit helps, still not something I'll miss.
I'm sure there'd be more difference with a program like AS SSD but your system is so convoluted it won't matter. :)

I assume you mean turn off "Hard drive after", which I have set to 0 (never)
Yep, that's my only suggestion and it's obviously failed for you......which is par for the course with my suggestions. LOL!

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance.

Good Luck!
 
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