SSD Intermittently Appearing in Bios

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Well, I just started experiencing this on my system. System will randomly freeze, and when I reboot my SSD (Crucial M4 128gb which I've had since October) is not showing up in the BIOS and thus I get a "the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" message.

If I restart multiple times, move that drive to a different SATA port, or disconnect the other drives it will sometimes reappear, I'll get into Windows fine, and after a while the whole process will start again - freezing and then not recognizing.

A checkdisk produced nothing, switching SATA ports did not resolve the problem, trying a new SATA cable did not resolve the problem. I've just tried unplugging all the other hard drives in my system, so we'll see what happens.

What else could I be looking at here? Dying drive despite no issues on the checkdisk or the hdtune error scan? Overwhelmed power supply which I'm hoping to find out now by only having the SSD plugged in and not the other 4 drives (power supply is a corsair 650W, FYI)?

Note: when plugged in, the bios has never, to my knowledge, failed to recognize ANY of the other hard drives.

Edit: been a while, still no problems with only the one drive plugged in.
 
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It's a Crucial M4, they do this. RMA it. My SMART showed now errors. I didn't try the latest firmware though, worth a shot.
 
Fooshnik said:
It's a Crucial M4, they do this. RMA it. My SMART showed now errors. I didn't try the latest firmware though, worth a shot.
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In general, no they don't. A friend of mine had the same problem because he didn't update his firmware. The same thing you didn't do.

I've been abusing my 128 GB M4 for almost 6 months and performance has stayed about the same.
 
Actuary said:
Well, I just started experiencing this on my system. System will randomly freeze, and when I reboot my SSD (Crucial M4 128gb which I've had since October) is not showing up in the BIOS and thus I get a "the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" message.

If I restart multiple times, move that drive to a different SATA port, or disconnect the other drives it will sometimes reappear, I'll get into Windows fine, and after a while the whole process will start again - freezing and then not recognizing.

A checkdisk produced nothing, switching SATA ports did not resolve the problem, trying a new SATA cable did not resolve the problem. I've just tried unplugging all the other hard drives in my system, so we'll see what happens.

What else could I be looking at here? Dying drive despite no issues on the checkdisk or the hdtune error scan? Overwhelmed power supply which I'm hoping to find out now by only having the SSD plugged in and not the other 4 drives (power supply is a corsair 650W, FYI)?

Note: when plugged in, the bios has never, to my knowledge, failed to recognize ANY of the other hard drives.

Edit: been a while, still no problems with only the one drive plugged in.
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A friend of mine has a 128 GB M4 and your system was behaving just like his. There was a firmware bug that necessitated an update that was posted maybe 6 months ago. I remember updating and I told him to do the same. Well he didn't.

He spent days troubleshooting hardware even reverting to his previous HDD. I reminded him to check his firmware. Oops. He upgraded and problem solved.
 
Well I rearranged the way the drives were plugged in so that there was only two drives on that line and updated the firmware and it's been good since, so fingers crossed that the issue is gone.
 
interesting glad I saw this... I just updated my firmware on my M4 last week and didnt have any issues till I set it up oon my new asrock z77 extreme 4.

I installed a new vid card with new drivers and it the screens would go black and freeze when trying to change screen resolution. Then powering off manual would make the M4 not seen in bios
 
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