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My primary system is based on a Gigabyte H55M-USB3 motherboard with an i5 661 processor. This is a P55 chipset motherboard & Im running Windows 7 Ultimate X64. I use the integrated graphics since all I use this system for is email, web surfing and downloading. It has 4 gigs of memory and a storage array consisting of a 60 Gig Corsair Nova R60 SSD as the boot drive and two Western Digital hard drives as storage. Recently I bought a 64 Gig Western Digital Silicon Edge SSD and my plan was to swap out the Corsair with the WD SSD. At the same time I updated the motherboard bios from F6 to F8. My problem is when I changed drives the WD SSD started to shutdown the system randomly. It would just simply shut the computer off, sometimes while booting up and other times it will run for an hour or more before it happens. Turning it back on got me the start windows normally screen. Checking the system logs showed nothing except the system shut down with a kernel power problem. The system is using a 750 Watt Thermaltake power supply so I doubt its starving for power. I changed SATA and power cables and moved the SSD to different power conns but it made no difference. Strangely enough every time this happened I seemed to lose my log in information on my Internet sites such as Gmail.
My first thought was the new WD SSD was bad but I put it in another of my machines and it worked fine. And the Corsair SSD works in a different system. I put the Corsair SSD back in the Gigabyte system after using HDDErase to wipe the drive but it too shut down the computer. So my next assumption was the bios update had screwed things up. In the intervening few days since I updated the bios, the F9 update was released so I updated to F9 but no resolution to the problem. Then I reverted to the original F6 bios but the problem persists. Ive tried Gigabyte drivers, Intel drivers and the Microsoft drivers installed when Windows 7 installs but the problem only got worse. Now I cant get the operating system to install. Twice its failed. Once it got to the end, just before the first reboot and failed with the screen flashing alternating colors, full screen. The next time it failed during the expansion of the files and when I went to try again the SSD had vanished.
The system works fine booting off my WD 750 Gig black drive. And the SSD works in any of my other systems. All I can think of is the bios update reset some esoteric bios setting. Ive changed most of the settings that might possibly be related to the problem to no avail. Im running in AHCI mode because I want the trim to work and I dont want to change back to IDE. Ive wiped this SSD four times now with HDDErase and I dont want to keep doing it so Im hoping somebody out there might have had a similar problem and can offer me some hope.
My first thought was the new WD SSD was bad but I put it in another of my machines and it worked fine. And the Corsair SSD works in a different system. I put the Corsair SSD back in the Gigabyte system after using HDDErase to wipe the drive but it too shut down the computer. So my next assumption was the bios update had screwed things up. In the intervening few days since I updated the bios, the F9 update was released so I updated to F9 but no resolution to the problem. Then I reverted to the original F6 bios but the problem persists. Ive tried Gigabyte drivers, Intel drivers and the Microsoft drivers installed when Windows 7 installs but the problem only got worse. Now I cant get the operating system to install. Twice its failed. Once it got to the end, just before the first reboot and failed with the screen flashing alternating colors, full screen. The next time it failed during the expansion of the files and when I went to try again the SSD had vanished.
The system works fine booting off my WD 750 Gig black drive. And the SSD works in any of my other systems. All I can think of is the bios update reset some esoteric bios setting. Ive changed most of the settings that might possibly be related to the problem to no avail. Im running in AHCI mode because I want the trim to work and I dont want to change back to IDE. Ive wiped this SSD four times now with HDDErase and I dont want to keep doing it so Im hoping somebody out there might have had a similar problem and can offer me some hope.