New SSD worked 2 days now dead?

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tjmonsen5

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I just bought a OCZ Agility 4 on a black friday deal, and have been using it about 2 days now. It was working fine and it was fast! Very happy with it, but.... windows installed some updates last night. It shut down automatically when they were finished. I tried turning the computer on this morning and it will not post. It is going straight to BIOS and asking for boot sequence. I put SDD first, click save and exit. It will then restart, and ask the same thing over again. I tried messing around with it, and have gotten nowhere. I am now using my old HDD with windows still installed on it to post this. I even tried reinstalling windows on the SSD but i cant even get that far. It just continues to loop back to Bios and ask for boot sequence. What should I do? I know the computer is ok since I am using it right now, does this sound like an RMA situation for the new SSD?

Motherboard: ASROCK Extreme 3 Gen 3
CPU - I5 2500
SSD: OC agility 4 256gb
 
Seems like it - and if possible try to see if you can update the firmware for the SSD if any are available.

If that fails - RMA it.
 
It came with latest firmware. The computer can see it if I boot from my old HDD. I can look through the files just as if it was perfectly fine.

But,... If I try to boot from the SSD, the windows splash screen plays for about 4 seconds, then blue screen and restart. Not sure what to do here.
 
Ya seems the ssd's are not good enough for mass consumer yet. I have had 2 both died quickly and all the sdd's that others owned I know personally died too. Waste of money just buy yourself a wd 10k veliraptor or the 4tb sam drive 7200k give ssd another few years to mature.
 
yelsewshane said:
Ya seems the ssd's are not good enough for mass consumer yet. I have had 2 both died quickly and all the sdd's that others owned I know personally died too. Waste of money just buy yourself a wd 10k veliraptor or the 4tb sam drive 7200k give ssd another few years to mature.
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Nonsense. I've been running solid state for 5+ years now. No issues.
 
Can't believe how much these newer drives and OCZ's die. It's crazy. I still have an older X25-M kicking ass and taking names, still as fast as day one and stable as a rock.

Makes you think.
 
tjmonsen5 said:
I just bought a OCZ Agility 4 on a black friday deal, and have been using it about 2 days now. It was working fine and it was fast! Very happy with it, but.... windows installed some updates last night. It shut down automatically when they were finished. I tried turning the computer on this morning and it will not post. It is going straight to BIOS and asking for boot sequence. I put SDD first, click save and exit. It will then restart, and ask the same thing over again. I tried messing around with it, and have gotten nowhere. I am now using my old HDD with windows still installed on it to post this. I even tried reinstalling windows on the SSD but i cant even get that far. It just continues to loop back to Bios and ask for boot sequence. What should I do? I know the computer is ok since I am using it right now, does this sound like an RMA situation for the new SSD?

Motherboard: ASROCK Extreme 3 Gen 3
CPU - I5 2500
SSD: OC agility 4 256gb
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Hi, tjmonsen5,

If you haven't already, try flashing the motherboard BIOS to the latest version. Also, for best performance make sure you change the SATA ports to AHCI and have the SSD connected to an Intel SATA port.

Hope this helps.

Chuklr
 
yelsewshane said:
Ya seems the ssd's are not good enough for mass consumer yet. I have had 2 both died quickly and all the sdd's that others owned I know personally died too. Waste of money just buy yourself a wd 10k veliraptor or the 4tb sam drive 7200k give ssd another few years to mature.
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Remember that SSDs (not made by OCZ) have a significantly higher reliability than hard drives. Although a general rule with data storage is any drive can die at any time.
 
You know exactly what is wrong and what to do. The problem is you're human and you're in the denial stage of grieving.

New products break more often than used ones because people test them harder than companies do. This goes for cars too. <1 year old cars have more repair expenses than 2 year old ones.

Call ocz and deal with your lemon.
 
My experience with my new ASRock motherboard is that SATA isn't a strong point on these boards, to put it diplomatically. I have at least 3 SATA-related problems I'm working around.

Your issue doesn't even seem SSD-related but going the RMA route might be the easiest way to rule out a possible drive problem.
 
I took your guys advise and updated to the newest BIOS for my motherboard. UEFI looks much nicer now and there are a few new features which is nice. Looks like my processor will actually overclock now as well! (i5-2500 non k model) I then booted from my old HDD, and used OCZ tools to format the SSD. I restarted, entered BIOS and switched to AHCI mode. It was in IDE mode before, (although I can swear that I switched to AHCI before i installed windows the first time). I then restarted the computer, booted from windows 7 disc, and formatted both the SSD again and the HDD. Windows installed just fine to the SSD now. Currrently installing my programs and downloading BF3 again. Crossing my fingers that nothing weird happens again.
 
tjmonsen5 said:
I restarted, entered BIOS and switched to AHCI mode. It was in IDE mode before, (although I can swear that I switched to AHCI before i installed windows the first time).
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Flashing the bios will revert settings to factory defaults. You may very well have had it set to AHCI mode previously.
 
If you were in IDE and switched to AHCI it would bluescreen on boot like you described...nothing is wrong with the SSD, it's an operator error. Same goes for RAID to AHCI or AHCI to RAID...Windows will get pissed no matter the version. There are steps you can take to get around this however...but it appears you already reformatted.

I know how much OCZ can suck, despite not having any problems with the 3x OCZ SSDs I've had - but blowing past obvious signs of OE error vs. a shitty drive is kinda sad for this forum.
 
ziggo0 said:
If you were in IDE and switched to AHCI it would bluescreen on boot like you described...nothing is wrong with the SSD, it's an operator error. Same goes for RAID to AHCI or AHCI to RAID...Windows will get pissed no matter the version. There are steps you can take to get around this however...but it appears you already reformatted.

I know how much OCZ can suck, despite not having any problems with the 3x OCZ SSDs I've had - but blowing past obvious signs of OE error vs. a shitty drive is kinda sad for this forum.
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+1

Pretty sad. I would have recommended booting up to the Windows setup media, hit Shift + F10 to invoke a command prompt, then launch diskpart.exe. Once in an interactive prompt, use "list disk" to see if the disk is present. If it is, then you most likely have a "c" drive, but you can use the "list volume" command to be sure.

Also, "select disk 0" should select your hard drive, and once you've done that, you can "list partition" to .... 'er, list the partitions on the disk.
 
There was absolutely no way to load windows to the SSD again without formatting it first from a different HDD. No matter what, it would always reboot and ask for boot sequence. I honestly dont know what I would do if I didnt have a second HDD to use. It wouldnt even make it to the point where it says "loading windows files" from the installation disc.
 
tjmonsen5 said:
There was absolutely no way to load windows to the SSD again without formatting it first from a different HDD. No matter what, it would always reboot and ask for boot sequence. I honestly dont know what I would do if I didnt have a second HDD to use. It wouldnt even make it to the point where it says "loading windows files" from the installation disc.
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You are simply wrong in your analysis.

Most likely the AHCI got set wrong and that caused your problems. And then when you tried to reinstall Windows you were booting from the wrong drive - your SSD not the CD.

But you are entitled to your opinion.
 
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