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 <david.burs...@gmail.com> 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 <bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> > 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: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- >> |boun...@ozdotnet.com] 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 <da...@codify.com> wrote: >> | >> | >> | On 24 February 2011 10:09, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com > >> |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 | da...@codify.com <mailto:da...@codify.com> | >> |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> >> | >> | >> | >> >> > >
