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| Thread ID: 125907 | 2012-07-26 07:08:00 | SSD Nightmare | icow (15313) | Press F1 |
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| 1290964 | 2012-07-26 07:08:00 | I finally got around to getting some sata cables so I could use my SSD. Plugged it in to find that one of my other two hdd's wasn't detected. Rearranged the sata cables, only to find that the other HDD was no longer detected. Rest BIOS settings, nothing >:(. Eventually cut all of my cable ties and ruined my nice cable management (grr) and rearranged the sata power cables so that both mechanical HDD's were running off the same sata cable and the SSD had one all to it's self. This seemed to work (apart from the fact I now have cables everywhere). /minirant Finally with all my drives plugged in and working I decided to install windows. Copies the files to the SSD instantly as expected (not that it was ever slow on a standard HDD) and begins expanding the files. Sits on 0% for a while be eventually gets going. Gets to 50% and hangs almost completely. Mouse won't move and I'm 99% sure that the keyboard wasn't responsive either (caps lock light didnt come on when caps was hit). So I hit the power button and decided to try again, got to 26% this time and the same thing happened. Any ideas? SSD = OCZ Agility 3 (60GB) Motherboard = M4N68T-M (SATA II) OS = Win 7 HP 64bit |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1290965 | 2012-07-26 20:37:00 | I'm a bit confused. I've never seen a SATA cable that can go to two devices... like the old days of IDE with Master and Slave. Do you mean they're sharing the same controller? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1290966 | 2012-07-26 21:28:00 | Have you set this in the BIOS? forum.crucial.com |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1290967 | 2012-07-26 23:48:00 | I assume it's a power connector with 2 sata power connections you were meaning? Anyway the behaviour is weird and definately not normal, plugging a new drive in should not cause existing ones to not be detected. Perhaps there is a lose connection or dodgy SATA cable that got bumped in the process? If you have any spare SATA cables I'd try a different one on the SSD. Also maybe the MB BIOS and/or SSD firmware needs updating. You could try defaulting the BIOS as well, it might do something. Just remember to set the controllers back to AHCI or RAID mode. If you are using IDE mode on the SATA controller you could try changing it to AHCI but you'll need to do the registry hack and install the driver first or it won't boot. When I originally got my intel SSD I used their version of acronis to clone my old C: drive onto it, that worked ok except it resized the hidden system partition and made it too small which screwed up windows backup(shadow copy needs a minimum amount of space). You could try that if you have a working OS on another HDD just don't let whatever cloning software resize that hidden partition(if you have one). |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1290968 | 2012-07-27 00:36:00 | I assume it's a power connector with 2 sata power connections you were meaning? Yeah sorry that was what I was meaning. @WarNox I'll give the bios thing a go today (when I get time) @Dug I might give the drive cloning ago, I would prefer to just do a fresh install though. Will probably try that if I can't get it to work the way I want. I've got all 3 drives detecting, swapping the power cables round fixed that. I couldn't run an SSD and an HDD off of the same power cable but I could run 2 HDD's off of one cable and the SSD off of another. Do SSD's draw more power than HDD's or something? I'm thinking it was a bit like how running a CD Drive and HDD off of one molex connector wouldn't work (most of the time). |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1290969 | 2012-07-27 00:59:00 | Do SSD's draw more power than HDD's or something? I'm thinking it was a bit like how running a CD Drive and HDD off of one molex connector wouldn't work (most of the time). SSDs are far lower power draw than a mechanical drive. I have an Agility 3 and Corsair SSD, and under load I haven't seen either draw more than 3Watts, compared to my 1TB mechanical drives that hit over 7Watt regularly. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1290970 | 2012-07-27 02:08:00 | That's what I would have thought. Any ideas as to why an HDD and SSD refuse to run off of the same power cable? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1290971 | 2012-07-27 02:51:00 | Maybe there is a faulty power socket on one cable?? Those power cables probably come off the same bus anyway! | linw (53) | ||
| 1290972 | 2012-07-27 03:10:00 | That would make sense, I will try swapping the power cable that has 2 drives on it around as well. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1290973 | 2012-07-27 06:17:00 | It was the CD driver (lol), put a new one in and the install worked 100% fine. Not too sure about the power issues with the HDD's though. | icow (15313) | ||
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