Dead SSD?

sixer9682

sixer9682

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I have a Falcon 128gb SSD which has worked flawlessly for me for about 6 months now. I left my computer turned on overnight and this morning it was unresponsive. I turned off my PC and restarted to find that the bios is not recognizing the SSD. I then disconnected the power and reconnected the power cable. After checking the SATA cable connections to the SSD and the motherboard I turned the pc on again and had the same lack of response.

I changed the SATA cable and changed the SATA location on my motherboard from 0 to 1 and the bios still refuses to recognize the SSD is attached. I even changed to another power connector from my Power Supply with no response.

Is this SSD suddenly dead, or is it more likely the cables or motherboard? The reason I ask is that I updated my bios two weeks ago to the most recent one. I have not had any problems with the new bios, but I'm curious if this might be an issue now, or if the the SSD is more likely dead.

I'm not concerned about temperatures since I'm in Atlanta and at night my MB temp is 24C and the HD, I have a sensor, showed 21C.
 
I would check it out on another motherboard; if the other mb doesn't recognize it; your pretty much fucked. I had this issue with the operating system not being found; I had to disable other things is my boot order. I'm guessing it is more of a motherboard than SSD problem.
 
Sixer you could try to put it in a different computer and you would know for sure but it sounds like you cashed out your ssd. You could pull your battery and let the bios reset and see if it recognizes it then, if it does then bam your bios is the prob. If not it could be 1 of 2 things.
either the mobo is bad or the ssd is bad. Cables dont go bad overnight like that.
 
I'll check it out on my wife's PC tonight when I get home. I was just reading on G. Skill's SSD forum and there seems to be a rash of the Falcon 128gb SSDs suddently failing. There are several posts where people said the same thing I did, they left the PC on overnight and the PC no longer recognizes the SSD in the bios now.

This is not the first time I left the pc on for a day at a time, but it's starting to sound like a bad batch of Falcon SSDs. Fuck. If that's the case, I won't be on tonight since I don't get home until after 9:30pm. At least I still have my Samsung F1 750GB HD to use, but I don't have Win7 or anything else installed on it since it's being used for storage only.
 
Well, I guess this pretty much settles it; I sent this same message as in the post here to G. Skill's support and just got this reply.

"Dear Customer

Sounds like the drive may be defective. Go ahead and send it in for a new replacement. Please visit our website at http://www.gskill.com/rma.php for complete RMA procedures.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT"
 
Balls thats a great tool and its cheap.. i will have to put that on my list of must haves.
 
xxXRayzorXxx said:
Balls thats a great tool and its cheap.. i will have to put that on my list of must haves.
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They are pretty handy; it shows up under "Computer" as a storage device; thus, you can format or whatever like a normal drive.

On another note...Sixer that sucks because I have one too;
 
Yeah, hopefully yours lasts longer than the 6 months mine did. Well, I filled out the RMA request and sent it in and I guess I'll send the drive out tomorrow for replacement, which sucks. I'm still going to try it on the wife's pc, but I'm thinking it's a toaster-muffin at this point. From what I've gathered on the G.Skill SSD support forums, the problem is linked to the indilinx controller they've been using for these drives.
 
Could your sound issue be related? Like a short somewhere? Seems interesting happening all at once.
 
Sound card is driver related. The only reason I've had problems with that recently is also have a mouse that is dead. When the mouse stopped working, for whatever reason, it corrupted the driver for the sound card, which then had to be reinstalled. Both my sound card and mouse are Razer products.

The mouse still has power, and it might be driver related with Win7 also, but at this time it is unresponsive in Win7.
 
A new controller called SandForce is suppose to beat the crap out of Indilinx when it comes out. The OCZ Vertex 2 is using it, as well as one from SuperTalent and a few others.
 
If you updated your bios and everything worked fine immediately afterwards, I don't think you'd have problems further on - unless the new bios has a default setting of overvolting or something insane like that, which I don't think a sane manufacturer would do...

SSDs are way too young and quirky to buy right now imo.

They're fuck around with, but I wouldn't rely on one for important data, yet.
 
Well, I got Win7 and all the chipset drivers installed on my regular SATAII HD and am going to install BF2142 after I finish with the AV installation, so I might be on tonight for a bit.
 
that sucks did you get on while i was playing? i know you popped in. but did you get the game going finally?
 
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