Win 7 installed on SSD, comp rebooted last night and BIOS doesnt see SSD....

Morketh · *Last edited by Morketh; 10-16-2011 at 17:26.*

I have a Corsair Force series 90GB SSD.
I installed win 7 pro 64bit on it and everything works fine the entire day, I am playing games and what not like a champ. 1 night goes by, no problems.

Last night I left my computer on during the night and I wake up to a black screen saying there is no boot disk. I guess my computer restarted during the night and lost the SSD in the BIOS

I open BIOS, no SSD. I turn off computer, reseat SSD power and sata connector, power on, BIOS sees it and I set it back to the boot drive and it boots up like nothing happened.

(This is the second motherboard it did this on, I changed mobo for other reasons so I am now thinking something is actually wrong with this SSD)

Anyone have similar problems?

Anarion · 10-16-2011, 17:12 | posts: 9,146 | Location: Finland

Common Sandforce controller issue. There isn't much you can do about it. Keep the firmware upgraded and pray that new firmware fixes it. I'd avoid all Sandforce based SSD's like a plague.

PhazeDelta1 · 10-16-2011, 17:15 | posts: 9,314 | Location: 90° N

no problems here. my f60 is still kicking. have you updated the firmware? i believe corsair dropped an update back in aug or sept.

Morketh · 10-16-2011, 17:17 | posts: 2,903 | Location: Houston, TX

No I didn't even know about updating firmware for SSD's I'll look into it, thank you!

grunger · 10-16-2011, 17:21 | posts: 1,830 | Location: London

There was an issue that did this on SF drives if you sleep your PC rather that shut it down.

It was fixed in a FW update.

PhazeDelta1 · 10-16-2011, 17:31 | posts: 9,314 | Location: 90° N

heres the link to their forum
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/forumdisplay.php?f=206

Morketh · 10-16-2011, 17:33 | posts: 2,903 | Location: Houston, TX

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Originally Posted by Firestorm

heres the link to their forum
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/forumdisplay.php?f=206

Yea I am looking at it now man, thanks for your help!

Morketh · *Last edited by Morketh; 10-16-2011 at 17:51.*

Seems they do not have a link for the 90GB version...

http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=97417

That is the link to the force series 3 drives and it only shows the 60GB and 120GB+ No 90GB...

This is my exact drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

Edit: NM I found it in a different thread here http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99366

Morketh · 10-16-2011, 18:30 | posts: 2,903 | Location: Houston, TX

Flashed it from version 1.3 to 1.3.2 so hopefully that fixes it...
no way to tell until I leave my comp on overnight and it hasnt restarted

nhlkoho · 10-17-2011, 13:46 | posts: 3,861 | Location: Washington DC

I had this happen on a Microcenter 64GB drive which was a rebranded ADATA drive. It worked fine for a few months and then it started doing exactly what you are describing. I took it out and upgraded firmware only for it to work for a few days and then quit again.

Best advice I can give you is buy a new drive. I bought a new Intel SSD and haven't had a problem since.

DesGaizu · 10-17-2011, 13:52 | posts: 1,885 | Location: UK

My gf has a kingston one that did the same thing, second time it did it, it never came back, utterly dead had to send it off and ending up getting money back for it.

Make sure you back up anything important off it just in case.

Xtreme1979 · 10-17-2011, 15:43 | posts: 1,224 | Location: Bay City, MI

My Agility 3 did this to me twice since owning it on 2.11 FW. Couple of weeks back I upgraded to 2.13 and it hasn't happened yet. Common thing on these SF controllers.

Morketh · 10-17-2011, 16:25 | posts: 2,903 | Location: Houston, TX

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Originally Posted by Xtreme1979

My Agility 3 did this to me twice since owning it on 2.11 FW. Couple of weeks back I upgraded to 2.13 and it hasn't happened yet. Common thing on these SF controllers.

Agreed, mine works like a champ now after FW upgrade and turning off sleep mode.