Darkcyde Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 PC was idle, went to open firefox, nothing. Everything then freezes so I re-boot. It makes it to the welcome screen and the just sits there with the hdd light on. Won't boot in safe mode or off the win7 dvd. BIOS says it's there but it freezes when the SSD is accsessed during boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 9, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 9, 2011 I would try and run Parted Magic and see if it will let you secure erase the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 If you can't boot off of the Windows 7 DVD then the issue isn't the SSD. To double check it, disconnect the sata cable from the SSD and attempt to boot off of the DVD again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkcyde Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 If you can't boot off of the Windows 7 DVD then the issue isn't the SSD. To double check it, disconnect the sata cable from the SSD and attempt to boot off of the DVD again. It boots off the DVD fine up until it reads the SSD then it freezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 9, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 9, 2011 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Be sure to check the box that says “I've already spoken to Technical Support and/or RAM Guy.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenSBB Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I had the same problem and the link in this post are instructions that allowed me to Secure Erase the drive http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showpost.php?p=492388&postcount=4 No idea if it's a permanent fix but it seems ok so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 10, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 10, 2011 Darkcyde I would try what BenSBB suggested. If it still does not work I would just replace the Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 You know I had this happen to my drive 2 days ago. System froze completely. When I rebooted the bios did not show the drive. I had to unplug the system and then the drive showed up. Windows then did a scan disk and found 100's of errors. Ever since then I have been getting numerous blue screens. What is the purpose of the secure erase and more importantly why is this happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 11, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 11, 2011 I would just have the drive replaced Paesan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkcyde Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Drive is on it's way back along with my noisy RAM fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angchief Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I had the same problem. I reflashed the BIOS, and Voile, all fixed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenSBB Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 The BIOS on what - the drive (I can't find a link to it?) or the motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Only motherboards have a BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebby Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I had the same issue as the OP, the system freezes as soon as the drive is accessed. Doing a secure erase seems to semi-fix it for a short period of time, just about enough to reinstall windows and a few apps before it freezes again. It's not the system as I tried installing windows with a separate machine after running another secure erase and it did the same thing. My next step is going to be a RMA, just wanted to post here to share that the OP is not alone :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbean2u Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 You know I had this happen to my drive 2 days ago. System froze completely. When I rebooted the bios did not show the drive. I had to unplug the system and then the drive showed up. Windows then did a scan disk and found 100's of errors. Ever since then I have been getting numerous blue screens. What is the purpose of the secure erase and more importantly why is this happening. Similar thing happened to me. My drive worked great for the first couple of months. Then about 2 weeks ago my system froze up completely and when I rebooted my P3 128 SSD was not showing up in the bios at all. I unplugged the system then checked the cables to the drive by disconnecting them and reconnecting them..after that the drive worked fine but windows wouldn't boot at all. I did a system recovery from a backup image and it seemed to work good for a couple of days and then it froze up completely again. A reboot worked that time...but now it has been freezing up every day and twice more since then the drive wasn't recognized in the bios on reboot until I unplugged the system and disconnected and reconnected the drive. Now today I am completely unable to use it as it freezes up my system completely within about a minute of being turned on. I loved the performance of this drive for the time that it worked, but now I am just extremely frustrated with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 20, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 20, 2011 Which controller do you have the P3-128 connected to on the motherboard? Also try it on another system to see if the issue follows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkcyde Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 Well after 8 months of trouble free use, my RMA'd SSD started to randomly crash and disappear after reboot. I shut down and disconnected the SATA cable, rebooted to BIOS, shut down, re-connected the SATA cable, rebooted and everything was fine. It's done this three times in the past week. At this point, I'm not keen on paying return shipping on another RMA or getting another P3 series SSD as they have proven, at least for me, unreliable. I would happily take a force gt equivalent in exchange if at all possible. I hope Corsair can help me out as the customer service I've received in the past has been excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madnisman Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I would happily take a force gt equivalent in exchange if at all possible. You should request an RMA, describe your issues (you can reference to this thread) and ask for an exchange to another model. Afaik RAM GUY and Yellowbeard can not decide this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkcyde Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 I plan on submitting an RMA on Mon. Just venting a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms82 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I don't think Corsair sources the P3 line anymore since it was a failure on all fronts (bad performance, no firmware updates at all, reliablity issues etc). I rma'd mine with the exact issues you had. clean system, ahci, connected to intel p67 chipset port. they said it was on indefinite backorder and offered me a Force GT instead which I happily took. It's literally twice as fast in benchmarks for the same price...so yeah, ask for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeven Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I don't think Corsair sources the P3 line anymore since it was a failure on all fronts (bad performance, no firmware updates at all, reliablity issues etc). I rma'd mine with the exact issues you had. clean system, ahci, connected to intel p67 chipset port. they said it was on indefinite backorder and offered me a Force GT instead which I happily took. It's literally twice as fast in benchmarks for the same price...so yeah, ask for one. My disc has the same benchmark as given from Corsair. But I`m dissapointed that they NOT release any FW to prove better performance. The disc is reliable and so far I`ve no issues eccept one (probably a KBxxxxxxxx update from windows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkcyde Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Well after yet another secure erase and reformat, I still get random BSODs. Second RMA started, Case #: 2457061 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbean2u Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Well after 8 months of trouble free use, my RMA'd SSD started to randomly crash and disappear after reboot. I shut down and disconnected the SATA cable, rebooted to BIOS, shut down, re-connected the SATA cable, rebooted and everything was fine. It's done this three times in the past week. At this point, I'm not keen on paying return shipping on another RMA or getting another P3 series SSD as they have proven, at least for me, unreliable. I would happily take a force gt equivalent in exchange if at all possible. I hope Corsair can help me out as the customer service I've received in the past has been excellent. I've had the exact same issue, and after dealing with this second drive for the past 3 weeks, I am breaking down and starting the RMA process yet again. /extremely frustrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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