e144539 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I thought I made a post on here before about my drive... maybe it was deleted for some reason? :confused: I got a Force GS a couple of months ago, and it has been nothing but a headache.. Lots of BSOD's and it's def the drive, and I'm not looking for a solution, I'm just curious. It froze again and I was gonna reset it by pulling the power, and noticed through the crack in the back that it has a couple of internal LED's, one red one green that stay on when the drive is working correctly... when it hangs, the green one starts flashing about twice a second... Does anyone know if that means anything diagnostically? I just updated my support ticket to ask the same question, and they just sent me a RMA form... I was waiting and hoping for a firmware update that might fix it, but I really don't think it's coming, so I guess I'll go ahead and get it over with now. :(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 A firmware update will not fix it. You will need to replace the drive. It's most likely a issue with the SATA data connection as the red L.E.D. is power and the green L.E.D. is related to the SATA connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e144539 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I thought it was a weak block that the controller was getting stuck at and refusing to mark bad because a particular disk scan program always froze in the same place, but after running it multiple times, from an outside OS, it was indicating seemingly random bad 'sectors' wrote down a couple "89448448, 66113536" which both end in "000" in hex. Not sure if that's indicative of a bug or just a coincidence :laughing: I just hope the replacement drive doesn't do the same thing because there's something rare about my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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