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Corsair F120 , proud owner with some issues/ questions

Northwood

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Northwood

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Hello, as i am the owner of a plenty new Corsair SF-1200 SSD drive, ive got some issues / questions;

 

Boot Time; from Starting Windows till the login-screen it takes from 10-15 secs, is this standard boot-time ?

 

Preformance; the retailer said 285mb / 275mb , when testing the speeds with atto i get 270mb / 250mb ?

 

what program is the best to test the read/write preformance ?

 

and the final issue;

the bloody BSOD when i put the laptop to Hibernate/ sleep and turning it back on gettin the BSOD ( is this fixable by corsair in the nearer future?

 

Regards

 

Northwood

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Synbios

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With regards to your performance, they may be a little below spec because you're using a laptop (yes I know it's an alienware, but sorry I don't think it's as fast as a true intel desktop southbridge). We even see slightly lower performance on AMD desktop southbridges. That could be the problem in addition to the fact that the drive is being used as your OS, and also it could have a lot of data on it, those advertised speeds are best case scenario when the drive is empty. I would not worry regardless, your numbers are just below spec.

 

With regards to Windows taking a long time to boot, that is unrelated to the drive and is most likely caused by unnecessary applications opening, I would check msconfig.

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i just close the lid and it hibernates i belive , guess thats S3 ?
Please look in your BIOS and see what mode it is in.

 

i ment sleep :)

whats the difference anyways? between S1 and S3 ?

 

It essentially boils down to different sleep and hibernation/power saving modes.

 

S0/Working System is on. The CPU is fully up and running; power conservation is on a per-device basis.

S1 Sleep System appears off. The CPU is stopped; RAM is refreshed; the system is running in a low power mode.

S2 Sleep System appears off. The CPU has no power; RAM is refreshed; the system is in a lower power mode than S1.

S3 Sleep (Standby) System appears off. The CPU has no power; RAM is in slow refresh; the power supply is in a reduced power mode. This mode is also referred to as 'Save To RAM'.

S4 Hibernate System appears off. The hardware is completely off, but system memory has been saved as a temporary file onto the harddisk. This mode is also referred to as 'Save To Disk'.

S5/Off System is off. The hardware is completely off, the operating system has shut down; nothing has been saved. Requires a complete reboot to return to the Working state.

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When your computer is using S4/Hibernate then you can completely remove power sources and you won't lose your session. When you turn on a computer from hibernate, it will have to POST and then where you normally see windows booting, it will say resuming instead.

 

If your computer is using S1-S3/Sleep then you cannot completely remove power sources, it will enter a "low-power" state and when you turn it back on then you will be greeted with the windows logon screen almost instantly.

 

The differences between S1, S2, and S3 are more subtle and can only be set in the BIOS. Most BIOS have switches between S1 and S3.

 

Things could also get more complicated if you're using a hybrid sleep mode, but regardless these issues should not be occurring if you have firmware 2.0. If I read your intentions correctly, I am assuming Northwood did not have firmware 2.0 initially, he updated it, and now he is testing it with the new firmware.

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If you still have this problem and you have updated to Firmware 2.0, I would suggest using suspend to disk instead and take to the system manufacturer and see if they have any updates for BIOS and or chipset that might address that issue. If its an Intel Chipset try the latest Intel Chipset driver.
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Darn, i was hasty in my conclusions,

The BSOD came back after sleep mode when the powercord was disconnected.. ive now tried everything, reinstalling drivers, etc etc...

 

this was no problem when i had the mechanical drive installed in the laptop, it came whit the SSD..

 

Alternatively i will test the hibernation-function and see wheter the problem comes back then..

other then that im quite unable to figure out the problem :(

 

regards

 

Northwood

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Northwood

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Well nothing yet, only thoose BSOD's bout different hw-errors :/

ive changed the drivers to Microsoft's AHCI driver,

it boots faster now tho , so thats a good thing.

 

im using Hibernation instead of Sleep mode now, so ill give you a feedback once something happens.

 

Cheers,

Northwood

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