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What exactly can cause a BSOD???

salvego

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Hello everybody!

 

Well, I'm kinda confused here. Let me tell you my little story:

 

I have a Dell Latitude E5400 laptop. Six months ago I bought a Corsair Force GT 240 Gb Sata 3 to have a speed boost on this machine. Actually I had an incredible speed boost for everything. It was a great time!

 

All was fine until last friday. The PC went BSOD out of the blue.

This machine is not used extensively, it's just a machine for a temp which works here in the office. Even after trying to update de firmware (which I couldn't - here: http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116844) and formating, and installing a fresh W7, I'm still getting BSOD in the instalattion screen of the W7.

 

Ok, so, I did a little reaserch and I found out that a lot of Corsair SSD's was related to BSOD's and everything. Ok. But first I have remembered that this specific SSD was on warranty yet. So I called the reseller, and he asked me to send the SSD, and if they saw the error on their end, they would exchange for another SSD.

 

But, just for precaution, I started trying to reproduce the same BSOD using the SSD on other machines here in the office.

 

Guess what? I HAD NONE BSOD. NONE.

 

Now you should ask me: Did you try to put another HD in that Dell? Yes! I did and the laptop is working without a problem.

 

Now, my question: what could be causing this BSOD?

 

Some hypotheses (and some answers):

 

- Could be the instalation of W7? No, I tried a fresh instalattion. I can't even install it. I'm getting BSOD while installing it.

- Could be the SSD? Maybe... but why it works without a problem in other machines?

- Could be cables or the SATA conection? Maybe... but why it works with other HD without a problem?

- Could be some kind of incompatibility? Why, if it worked for 6 months without a problem?

 

 

Can, someone please tell me I'm a dumb person and I can't see the answer in front of my eyes?

 

:bigeyes:

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

 

PS.:

The SSD is a Corsair Force GT 240g Sata 3

The Laptop is a Dell Latitude E5400 Intel Core 2 Duo T7250

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It may be a bad install or the drive is not connected properly.

 

Have you tried secure erasing the drive with Parted magic and reinstalling Windows?

Check the drive connections, Is the drive loose when installed?

Latest BIOS?

Are you installing Windows via a USB or DVD?

If USB, try a DVD.

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It may be a bad install or the drive is not connected properly.

 

Have you tried secure erasing the drive with Parted magic and reinstalling Windows?

Check the drive connections, Is the drive loose when installed?

Latest BIOS?

Are you installing Windows via a USB or DVD?

If USB, try a DVD.

 

Probably it's a connection problem. I'm not sure yet. I'm still making some other tests and I will post the results here. One aspect I didn't mention before is that the SSD was extremely hot when the BSOD ocurred. I didn't notice these high temperatures on other machines. Should I conduct temperature and stress tests? Could be this related???

 

Now, answering your questions:

Have you tried secure erasing the drive with Parted magic and reinstalling Windows?

YES

 

Check the drive connections, Is the drive loose when installed?

NO. The SSD is properly connected like any other HD I put on this Laptop.

 

Latest BIOS?

Checked. Lastest BIOS.

 

Are you installing Windows via a USB or DVD?

If USB, try a DVD.

Already trying via DVD. Never tried via USB. Maybe I should?

But it looks like is not related to the DVD installation, since the BSOD occurs when I first type the username and name of the computer. All files has already been copied to the machine and the DVD is iddle.

 

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me!

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First check if you can install onto another drive at all with UNPLUGGED corsair, if not, it's DEFINETLY NOT the corsair-drive causing the fault and the other components having a fault.

If yes, still can be the drive, so retry installing onto another drive then with the corsair PLUGGED. If it then fails on other drive too, the drive is fault and all your other compenents are DEFINETLY ok.

 

If you can'T detemrine it by that try these points:

 

1. Overclocking/Overvolting. - Simply remove it.

2. Small/Bad PSU. - Are you sure the PSU has enough constant power. Good brand or no-name? How old is it? Power decreases little over long-time. Just sayin'

3. Driver/OS-Disk-Version-Bug/Incompatibility - Download latest Win 7 SP1 + updates and load sata driver during install.

4. Driver/Firmware-Bug/Incompatibility - Flash latest firmware on another PC.

5. ANY Cables ANYWHERE in the PC are not properly connected, triple-check.

6. Its connected to Sata_0 (primary sata port), is it? If not Sata_0 is has definetly not a +1TB drive ... of course :D

7. You put SATA-Mode on AHCI in Bios, right... you didn't try IDE(SATA) or RAID.... of course, if not RE-INSTALL Win7 may be required :D

8. You let the ACPI be controlled by BIOS, right... not by the OS... of course and enabled ACPI S3 support., if not RE-INSTALL Win7 may be required :D

 

OMG didnt recognize it was notebook. Sry. Mostly chipset incompatiblity/flaw betweed SATA-Controller/FW and Disk/FW and OS/driver. You should try loading latest sata driver during the win7 setup.

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