thetundrawolf Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Hello, I have a Performance 3 SATA 128GB SSD. And I love it. I love it. I love it, very much. Did I mention I love it? Recently, the BIOS screen has started to take a little too long to clear. I wasn't sure to make of it, until I saw the HDD light on. (It's a Toshiba laptop) The HDD light will go out, and the screen will go away, and the laptop will work fine. From sleep mode, sometimes the screen is black for a while, about 15-20 seconds, and just yesterday I noticed, the HDD light is also on, steady for that period of time. When the light goes out,t he computer immediately resumes windows. Like the HDD is trying to negotiate, or be read by the motherboard for that amount of time, or something. So, i updated my BIOS to the latest version, and that didn't do anything. It's only recently started doing this, and I made sure it is plugged in "All the way". Can anyone shed some light on what might be going on, here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted May 22, 2013 Administrators Share Posted May 22, 2013 This could be a hardware or software issue. If you can, please try it in a different PC. I'd recommend creating a support ticket at http://corsair.force.com so that we can assist you further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetundrawolf Posted May 22, 2013 Author Share Posted May 22, 2013 This could be a hardware or software issue. If you can, please try it in a different PC. I'd recommend creating a support ticket at http://corsair.force.com so that we can assist you further. Thank you, I will try and run a full scandisk surface scan and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 @thetundrawolf if i had the same issue and it was fine until recently, i would try system restore to a date when it was still running proper. if that fixes it, great. may have been a windows update that maybe changed a driver or setting or even a .Dll file who knows... when my laptop behaves similarly, it's because its restoring from hibernation, not a complete shut down. but if the issue persists then i would start to suspect hardware. I don't know all the answers, I just use process of elimination to narrow it down. you are more than welcome to ask for an RMA as well, just start the process using the "RMA Request " link on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetundrawolf Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 Actually, I ran sacndisk again, and a ton of errors are popping up, now. I think I need to start an RMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 scandisk will only check for the integrity of the data, there is no "surface" to scan if thats what you selected. may be false errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetundrawolf Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 scandisk will only check for the integrity of the data, there is no "surface" to scan if thats what you selected. may be false errors. Right, I understand there is no surface scan, but it will check each block of data for readability. The errors I am getting are clusters are unreadable, and it is finding broken files that it attempts to repair, but is not successful in all of them (About half). It finds hundreds of them. I have tried updating the MHCI drivers for the speed issue to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incriminated Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Scandisk only finds and repairs logical filesystem errors. 1 Million Scandisk error does NOT mean the drive is defective. It just means that your operating systems filesystem has errors, and something is causing that. Reasons for that could be for example Registry cleaners, file cleaners or just misconfigured windows. Please check if your problem is gone after all errors are repaired. And when the problem still re-appears you should re-check scandisk. If you can temporarily solve the problem with scandisk it is probably high likely the fault of a "optimising tool". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetundrawolf Posted May 25, 2013 Author Share Posted May 25, 2013 Scandisk only finds and repairs logical filesystem errors. 1 Million Scandisk error does NOT mean the drive is defective. It just means that your operating systems filesystem has errors, and something is causing that. Reasons for that could be for example Registry cleaners, file cleaners or just misconfigured windows. Please check if your problem is gone after all errors are repaired. And when the problem still re-appears you should re-check scandisk. If you can temporarily solve the problem with scandisk it is probably high likely the fault of a "optimising tool". It is a relatively new install of windows. I try not to clutter it up, I do not have any registry cleaners/file cleaners/ anything like that. I have Google Chrome and Open Office. That's about it. Actually the scandisk froze up reading a sector and I ended up having to restart the computer. It's still slower than when I had a cluttered windows 7 install and a HDD, in fact, it's slower than even that. I think I am going to re-install windows and start over, until my RMA goes through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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