Electrospeed Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I have a pre-built computer, and it's getting slow. I'm pretty fluent in computer (but I don't have much money), so I decided to buy a refurbished Corsair F120 120 GB SSD for $60. I used a couple of tools to migrate my OS from my 1 TB HDD to the SSD, and when I booted it up for the first time, it worked great; it was super fast, and I had no compatibility issues. I played a couple of games, and it worked great, until I turned it off so I could boot from my old HDD in order to find some settings I had forgotten. When I restarted the computer to boot from the SSD, it booted from the HDD. I had set the boot order to SSD first, so I thought that was a bit weird. I restarted again, and went to manually boot from the SSD in the UEFI menu. It was not there. I went into the BIOS and the SSD was not there under storage. I restarted again, and this time, after going into the manual boot settings, I was able to boot from the SSD again. I chalked it up to a loose cable, so I turned it off and adjusted the cables, and then booted it back up and it went straight to the SSD, so I thought nothing of it. I installed it 2 days ago, and anytime I've needed to boot from the SSD, the BIOS refused to recognize it until I restarted a few times. I figured something was loose, and since the warranty has expired (probably), and it was only $60, I figured I'd just have to deal with it, since it had been booting after a few restarts... ...Until last night. I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep so I went downstairs and did some late night gaming. It was the same old story: It took a few tries, but eventually it booted up. I got a solid hour of gaming in before my game froze. My mouse could move, so I figured the game had crashed, and pressed the Windows logo so I could get to the start bar to open the task manager. The start bar came up on top of my game, but the Start Menu did not. When I attempted to click on it, it gave me the white hourglass of doom. I could move the FRAPS window around on my second monitor, so I thought it was just a major hang-up. Boy, was I wrong. I waited 10 minutes, to no avail. I did a hard reset. The computer booted to the HDD, again. I attempted to boot from the SSD again, and after a few tries, I got it to work. Then, after 2 minutes, the same situation happened again: a total freeze-up. I did the above once more, with the same results. I then attempted to boot again, but had no luck, and this time I mean, absolutely no luck. The BIOS refuses to acknowledge the existence of the SSD, and I've tried everything. Booting to the HDD reveals nothing. I checked my BIOS settings, and SATA emulation was set to AHCI, just like it should be. I checked cables, they appeared to be fine also. I know that SSDs have a finite number of writes they can sustain before they conk out, but this SSD is not that old, at least from what I can tell. So, the big question, is it dead? Did I do something wrong? Is it fixable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 When did you buy the refurb drive? Corsair has a 30 day warranty from purchase date. http://www.corsair.com/us/support/warranty/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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