Craig B. Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I have had this drive Neutron GTX 240GB for a few months. I installed Win7 64 bit with no issues. The boot time after bios was about 15 seconds. The last few weeks, cold booting is occasionally causing a quick bluescreen and then a reboot to windows which starts slowly. Most days now a cold boot is taking 1-2 minutes after bios screen. This seems to be getting worse. My system does not have AHCI so I cannot update the firmware of the drive. Computer has never frozen or had issues after booting up. Blue screen viewer does not show any blue screen info. Help Please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Have you tried a different SATA data cable and motherboard port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig B. Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 Have you tried a different SATA data cable and motherboard port? I have tried that. Stop codes are below. Far as I can see, boot device not found? Technical Information: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A98E8, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0X000000000..., 0X00000000....) {The last 2 are just zeros} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 If possible can you try the SSD on another computer or a USB enclosure? Does the SSD work fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snfo Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Do a disk error cheking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig B. Posted November 8, 2013 Author Share Posted November 8, 2013 If possible can you try the SSD on another computer or a USB enclosure? Does the SSD work fine? I suspect that my bios may be the issue. Good excuse to upgrade the system. Trying the drive on another computer would ruin my windows key after bringing it back to this system. No errors on the drive itself. Thank-You for your input. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I suspect that my bios may be the issue. Good excuse to upgrade the system. Trying the drive on another computer would ruin my windows key after bringing it back to this system. No errors on the drive itself. Thank-You for your input. :) It shouldn't affect it if you connect it as a slave drive. Don't try to boot from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HintonEast Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I had my Windows 7 (64 bit) doing the BSOD on and off. Then more each day. I tried all the normal troubleshooting. But when I tried to use Acronis to backup my Drive C, it was getting a bunch of Read errors off my Neutron GTX 240GB. SO - after 4 hours of trouble shooting, I told the store I bought it from 10 months prior, to please send me another. Once I sent it to them, they proved it was bad. I received a new one. So far, so good. I have 13 months left of my special in store warranty. PS. I was told by their tech's, the normal windows Chkdsk and other tools, won't show the SSD drive failing. They said I can use HD Tune for that. (maybe next time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig B. Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 It shouldn't affect it if you connect it as a slave drive. Don't try to boot from it. Well, loaded win7 on another computer in AHCI mode so I could update my firmware from M306 to M311. It updated fine. Took the drive back to original system, changed the SATA2 cable to the 6gb rated cable and booted. To my delight, drive is booting fine for 2 days now. Time will tell. Well, it wasn't broke but was getting there so I 'fixed' it [i Hope] with a firmware upgrade. Thanks to all who chimed in on my issue. I will post an update later next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Fingers crossed, hope this helped. ::pirate:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig B. Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Took the SSD drive out of the system. Was getting BSOD every morning and then having to restart 4-5 times to run in a normal manner. Too much work. Went back to a mechanical drive and no issues. Paid a lot of $$ for the SSD. I am disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 When you have the time, What were the BSOD error codes? Have you tried secure erasing the SSD and reinstall Windows. Does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig B. Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A98E8, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0X000000000..., 0X00000000....) {The last 2 are just zeros} I will move the drive to another computer. If I still have issues I may ask for a RMA. This only happens on cold booting. Once the system is running, which takes a lot of time now a restart is fine. I am also getting BSOD when system is not being used for 2 or so hours. I never had any of these issues with the old mechanical drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snfo Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Also had similar problem with a GTX 128 (Very slowwww boot time and some hangs) on a old laptop and the cause is probably the lack of AHCI. On a more recent one it works like a charm. About the BSOD after 2 hours my problem was with the anti-virus. Uninstalled the anti-virus Did a check disk, installed ... and now its working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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