Issues with Kingston SSD HyperX in Port1

Hello all,

This morning when I booted up windows was telling me that it needed to repair itself. So I let it do its song and dance and well didn't fix anything. I have reinstalled drivers so much and as we all know the lovely BSOD that occur during installation I decided to just do a clean install of Windows since I just installed the new 12.3 drivers last night.

Start the process, gets to 30% and get a install error "cannot find setup files". So I think maybe its my disc so I tried another install disc.. same error. So I now I am thinking its my drive. It seems that computer problems always happen on the weekend.

Just for kicks I moved the drive to Port0 and tried to install. Low and behold, windows installs fine.

So now I am thinking that either my drive has a issues with Sata3 speeds or my Port1 is bad.

I am finishing up my driver installs now and will try moving the drive back to Port1 just to see if I have the same issues.

Anyone experience the same issues I am having?

 

i've never heard of this one...but keep us updated as it may be invaluable for others who inevitably come across this +

 

Ahh when it rains it pours. So it is intermittently freezing on bootup in Port0 and now my DVD drive wont take a disc..

I think I am just going to get a Crucial M4 since that seems to be the most reliable drive for our machines.

Then I get to call Dell next so they can get me a new drive w00t

***Edit*** Just a update it seems that my problems may have all be a result of a bad stick of Memory. One of my 4GB HyperX sticks are bad. Moved my SSD back to Port1 and Pulled the bad stick and things seem to be ok sans my DVD drive being broke.

Just ordered a new pair of HyperX PnP 1600s they should be here on Monday so I am hoping that it is just that.

 

Hi , we have the same ssd and Alien plus or minus

Have you updated HyperX firmware?

Have you A08 bios on your Alien?

Can you please post a screen of CrystalDiskBench?

This is mine and i think it is very slow

 

Yes I have the latest firmware for my HyperX and Running Bios A08. Below is my Crystaldisk score from when I got it. Our scores as you can see are in the same ballpark so I wouldn't worry too much.

 

Slow? Nah I don't think so. They are perfectly fine for a SandForce Drive. Look at the ATTO disk benchmark. Just as advertised

 

Thank you Idlehand.


widezu69 Kingston say 555 / 510 mb/s R/W for seq my result are only 453 / 168 .

The 4k is not very bad but the others ?

Your Samsung PM830 are awesome

 

there is a new HyperX firmware that declare increase of wright speed

 

kakaroth, you need to do some more research on SSD speeds. The advertised speeds are the ATTO benchmarks. Crystal Disk Mark uses compressible data which SandForce drives do no fair well with. Run the ATTO benchmark and you will see the correct speeds.