Oddities whilst on battery? Or is it heat?

Finding a few weird things happening when I'm on battery. Quick rundown of my system:

M17X R4 with Windows 8 installed on a Crucial M4 mSATA. 500gb HDD with an OCZ SSD cache via Intel's RST software.

Now I'm not 100% entirely sure this is a battery or heat issue, but last couple of times I've beeb using the laptop on battery, strange things start to happen after awhile. For example Firefox will crash on launch and will only start in Safe Mode. Internet Explorer will crash on launch and the mouse busy icon will appear and just flash while IE crashes (but doesn't quit). If I restart and plug the AC adapter in, the issues go away.

This has happened twice now. The first time something weirder happened in that when I restarted the laptop would not boot claiming there was no system to boot or HDD (can't recall exact message now). After a few attempts it restarted and found the system drive.

What's this all about!? Am I barking up the wrong tree and could it be a heat related issue rather then battery? In particular a heat related issue regarding the mSATA drive? I installed this myself. I just plugged it in to the slot and screwed it down.

Your thoughts please? Thank you.


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It could be that the mSATA is failing, I don´t think it's heat related it might be just a wrong drive. Have you tried running a PSA?

 

A failing mSATA!? Damn I've only had it a few weeks! What's a PSA!?


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It could have been like that since you got it. I believe this because it is the one holding the O.S and it seems like the O.S is very unstable at the moment.
Here is what a PSA is. LINK

 

Hi Chris, If it is anything to do with the msata you could try just turning off the caching, and don't use disk manager to add the drive, the OS will not see it then....

HTH

 

I've yet to have a go at sorting this (have a 6 week old baby girl eating up 99% of my time!).

Micky, what will that prove or eliminate please? I'm a little confused!


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I'm not actually sure if it has anything to do with your problem but since Luis thought it might the msata (with the OS vanishing at one point) it will just take the msata cache out of the equation. It sounds to me like the battery is not supplying enough power so components are not starting correctly or failing but I have no idea how you would identify that???

Edit: Just remembered your config!

You have your OS installed to the msata with the HDD cache on the SSD in a drive bay so ignore my suggestion - sorry.

 

Hi, any idea if the PSA can be done with EFI boot? Because you don't get the 'Press F...' etc. screen.