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    R2 - SSD BSOD problem. (Samsung 830 - 128gb)

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bennylaws, Dec 20, 2011.

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    bennylaws Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone!

    Since I installed my new SSD as OS drive (HDD0 slot) in my R2 I experience blue screens when waking up from standby or hibernate.
    Everything else works just fine.

    Anyone an idea?

    I installed INTEL drivers, checked for firmware upgrade and so on.
    Windows7 is updated as well.
    Everything goes fine and fast, except this wakeup issue.
    Can't find anything via google or forum search.

    I never had failures like that before installing the SSD, so I presume the SSD is the problem :-/

    I'd appreciate every little hint!
     
    bennylaws, Dec 20, 2011
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    in your bios, do you have the ability to turn off S3 sleep mode? I'd give that a try
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 20, 2011
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    Hi, my A10 original BIOS does not provide this option.
    I also disabled all the OC I've done in order to eliminate this to be the possible problem.
    But the failure persists.
     
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    benny, are you in raid or ahci ?
     
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    I have AHCI and before I used 2 times 620 GB normal HDD (original in raid, but changed it to AHCI to double the capacity) and now 128 GB SSD as OS drive plus the "second" 620 hdd for other data.
     
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    Problem solved, more or less...
    after some testing I realized, it is not the SSD, causing the problem.
    The failure only comes up, when the external monitor is connected and I try to wake up the system then from stanby or hibernate... with the internal screen only, it works perfectly! What do you suggest?
    Graphics driver maybe?
    I should annotate, that I recently installed the single ATI HD 6990M into my M17x R2. The problem seems to exist since this upgrade.
    Greets
     
    bennylaws, Dec 23, 2011
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