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    A warning to those who installed Windows on Zenbook UX32's onboard cache disk.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Aryanenzo, Dec 30, 2012.

  1. Aryanenzo

    Aryanenzo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a UX32VD-DB71. I used the guide on this site to install windows 7 X64 on the 32gb Sandisk onboard SSD and had it like this for about 6 months. Last night I left the computer on a table and closed the lid, but the computer did not go sleep ( Happens sometimes) so it was on all night. After coming back to it in the morning it welcomed me with a blue screen of death (Computer was well ventilated and not hot at all). After restarting the computer, I got the ASUS post and then black screen. I used a Windows 7 disk to boot from and I noticed immediately my SSD disk had disappeared from the list of disks/partitions to install to. I end up installing windows on the HDD and now no matter what partition software I use, it seems that none detect the Sandisk SSD and that I'm out of luck. I'm also getting a "PCI data Acquisition an Signal processing controller" In "Other devices" in device manager. Also another side effect was that after the ASUS post comes now, i get a 6 second long completely black screen before windows starts loading.

    I don't know if its because I had windows on the SSD but i cannot detect it with any software anymore, it has vanished. If someone knows what's going on I would greatly appreciate it. I will contact Asus but I probably won't tell them I installed Windows on the Cache.

    Edit: I figured what the "PCI data acquisition an signal processing controller" was but now I'm getting two further unknown devices
     
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    The failure of the 32gb soldered ssd is a reknowned issue for the ux32vd if you have read the main thread vigilantly. I have waited 2 months for my RMA'ed ux32vd due to the ssd issue. The date given to me is 6 Jan 2013 since I sent it back to Asus on 6 Nov 2012.

    I don't recommend anyone installing or saving anything on it.
     
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    No matter what you have installed your OS on, a good external backup is always a good idea :)
     
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    Well the only thing i had on there was Windows lolol

    I am a student, I don't think im going to be sending it back if it's 2 months. I need it for university work and it is my only computer.
     
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    Crucial M4 64 or 128 drives are not too expensive and are reliable and perform well.
     
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    Does anyone know why the BIOS post takes so much longer? I get the Asus logo come up, and then i get a black screen for about 5-6s and then it actually reads the HDD for a OS and loads windows. sigh this same sequence happened when reading off a DVD to boot. It wasn't like this before.
     
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    If the dead drive is inside then it will be running the time out clock every time trying to communicate with the controller.
     
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    Is there any way to stop this from occuring?
     
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    Take the dead drive out or disaboe the slot if your bios has an option.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 30, 2012
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