XPS 17 L702X with Win7 SP1 (and vertex 3) resume always crashes with BSOD (BugCheck)

Currently i always have a problem when i resume from suspend.
Then a few seconds later it crashes with a BSOD, most of the time with a BugCheck error code 0xf4

i think it is related to this:

BSoD 0x000000f4 Windows 7 SP1 installed on an SSD on Dell Studio 1555 waking from sleep or hibernation

there they are talking about changing stuff like:

Boot into BIOS Setup
Go to Power options
Change the "ACPI S3 Hard Disk Reset" option to "Enable"

and that is a problem because we don't have any power options in the bios.. At least i can't find them

What does seem to work for me is going to hibernate and resuming from that. (but i do need to test that a bit more)

It looks like something doesn't want to wake up from sleep or something like that. I also installed the hotfix they are mentioning here:

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-7/975882-windows-7-hibernate-resume-problem.html

But that doesn't seem to affect me.
Anybody else have some idea? Or something similar?

EDIT: and i don't really want to use hibernate to disk all the time because that would mean that i write twice a day 12GB so thats 24GB per day only suspending.. Thats quite a lot of data for an SSD

 

<strike>The hibernation file is never deleted and only grows in size if it has to, so it should always be writing to the same block of sectors.</strike>

 

and and SSD will make sure that it will not write the the same block of sectors (== flash pages) because a flash cell can only be written around 3000 times

So if hibernate will write out 12GB of my memory (the file is a little bit smaller its around 9.5GB) then the SSD will constantly write that to different pages of flash else if it would write the the same cells over and over again, those cells will be worn out way quicker then the rest
Ofcourse 3000 times is a lot, even if it would just be suspend/resume on the same cells then i could do that 3000/twice a day/365 = 4 years.

 

Remember, even my C400 which is rated at only 72TB of total data written before it dies, would take 40GB worth of writing every day for 5 years to meet that quota. By then, any enthusiast (I'm assuming you are because of your vertex purchase) will have a newer drive by then.

On a side note: OCZ has been having these problems resuming from hibernate/suspend since the launch of the Vertex 2's, and have yet to fix the issue. This is one reason I chose the slightly slower C400. I wish I had any valuable info for you, but it's seems only OCZ can fix this issue with a firmware update. This is of course, if I'm understanding the problem your having.

 

Of course, duh. That makes total sense. The SSD info I saw always talked about new files, not changing a single file. Thanks.

 

But how do we know it is the Vertex?
That's the biggest problem i currently have it is a very generic error that other people also do encounter with Win7 SP1 ..
So i don't know what is really the cause..

The vertex does come up just fine, at least it can write the memory dump to disk.. But it could be that it is not fast enough?

 

ok i seem to have fixed this issue, maybe this will help others:

What i had installed where the latest chipset drivers from the Dell site:

Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 1C03

the inf file has this info:

CatalogFile=cougahci.cat
DriverVer=09/10/2010, 9.2.0.1011

Then i downloaded the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...=3321&lang=eng

and installed those

Then the device manager reported "Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipdset SATA AHCI Controller" (iaStore driver) with as version: 10.1.0.1008 my guess is that this one is a bit newer then the , 9.2.0.1011 reported above (if you can compare those)

But now my suspend problem seems to be gone, at least i have tried it now about 5 times and every time it wakes up quickly and i can login

The problem i am now getting is the "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period."

But i think i have seen a solution for that somewhere , that was related to LPM (Link Power Management)

I have added these registry settings to see if that will fix that problem:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port0]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port1]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port2]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port3]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port4]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port5]
"LPM"=dword:00000000
"LPMDSTATE"=dword:00000000
"DIPM"=dword:00000000

 

I did the same thing to my L502x yesterday, and it seems to fix the random stutering it was having. It is due to the Link Power Management and Intel Rapid Storage Technology, and is affecting all new SATA III drives (at least the vertex 3, C400/M4, and even affected the older C300). I, however, did not have any bsod's or any other hibernate/suspend problems. Only a random 15 sec. stutter out of the blue every now and then. I'll report back on whether or not this fixed my issue once I get a few hours of run time on my laptop.

 

you didn't have the BSOD because you are already using the "real" intel drivers and because of that you had the stuttering.
I didn't have the stutter but the BSOD because i used the Dell intel drivers.
But now i also have the stuttering now and then, but i have now added those registry settings and will see if that also killed that problem,

 

The default Dell-provided driver should be 10.1.2.1004 with a date of 1/12/2011... At least that's the version I have in my C:\Drivers\Chipset_IRST\f6flpy-x64 folder, and the version in the latest Dell-provided package. It should be called "Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller".

Of course I don't have an SSD to test this, but I don't know why both drivers you're using, joco, are older.

 

i don't know exactly what the default drivers are, i did replace the drive but i just downloaded the latest from here:

Downloads

edit: ahh now i see it there are 2 driver packages that both have AHCI drivers, this is the latest one:

http://support.euro.dell.com/suppor...dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=453259

 

Just wanted to give an update on the possible fix for the stuttering issues with my (and other's) sata III ssd's. After changing the registry, I have spent a few hours with the machine and have yet to see any stuttering. This would normally happen every 20-30 minutes, so I think the registry fix is an actual fix for the stuttering issues.

 

after a few days now i can say that all the problems are gone,
i can suspend/resume and i don't have those hickups anymore with the LPM fix.

 

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So please can you tell me step by step what you did?