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    Corruption....AGAIN! Bad drive? Bad laptop? Bad drivers?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mvalpreda, Apr 27, 2011.

  1. mvalpreda

    mvalpreda Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm going on my 3rd rebuild of my Dell E6420 with a 256GB Crucial C300. First time I did a Windows update and the computer went into a reboot loop and it was always trying to repair Windows files. Rebuilt, used all the Dell drivers, went along my way....chalked it up to a bad update. Happened AGAIN when I was updating some TPM firmware so I chalked it up to that. Rebuilt, used all the Dell drivers again. Start up my computer this morning after the patches yesterday and it came up but I was not getting an IP address. I reboot, no dice. I look and see a bunch of services were not started. I figured a bunk update. I go to System Restore, roll back to yesterday and boom....back to the reboot loop trying to fix boot files.

    I don't know what's going on here....but the only thing that is different from the way this machine shipped is the 256GB Crucial C300 SSD. Is it possible I got a bad one? Could the RST drivers on Dell's site be an issue?

    I just want a stable machine! Sick of rebuilding!
     
    mvalpreda, Apr 27, 2011
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    Does reinstalling the OS on a known good hard drive work fine? If it does than possibly an issue with your C300.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Apr 27, 2011
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    It seems to be ok....but the C300 seems ok for a few days, a week, etc as well.

    I was reading a few people who have blamed corruption on Intel RST drivers. Older ones aren't all that SSD friendly is what it sounded like.
     
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    This won't help much but the sata III drives have had problems with LPM and RST. The only issue they had was stuttering. A quick search gave me a solution that took all of 2 minutes to do, which was mess with something in the registry. (I think this only applies to sata III drives and interfaces.) My C400 has been flawless for the last couple of weeks since I got it. I would try a fresh install, then do a fresh install on an external. If the problem happens again, boot from the external and see what you get. That will tell you if it's the C300.
     
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    Rebuilt it yesterday and used some newer RST drivers. Dell version was 10.1.0.1008 and the ones I used were 10.1.5.1001. Shall see what happens in the next few days/weeks.

    I don't notice stuttering but I did see the LPM registry change. I had done that previously. I'm going to hold off on that for now....
     
    mvalpreda, Apr 28, 2011
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    Phil, Apr 29, 2011
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