Firmware Update for Microcenter/Adata Sandforce S599 SSD

For those of you who have had hibernation/sleep issues with your Microcenter/Adata Sandforce SSD, this firmware update was released yesterday that fixes the issue:

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The update program must be run in admin mode and works on boot and non boot drives.

 

Except that it doesn't work, at all: Run the firmware updater as administrator, choose the update pkg file, pick the drive you want to update, click "download firmware to device" and when it's done, it force-reboots your computer (no "reboot now / reboot later" prompt) and just reboots into windows, firmware not applied.

The instructions just basically explain what is obvious to anyone reading this discussion forum (which I just explained above) and doesn't work. I'd love it if my computer would not freeze after coming back to it after it goes idle...

chatter here seems to be that for some it just works, and for others, like me, it just doesn't work. Not sure what else to try, other than a boot into safe mode or boot off a USB key and try it from a command prompt... which is a whole hell of a lot of hassle to prepare a bootable CD with the firmware bundle on it to have it not work, either. EDIT: and the one user who claims the firmware update worked for him no problem says that the firmware itself is causing temperature reporting and SMART problems... so... wait, maybe...

 

I had the same problem but got it working now, I blame the stupid guide they had on the site, you need to put your computer on AHCI mode to enable in BIOS, then update Intel inf if you have Intel chipset. You may also need to change something in the registry to avoid blue screen after you try to reboot after changing the ACHI setting in BIOS. Anyways, it works finally.