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    OCZ 120g msata ssd causing alienware m14x r2 to hang...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bigheadfish, Jun 8, 2012.

  1. bigheadfish

    bigheadfish Newbie

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    anyone experiencing the same thing? at first I thought it was my antivirus doing too many changes to system. but i reinstalled everything twice and it's still the same problem...it's a brand new alienware m14 r2. i installed win 7 and drivers software into msata and formatted hdd. straight after my drivers installation it was already beginning to hang every single time within 3 minutes into startup...can't be the problem with the laptop could it? since the hdd is formatted and empty the problem must lie in the ssd i suppose?
     
    bigheadfish, Jun 8, 2012
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    bigheadfish Newbie

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    just ran a test. everything passed except for 'smart short self test' for the msata ssd
     
    bigheadfish, Jun 8, 2012
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    Blackstealth Newbie

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    I'd suggest downloading the latest OCZ firmware for the SSD drive. My 120GB SSD drive would sometimes give me issues (not detected by BIOS) at start, updating the firmware fixed it for me.
     
    Blackstealth, Jun 8, 2012
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    AU4U Notebook Evangelist

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    New mSATA + fail SMART short test = NEW MSATA. TIME!!!!!!!!
     
    AU4U, Jun 24, 2012
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