Brand new Elitebook 8640p & Crucial M4 SSD

Hello all,

This morning I un-boxed a new Elitebook 8640p and instantly replaced the hard drive with a new M4 128Gb crucial drive.

The machine set up a clean install of windows, restarted etc. I then installed the drivers, restarted etc. Did a windows index score and I was instantly impressed with the 7.9 but...

The laptop will no longer boot. Just after the initial laptop screens it simply stops on a black screen where it should show the 'windows' logo. I put the original hard drive back in and the machine boots fine and I put the M4 into my desktop and it starts to boot.

So it seems that the drive is fine and the laptop is fine but together... Nope.


Any suggestions? After spending this much money I really feel like returning both items and telling both companies to stuff it but I'm calmer than that (Just).

 

Clean install and all is back to normal but I haven't installed any drivers as yet

 

I would start installing drivers one by one and rebooting after every single driver, but that takes time.

When it wasnt working, did you try to go into the recovery mode?

 

I spoke too soon... after a clean install with NO drivers just straight into Windows and after restarting a fun times and coming back from town, the same thing has happened again.

 

So.... I've managed to get the machine to boot in 20 seconds but then it won't boot at all. Enter the bios, save and restart and it boots. (Major tweaking etc)

?

 

Now it's a small bit erratic.
- Boots in 20 seconds or
- Boots after staying on the initial bios screen for an age
- Boots past the initial screen to a black screen
- Press escape, choose boot device, boots straight away.

The ssd is on the latest firmware version. This machine is going back.

+the fan is always on despite aggresive tweaking and making sure everything is on max battery (Fan always on is off in the bios)

 

Problem with boot on SSD crucial M4 256Go on ASUS ... - Page 3 - Crucial Community

Seems like it's the Crucial SSD

Still annoyed about the fan always being on! The year is 2011 HP

 

I have a 8560p with a 256GB m4 up and running.
No problems with boot or anything.

SSD and CrystalMark results as expected:
Seq read 387,83 MB/s | Seq write 254,20 MB/s
4k 19,79 MB/s | 39,08 MB/s
4k-64 153,79 MB/s | 207,91 MB/s
Access 0,067ms | 0,283ms

unfortunately this one goes to a customer this afternoon, my own 8560w is still in production.

 

You're lucky

Mine's now been returned and I would grab a 5330m if it were not for the battery life and no other battery options other than to buy a 2nd one.

8560w - Show off!

 

Hi, received several calls this morning - same problem like yours!
The 8560p initializes its BIOS too fast and boots too fast - apparently the SSD isn´t "ready" then.

What should help (until Crucial presents a solution): in the BIOS you can change a "Startup Menu Delay" to 5 seconds.
Customer hasn´t tried it yet, but it should give the m4 enough time to be ready.

I have a Crucial C300 in my 8530p and tried the m4 in my 8530p, too. But as the 8530p takes a while to initialize (2-3secs), that´s apparently enough to not create a problem.

The 8560p is just too fast

 

Shame really as a 20 second boot really is fantastic (Beaten only by an Acer 1820ptz @15 seconds).

You can apparently also soft reset Ctrl+Alt & Del at the initial screen to get it to boot straight away. I returned mine as there's no word on when Crucial will offer a fix (as usual) and I was asked to kindly shut my face on their forum

How was the fan on the unit you had? Although very quiet the fan was always on despite the bios option etc

 

actually didn´t really take notice the fan. I sit in a room with 5 collegues, there are 1-2 laptops/desktops per person running - everything short of an earthquake won´t get extra notice here.

My 8530p is almost always running, too, so I don´t really care that much