x220 - Help! Autoupdate broke my mSATA

I've had onsite here for 4 hours yesterday trying to fix this -- basically this is what happened (the title is a little misleading but oh well):

2 weeks ago did auto-update and installed rapid-drive and BIOS 1.24 (from 1.21). After this machine constantly got hot and the fan AND spinning drive runs all the time. The spinning drive running is my biggest concern. It runs even in linux which led me to believe it was the BIOS and not the software for rapid drive (which I uninstalled).

Guy came and replaced my system board -- bios on there was 1.21. Same problems. Spinning drive running constantly and fan on constantly. Tried updating to latest (1.25 bios) and still the same problem.

Can anyone please help me with this? Lenovo wants me to send it to depot but I have a feeling they will just ship it back saying there is nothing wrong.

Before this happened the fan hardly ever ran and the spinning drive was off unless I was playing a movie or something off of it. All my OS is on my mSATA. Before my machine was so cool and quiet now it is quite annoying and I am worried it will diminish the lifespan of the machine. Thanks guys I'm not really sure what else to do.

dibbs

 

All I had were rainbow and gumdrop mountain dreams about life after I installed my mSata (it hasn't come in yet). Now I'm frightened

Hope somebody here can help you out!

 

RapidDrive Advanced will move all of your documents to the spinning drive. Hence, any access will cause the drive to wake up or keep spinning.

AFAIK, it's just a Windows driver.

Not sure why it's happening under Linux; might be a different software issue there.

 

Thanks Colonel. I realize that. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't uninstall properly. Any idea how I might check this? It doesn't come up in the thinkvantage toolbox anymore which leads me to believe it may have left fragments around or something. No user files on are the spinner drive though.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? Please?

 

you may want to boot up a clean version of Windows from an external device (cd or usb key) and see if the behavior is still present. If it is, it may be a bios setting you need to change.

 

If you are running Windows, resmon will tell you exactly what is using the disk. To run resmon, click the Windows Start pearl then type resmon on the search field. Hit enter on resmon.exe. You can learn a lot about what is going on in a system with this tool.

Another excellent tool is HWiNFO64 at HWiNFO64 Download which will let you inspect exactly what is going on with the fan speed, turbo boost, etc.

Most folks don't have a good understanding of the Lenovo ThinkPad BIOS settings used in conjunction with Lenovo ThinkPad Power Manager profiles. HWiNFO64 will show you exactly what happens when you tweak settings.