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    Help: OCZ Vector SSD not detected in VPCSA2C5E laptop

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tfboy, Jan 15, 2014.

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    Hi,
    I'm wondering if I you can help me get a new 512GB OCZ Vector SSD working in my laptop. I previously had an OCZ Agility 3 which worked fine, but having installed the new drive, it's just not detected at all in the BIOS.

    I've checked the drive works fine and it does. It has the latest 2.0 firmware installed.

    My laptop has the latest official R2087H4 BIOS. I don't know if the advanced BIOS hack would allow me to enable things that might help (AHCI, etc). pyr0 has removed the download to the modified BIOS from his thread so I haven't been able to try it. Anyone have a backup of it I can try?

    Failing that, any other suggestions? I really don't want to have to return an expensive paperweight. Having a different SSD drive working made me think I was safe with this :(

    Thanks in advance
     
    tfboy, Jan 15, 2014
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    Well, turns out I'm all OK.

    I did try an older modified BIOS and put it into AHCI (the default is in fact RAID), but made no difference. The problem was down to the fact that the RAID (and AHCI driver if in that mode) doesn't load up when booting from the USB3 port, presumably because there are no USB3 drivers. So whilst the laptop does boot from the stick, it doesn't then give you the mass storage device to pick up the drivers.
    Booting from a standard USB2 port with the RAID drivers on the stick ensured they were found and the SSD was then seen and I was able to install Windows on it.

    All in all, I feel a bit silly: the fact it's not shown in the BIOS doesn't actually seem to matter and it threw me off.

    Silly boot and loading speeds are now resumed on a 500GB partition :D
     
    tfboy, Jan 16, 2014
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