The SSD is a G.Skill Pheonix Pro 60GB - Firmware 3.1 (Purchased Nov 2010) which I was using as my Windows 7 drive since I got it. It was hooked up to a Phenom x6 1090T & Gigabyte 890FX-UD5 rev 2.1.
Everything was fine up till a few days ago when it was noted that Windows 7 would boot, get past the welcome screen then stop responding within 30 seconds of logging it. I thought it was virus, so reformatted the drive and started again. Everything seemed fine again and I filled up the drive with about 35Gb of data, no problems. Then yesterday again Win 7 started logging in, within about 30 seconds, stopped responding. Interestingly everytime I reset the comp after the crash, the BIOS would not detect the SSD. Once I switched it off then on again, it would be detected again!
So now I have booted from my WD mechanical drive with no problems at all. I am thinking my SSD is dying. When I ran crystaldisk it showed health to be 100% Good on the SSD. As a slave drive Win 7 will not format/install/detect the SSD for longer than 30 seconds.
Is there any way I can test the drive before I RMA it? I have tried updating it to the latest firmware but it doesn't remain detected by windows for long enough the update tool to even detect it!
Everything was fine up till a few days ago when it was noted that Windows 7 would boot, get past the welcome screen then stop responding within 30 seconds of logging it. I thought it was virus, so reformatted the drive and started again. Everything seemed fine again and I filled up the drive with about 35Gb of data, no problems. Then yesterday again Win 7 started logging in, within about 30 seconds, stopped responding. Interestingly everytime I reset the comp after the crash, the BIOS would not detect the SSD. Once I switched it off then on again, it would be detected again!
So now I have booted from my WD mechanical drive with no problems at all. I am thinking my SSD is dying. When I ran crystaldisk it showed health to be 100% Good on the SSD. As a slave drive Win 7 will not format/install/detect the SSD for longer than 30 seconds.
Is there any way I can test the drive before I RMA it? I have tried updating it to the latest firmware but it doesn't remain detected by windows for long enough the update tool to even detect it!
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