Samsung EVO 850 Boot Problem

[Ken Weise]

I got an 850 EVO for Christmas. Ran throught the cloning process and it booted right up. Fast as f***.

Then the laptop overheated and powered off (hard stop). The machine would not boot. Gets to the BIOS start-up screen, then reboots. In desperation, i put the old HDD back in.

I re-cloned the original HDD and re-installed the EVO. It again booted great and ran fast. Then I used it sitting on top of a blanket. Overheat and hard shut off. Again, no more boots.

On both failures, I can connect it via USB and windows will read it correctly.

Anyone have an idea on this? Twice in two days is not a good record. 3 hours of recloning is not fun.

Thanks,
Ken

 

[dark2099]

Seems as though something might have gotten into the fan and/or killed the fan when changing the drives. No way the SSD itself would be cause for overheating.

 

[Ken Weise]

The SSD didn't cause the overheating. The problem is that the SSD will not recover gracefully from any thing other than a proper shutdown. To try another method, I cloned my HDD to the new SSD and started up without issue. I then powered off by holding down the power button which kills the computer. No longer will it boot. So it isn't a heat problem, it is that the drive isn't shut down.