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SSD not recognized in BIOS

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  1. Sep 16, 2011 at 12:10 AM #1
    A Cheese Danish

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    So I installed some updates this morning, restarted my computer, then my SSD was no longer recognized in the BIOS.
    I swapped SATA ports/cables. Still nothing. I swapped power and still nothing. The drive gets power as the LED's
    on the inside of the drive are lit.

    This is my boot drive, so I'm without a desktop for now and I haven't had time to install an OS on my laptop yet.

    Should I RMA the drive for a new one? Or is there possibly a way to save what I have?
     
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  2. Sep 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM #2
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    Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.
     
  3. Sep 16, 2011 at 1:49 AM #3
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    I'll have to take a look. I don't remember passing a setting for that.
     
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    Did you try diffrent sata controler settings ? I would change settings to ide ahci raid and try to boot
     
  5. Sep 16, 2011 at 2:08 AM #5
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    No settings for AHCI/IDE mode. I'm going to try the drive in my laptop.
     
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  6. Sep 16, 2011 at 2:23 AM #6
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    Firmware is up to date. My Lenovo spat out an error: "Error 2100 Hard drive initialization error".

    I think it's time to RMA; unless someone has a better idea.
     
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  7. Sep 16, 2011 at 2:28 AM #7
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    I have an inferior knowledge on SSD's, but doesn't AHCI often slow down and/or cause huge instabilities with SSD-drives? Remembered reading it from some reviews... or is this only in few cases?
     
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    AHCI increases performance and activates NCQ and TRIM

    RAID AHCI only activates NCQ so far

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    Your SSD Controller blew up to the OP
     
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    RMA it, I had a problem with an SSD with the same "failure to initialize" error. It was dead.
     
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  10. Sep 16, 2011 at 1:32 PM #10
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    That's what I was thinking.

    I have the RMA already placed.

    Thanks guys
     
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