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SSD not recognized in BIOS

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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?
 
Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.
 
CDdude55 said:
Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.
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I'll have to take a look. I don't remember passing a setting for that.
 
Did you try diffrent sata controler settings ? I would change settings to ide ahci raid and try to boot
 
No settings for AHCI/IDE mode. I'm going to try the drive in my laptop.
 
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.
 
CDdude55 said:
Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.
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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?
 
Jegergrim said:
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
 
seronx said:
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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That's what I was thinking.

Feizy said:
RMA it, I had a problem with an SSD with the same "failure to initialize" error. It was dead.
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I have the RMA already placed.

Thanks guys
 
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