SSD not recognized in BIOS

A Cheese Danish · Sep 16, 2011

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?

CDdude55 · Sep 16, 2011

Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.

A Cheese Danish · Sep 16, 2011

CDdude55 said:
Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.

I'll have to take a look. I don't remember passing a setting for that.

tritron · Sep 16, 2011

Did you try diffrent sata controler settings ? I would change settings to ide ahci raid and try to boot

A Cheese Danish · Sep 16, 2011

No settings for AHCI/IDE mode. I'm going to try the drive in my laptop.

A Cheese Danish · Sep 16, 2011

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.

Jegergrim · Sep 16, 2011

CDdude55 said:
Have you made sure that AHCI is enabled in BIOS?, it could of somehow defaulted to IDE.

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?

seronx · Sep 16, 2011

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?

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

Feizy · Sep 16, 2011

RMA it, I had a problem with an SSD with the same "failure to initialize" error. It was dead.

A Cheese Danish · Sep 16, 2011

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

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.

I have the RMA already placed.

Thanks guys

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Motherboard	Zotac 890GX-ITX WiFi\|\|Lenovo 8918CTO
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System Name	HTPC\|\|Lenovo IBM ThinkPad
Processor	AMD Phenom II x4 965 stock 3.4GHz\|\|Intel C2D T9300 @ 2.5GHz
Motherboard	Zotac 890GX-ITX WiFi\|\|Lenovo 8918CTO
Cooling	Stock 3x 120's\|\|Stock stuff
Memory	8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 6-6-6-15\|\|3GB DDR2
Video Card(s)	Asus 3870x2\|\|nVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Storage	1TB Seagate Barracuda, 1x 2TB WD EARX \|\|Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM
Display(s)	Samsung T260HD\|\|
Case	SilverStone Grandia GD05\|\|
Audio Device(s)	on-board\|\|on-board
Power Supply	Cooler Master 450W\|\|6-cell
Software	Windows 7 Pro x64\|\|Windows 7 Pro x64/Linux Mint x64

System Name	HTPC\|\|Lenovo IBM ThinkPad
Processor	AMD Phenom II x4 965 stock 3.4GHz\|\|Intel C2D T9300 @ 2.5GHz
Motherboard	Zotac 890GX-ITX WiFi\|\|Lenovo 8918CTO
Cooling	Stock 3x 120's\|\|Stock stuff
Memory	8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 6-6-6-15\|\|3GB DDR2
Video Card(s)	Asus 3870x2\|\|nVidia Quadro NVS 140M
Storage	1TB Seagate Barracuda, 1x 2TB WD EARX \|\|Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM
Display(s)	Samsung T260HD\|\|
Case	SilverStone Grandia GD05\|\|
Audio Device(s)	on-board\|\|on-board
Power Supply	Cooler Master 450W\|\|6-cell
Software	Windows 7 Pro x64\|\|Windows 7 Pro x64/Linux Mint x64

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