https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/problem-with-intel-ssd-520-120gb-installed-in-old-laptop/m-p/22230#M10343 <P>Hello Pappas,</P><P></P><P>Actually the issue might be related to compatibility due to the age of your system. You may want to test the SSD in a different system if possible.</P><P></P><P>I hope this helps.</P> Tue, 07 May 2013 22:17:41 GMT Jose_H_Intel1 2013-05-07T22:17:41Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/problem-with-intel-ssd-520-120gb-installed-in-old-laptop/m-p/22229#M10342 <P>Hi there. I have an Acer Aspire 5673WLMi which I bought before sever years. </P><P>The characteristics of it are:</P><UL><LI>Intel Core Duo processor T2400 1,83GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache</LI><LI>ATI Radeon X1600 512 MB HyperMemory</LI><LI>120 GB SATA HDD</LI><LI>2GB DDR2 RAM (support dual channel</LI></UL><P>I am very pleased of it until now but I decided to have windows 7 or 8 because I get tired of XP. So I decided to upgrade it and instead of buying memory I thought to buy an ssd HDD. I bought the Intel 520 series 120GB SSD. I connected it and i started the installation of windows 8. Everything became good, the copying of the files lasted a few seconds, the installation finished and it rebboted the machine and …. everything started from here.</P><P></P><P>After reboot the PC freezes in black screen. I thought something became wrong and I decided to do again the installation but this time the PC doesn't started with the win8 DVD. I tried to install win7 professional and again the same: the installation finished and after reboot it freezed in a black screen and again I couldn't start with the win7 cd. After that I tried to start the PC with Ubuntu 9.04 installation DC, with Puppy Linux DC and many others but nothing. I succeeded once to start it with Acronis Bootable CD and I deleted the partition from SSD in order to do a clean installation but I can't start it with any operation system CD.</P><P></P><P>I putted again the old disk, started XP and PCwizard and saw that it doesn't support SATA II, but I believe(although I 'm not sure!) this is not the problem because the ssd hdd is SATA III but compatible with SATA II too. I also saw that the motherboard chipset (Intel i945PM, 82801GBM (ICH7-M/U) LPC Interface Controller )</P><P>doesn't support TRIM functions.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas; Thanks</P> Mon, 06 May 2013 10:31:31 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/problem-with-intel-ssd-520-120gb-installed-in-old-laptop/m-p/22229#M10342 idata 2013-05-06T10:31:31Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/problem-with-intel-ssd-520-120gb-installed-in-old-laptop/m-p/22230#M10343 <P>Hello Pappas,</P><P></P><P>Actually the issue might be related to compatibility due to the age of your system. You may want to test the SSD in a different system if possible.</P><P></P><P>I hope this helps.</P> Tue, 07 May 2013 22:17:41 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/problem-with-intel-ssd-520-120gb-installed-in-old-laptop/m-p/22230#M10343 Jose_H_Intel1 2013-05-07T22:17:41Z