Intel X25-M G1 80GB SSD hangs/freezes in Windows 7

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About a week ago, I bought Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH080G1 80GB SATA II MLC from NewEgg.com.

I plugged in the new SSD as my main (OS) drive (all my specs are in my sig.) and started installing Windows 7. During install I split the drive into 2 partitions: 20GB for win7 & the rest. On the first attempt win7 install froze at "completing installation" stage, iirc. As it was only my 2nd attempt to install windows 7, and first attempt to install it on the desktop pc, I waited for it to "unfreeze" or continue for ~30 min. Finally I gave up and had to push the reset button. I did my first windows 7 install that very same day on my Acer AO751h netbook and it went smoothly and pretty **** fast (and is still working perfectly).

On the second attempt I was able to install windows 7 successfully. I deleted partitions during second install and recreated/formatted only 1 partition 20GB for win7. The 2nd partition I created/formatted already in windows 7. Just after installation, on my first log in to windows 7, I installed Acronis True Image Home 2009 and tried to create an image of my fresh win7 OS partition. That is something I always do, I like having last fresh windows install image for quick "fresh restore", especially in this case, as I knew there are numerous tweaks to be made, to optimize SSD drive usage. Creating the image failed, as True Image software froze and shortly after-wards windows completely froze as well. At that point I had 5 Seagate 1.5TB (ST31500341AS) drives connected to my pc. Knowing the story behind those drives and from my own experience (from the 17 Seagate 1,5TB drives I had, 2 developed freezing/hanging problems), I obviously suspected the problem was one of them. I disconnected all drives, but Intel's SSD and tried to make partition image again. I probably tried 5-6 times and all attempts failed. By now I wasn't sure, maybe True Image was not working properly on windows 7, so I gave up on making image. I used windows 7 for a couple of days, applied tweaks for SSD, like moving paging file, temp files, disabling system restore, hibernation, indexing, superfetch, defrag, firefox memory cache, etc. Windows 7 was flying, I was ecstatic seeing the performance of windows. Though time from time, windows would just freeze up and nothing helped, but the reset button.

I started googling for solutions. All I could find, that maybe Intel SSDs have trouble with nForce chipsets (ironically, neweeg product review that was posted just yesterday put me on this track).

The questions I would like to ask:

What software should I use to diagnose this SSD? I could not find any tools on Intels site, and googling for SSD diagnostic tools gave me nothing.

Is the incompatibility of nForce chipset an Intel SSD the main and only reason for these hangs and freezes? Does the new G2 drives have this problem as well? If it is, I need to think about returning this drive.

Any other ideas/solutions?

I'd be very disappointed to return it, after experiencing the performance boost it delivered, when it was working

Thanks in advance.

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I have the some problem

i have been looking online a lot for help to fix this problem , but haven't fix it yet . I Use the SSD on my laptop Dell Inspiron N7010 6 GB Ram , I5 Intel core X25-M G2 SSD 80 GB

my laptop freezes a lot ,and barely can use it .

If any one know how to fix it , please help me out .thank a lot

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http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/x25m/sb/CS-031542.htm http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/x25m/sb/CS-031542.htm

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http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/x25m/sb/CS-031542.htm > http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/x25m/sb/CS-031542.htm

Did not help me (Intel X25-M G2 80GB), nor any other previous advices.

What else can I try?

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Did you try my post from the previous comment page:

1. Device Manager, expand out IDE ATA/ATAPI settings.

2. Identify the "nForce Serial ATA Controller" that is relevant to your SSD (I'm running on a Gen 1 32gb Intel - X25-e), flip through the Port tabs until you find your drive on each controller.

3. Uncheck "Enable command queuing"

4. Be prepared to reboot, mine as well do it now since your computer could randomly freeze if you're on this thread.

Maybe supply a bit more information about your system, what is the motherboard chipset?

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>Did you try my post from the previous comment page:

>...

>Maybe supply a bit more information about your system, what is the motherboard chipset?

My laptop is Sony Vaio VPCEB1S1E/BJ

Chipset is Intel® HM55 Express

Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI controller does not have these tab/settings "Port tabs" "Enable command queuing".

Hopefully the problem is not related to this, because I can not change this setting!