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Intel X25-M G1 80GB SSD hangs/freezes in Windows 7
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09-12-2009 06:15 PM
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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11-22-2009 05:26 AM
My system seems to freeze mostly when I'm browsing or watching a streamed movie on Firefox. Also when I'm using my musicmaking program and a lot of sounds are going on the same time...
I would really like t o have some response from intel about this problem.. Seems like they don't care at all...
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11-27-2009 09:48 PM
I have this problem on a Win 7 32 bit install with a g2 drive. Any update or comment from intel?
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12-02-2009 01:10 PM
Hmm, I had a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard workstation on new hardware running for about a week without any issues until I cloned the existing 500GB sata drive over to the new 160GB S25-M G2 160GB Intel SSD. Since doing that this morning I have had nothing but trouble with random freezes/lockups (mouse starts to stutter and a few seconds later it totally locks up). I even updated to the newest 02HD which recently came out and that has not helped. Any ideas anyone?
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12-03-2009 03:06 AM
Sorry man got no idea. I updated my motherboard BIOS and now the freezes have nearly dissapeared. But they are still there but the not occur so often. I'm not sure if I will send my SSD back because I dont know if this is a problem with the SSDs or something other in the PC.
Intel should help us with this
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12-03-2009 06:50 AM
In my case it might not be the SSD. I also put in two nvidia Geforce GT 220 PCI-E video cards (I have 3 monitors) a few hours before the SSD, and since disabling the AERO interface I haven't had any lockups or crashes. Prior to the nvidia cards I had 2 ATI cards that worked flawlessly... so go figure, it must be the video cards... I'll report back here if it's not, but I think it's probably not the SSD after all...
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