TRIM update hosed my Windows 7 install

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Just did the firmware update and it hosed my Windows 7 installation. The updater showed a successful firware update. Initially the computer booted just fine, but once I was within Windows it installed some drivers and asked for a reboot. That's when the trouble started. Now the drive won't boot Windows 7 anymore. I don't know if it's a Dell problem or Intel problem. The Dell BIOS claims a SMART error. I have a Dell XPS 8000.

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The question is will INTEL recompense all the users? It is more than a shame, having payed a fortune for something not properly working, and worse, supply a FIX which makes it even worse.

Embarising!!

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Just to clear this up, if using Windows 7 with MSAHCI driver, then you do not need the Toolbox to run Optimizer because the SSD G2 drive does it automatically from within the drive?

Message was edited by: ambizytl

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Correct. If using Windows 7 with the MSAHCI driver, then you do not need the Toolbox to run Optimizer because it's done natively in the OS.

Please refer to Table 1 (on page 5) of the whitepaper cssd_run refers to in his last post for verification or more information:

http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/434471_intel_ssd_optimizer_white_paper.pdf http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/434471_intel_ssd_optimizer_white_paper.pdf

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So the Optimizer acts like TRIM for those who can't have TRIM? And they run it daily because they don't have TRIM. The Optimizer is essentially a manual version of TRIM. Interesting, and confusing, 😉 I think Intel could have done a better job of explaining that in the User's Guide--not everyone reads the white paper.

Now I still want to know why Windows 7 did not disable Superfetch, prefetch, and ReadyBoost when my SSD got a 7.8 score in Performance Index.

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sing1gnis wrote:

Is everybody getting this error after updating the firmware with Windows 7 already installed? I have not installed Windows 7 yet and was wondering if I would run into the same problem with a clean install.

No. I installed the update yesterday on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system and 160GB G2. I've rebooted several times since then and haven't had a problem (knocking on wood). I'm running in AHCI mode with the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager (which doesn't pass on the TRIM commands, but I'm stuck with it).