Intel SSD 530 startup problems - Bug in SSD?

[ajoha7]

I just bought an Intel SSD 530 240GB to replace my Intel SSD510 for my HP Elitebook 8460p.

When i cold-start my computer everything is fine, but when I restart my computer from within a freshly installed windows-7, the drive is not found.

If i turn off the computer and start it again, the drive is found and boots up again as usual. So the drive fails after reset.

I have upgraded the firmware of the SSD to the latest version via the SSD toolbox but still no luck. also updated laptop bios to latest version.

I had no problems in the past with the Intel SSD 510 edition.

Any ideas on what to do?

Clarification:

So, when I insert my Intel 510 SSD and start windows and restart windows it works without problem. But with the Intel 530 it wails when I do restart, the BIOS does not find it after a normal reset. So that must conclude that the Intel SSD 530 has some bug? or is sensitive to some timing issue?

Should I return it? or just assume its incompatible with my laptop?

Message was edited by: andy johansson (added some clarification at the end)

[cdodg]

My issue must be different, the new firmware did not resolve my issue. My shuttle PC will wont detect these drives, I have two and neither of them work. It seems that if i have a different brand of drive plugged in I get better results. Not sure if this is Shuttles issue or Intel's but I know that the Samsung drives work so I am returning 5 of these and just ordered the Samsungs.

[MHajd1]

I am happy to report that the new firmware fixed the problem on HP 2570p with F.44 BIOS. Warm restart is now working perfectly.

Go Intel !

[GG_1]

Hi,

Recently bought 240GB Intel 530 SSD for my Late 2011 Macbook 13. That was a complete failure -

2-3 minutes long boot, constant 5-10 second freezes / beachballing, disk missing on reboot.

Luckily I found this thread, and have been watching it for a while.

After applying DC32 boot now takes 20 second and seems it fixed reboot issue, too. Still i experience minor 1-2 second freezes.

Anyway, thank you guys for all of your help! Keep up good work.

I will post later after several days of testing.

[NFeng2]

Issue resolved on HP elitebook 8470p.

Thank you!!

Just a bit advice here, for this kind of issues in the future, maybe you can inform the customer support team and keep them updated on the progress of the engineering team? I have contacted the customer support and they suggested changing boot order, resetting bios, reinstalling OS, contacting HP (HP suggested me to do a disk check which would take hours, reinstalling OS and replace the SSD for a new one). After all this, my issue was still not solved and a lot of trouble was caused until I find this thread, then I told both customer support from intel and HP that I have identified the issue and I will just wait for the firmware update.

[ATish]

Dear sirs,

The problem is with SSD solved after installing new software and firmware provided by you. Reboot process is working.

Thank you.

HP ProBook 4540s

Best regards,

Andriy