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animal66

animal66

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So I got a 960gb ssd (sandisk ultra 2) recently intending to use it as my main drive for os and games. I installed it this morning and installed a legit version of win 7 pro 64bit. The problem I have is that the computer shut down several times at varying frequencies after I installed it. I checked the fans in my machine to make sure I hadn't knocked any loose, all is good. Any ideas what it could be? I reinstalled my previous drive and all is working fine. I had a quick look at the ssd when connected via usb and all seems fine.

Any ideas peeps?
 
If everything checks out OK, it's probably a bad drive from the get-go. Try installing a fresh OS again and see if the issue remains. If it still does, I would go as far as installing a different OS just to make sure it's the drive and not the Win7 installer you're using.
 
How about the AHCI driver? (Because it should be in AHCI for performance reasons)

Do you have an AMD board? I had some initial trouble with drivers when I first installed my ssd. I also have a sandisk.

Do not use the default MS AHCI driver, it sucks. My entire machine would stutter. I think I tried 2-3 drivers with the newest one working best. I have no idea why I didn't start with it.
 
Kreubs said:
How about the AHCI driver? (Because it should be in AHCI for performance reasons)

Do you have an AMD board?
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Yes I do. It's a gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p. gonna try stuff tomorrow as it's very late here.
 
animal66 said:
Yes I do. It's a gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p. gonna try stuff tomorrow as it's very late here.
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Be warned, though (I'm sure you know, but here's a time saver just in case XD), if the controller is set to IDE and you change to AHCI, Windows will perpetually BSOD.
You can:
  • Set the controller to AHCI, boot straight to safe mode, and then do a normal reboot back to Windows
  • Uninstall the storage controller driver, set the controller to AHCI, and boot back to Windows
  • Change the controller mode registry entry to AHCI then set the controller
Each of these will almost assuredly give you the MS :poop: driver.
 
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