06Aug OCZ 512GB windows 7 issues
The OCZ Agility 4 512 GB drive came in last week and I finally had a chance to try a quick install of windows 7 last night. Only 15 min to run through the first reboot of the install process and I get a “bootMGR is missing”. It’s a little strange on a fresh drive, but it happens sometimes. So I ran RebuildBCD and got the drive working, then finished installing windows 7. It only took 5 minutes before the first blue screen of death hit and the stability only got worse from there.
A quick install turned into a whole night of work detaching hard drives, replacing ram, running memory checks and still no luck. I put everything back together, dropped the old SSD back in and everything works fine. What are the chances I received a bad SSD drive?
I’m going to continue running system checks to see if I can find anything obvious, but both sets of ram passed the Memtest86 check and the system is stable with the original drive. I don’t think I’ve ever had this much trouble getting an OS installed. If I ever get the dang thing working, i’ll post some test results.
August 6th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I feel your pain, I have stayed up late many times with issues like that.
On a related note are you going to upgrade to Windows 8 or hold off til the next version comes out like I am?
August 6th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
I might run dual boot windows 8/7 just to play around with it, but it usually takes awhile after a release before support of drivers and software get up to speed. I’m finally migrating the last of my Vista machines over to windows 7 so it’ll probably be awhile before I feel the need to do any real work in 8. However it is nice to see that windows 8 is priced a much more reasonably then windows 7 ultimate.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Get a MAC.
August 6th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
I ran into the “BootMGR is missing” error when I installed an Agility4 240GB drive in my Sager 5135 Laptop.
I used Arconis to clone my windows 7 install. To this day I just suffer with having to CRTL-ALT-DELETE (warm boot) Runs fine after that. Although I can’t hibernate or sleep. Other than that it works great :/ But really I installed my HDD in the ODDbay and LR3 and Premier cs5 work amazing, I’ve noticed a difference when editing in the timeline. I scratch to the HDD in the ODDbay.
There is a firmware update process, I looked into this extensively to no avail, I wasn’t ready to risk doing a clean install on the SSD, I really want to save my windows install. good luck.
August 6th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
If I come up with a good solution, I’ll put together a post on it.
August 6th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Hey Deejay,
I just read a post on Lifehacker about SSDs and I heard some commenters complaining they had issues with OCZ because of bios/motherboard incompatibility -> http://lifehacker.com/5932009/?comment=51598495
Try updating the driver of those, just to be on the safe side.
The article itself is a good read to…
August 6th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
I’ll check it out, thanks for the heads up!
August 7th, 2012 at 5:48 am
and this is why i love Macs
August 7th, 2012 at 8:15 am
You win this round Mac, but I’ll be back – pc
August 7th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
too bad Macbook pros have problems with the Crucial M4 series.
August 7th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I had similar issues with my Samsung 830’s in my system.
Make sure you have AHCI setup in the BIOS before you install the OS.
The system was seriously unstable until I did this. It was rebooting every few hours, mostly when unattended. Once I gave in and reinstalled with AHCI ON all is fine. Not had any troubles in 3 months now. Well worth a check.
August 7th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
I tried both AHCI and raid neither provided a stable install. I might have to update my Bios.
August 7th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Deejay,
During the install, I’ve always had problems with Win7 if you have any other drives connected but the install drive. For whatever reason, the MBR/GPT bootldr will be installed on a secondary drive, where the OS will be installed on the selected drive. I know, it sounds messed up… but try installing Win7 with only the SSD and the USB stick connected.
August 8th, 2012 at 10:43 am
I’ll give that a try maybe I left a one of my us plugged in during the install. Thanks for the info Sean!