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- Jul 12, 2002
As the title says, I've had some random disappearing of my SSD's.
I have 3 in my rig and I'm sure it has happened to all 3, including my OS, which is probably why I've been BSOD'ing...PC would somewhat stop responding and I get a critical termination error f4 with no driver at fault according to bluescreen viewer. I don't have the file anymore so I can't post the info.
It's completely random and infrequent and it started recently for no reason. I originally suspected my old OCZ was giving up after years of service so I disconnected it but then it happened to my Samsung Evo's also...
Here's what I've tried so far...
1) clean installs
2) using only motherboard qualified drivers as well as up to date motherboard drivers from intel (separate installs)
3) new SATA cables
4) switching SATA ports on the mobo, although I'm not done this part of the test yet. I'm now using port 1 for my bluray drive, 2,3,4,5 for my SSD's and one spinner.
I've been doing some reading and apparently it's a very common symptom and something with bios switching SATA port 0 and 1 etc...which is why I took my drives off the 0-1 ports.
Now I have no idea what to but I have some questions...
1) my mobo has 6 intel SATA ports numbered 0-5, do I need to plug my OS drive into port 0? I don't believe so but I wanted to check.
2) I recently bought a 980ti and it's huge with a backplate. The card pretty much covers and sits almost flush with the SATA ports. I'm honestly not sure if it's maybe touching the SATA ports...hard to tell....Could the GPU be causing some kind of electrical short on the SATA ports? My SATA cables have the metal clips but after today's SSD disappearing on me I put the cables with clips in behind and I use the all plastic SATA cables in front (which would be closest to the gpu HS)
I didn't change any BIOS settings and so I'm left with thinking the SATA ports might be giving up on my mobo but then why would it work in the first place?
I can do anything I want, play games etc...
Any help or additional insight would be appreciated
My rig is in my sig
Thanks.
I have 3 in my rig and I'm sure it has happened to all 3, including my OS, which is probably why I've been BSOD'ing...PC would somewhat stop responding and I get a critical termination error f4 with no driver at fault according to bluescreen viewer. I don't have the file anymore so I can't post the info.
It's completely random and infrequent and it started recently for no reason. I originally suspected my old OCZ was giving up after years of service so I disconnected it but then it happened to my Samsung Evo's also...
Here's what I've tried so far...
1) clean installs
2) using only motherboard qualified drivers as well as up to date motherboard drivers from intel (separate installs)
3) new SATA cables
4) switching SATA ports on the mobo, although I'm not done this part of the test yet. I'm now using port 1 for my bluray drive, 2,3,4,5 for my SSD's and one spinner.
I've been doing some reading and apparently it's a very common symptom and something with bios switching SATA port 0 and 1 etc...which is why I took my drives off the 0-1 ports.
Now I have no idea what to but I have some questions...
1) my mobo has 6 intel SATA ports numbered 0-5, do I need to plug my OS drive into port 0? I don't believe so but I wanted to check.
2) I recently bought a 980ti and it's huge with a backplate. The card pretty much covers and sits almost flush with the SATA ports. I'm honestly not sure if it's maybe touching the SATA ports...hard to tell....Could the GPU be causing some kind of electrical short on the SATA ports? My SATA cables have the metal clips but after today's SSD disappearing on me I put the cables with clips in behind and I use the all plastic SATA cables in front (which would be closest to the gpu HS)
I didn't change any BIOS settings and so I'm left with thinking the SATA ports might be giving up on my mobo but then why would it work in the first place?
I can do anything I want, play games etc...
Any help or additional insight would be appreciated
My rig is in my sig
Thanks.