- Nov 2, 2005
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So I've had an Intell ssd, I think it's the x25-m series, 80gigs, for almost 5 years now. Worked well till yesterday, when I rebooted to install windows updates and all that annoying stuff. The bios now hangs when trying to recognize the ssd.
I've tried difference hard drives in different slots, different controllers too, and whenever the bios runs its checks to see what's connected, it hangs on the intel ssd until I reboot or remove the ssd. I've been googling around, but this doesn't seem to be a common problem.
Is it pretty much dead? It does make an effort to turn on, as in I can feel it doing something when it's powered on. Anyways I thought I'd see if anyone has seen this issue before. The intel support want me to run a firmware update, but I can't boot this or any other drive while it's connected, so I'd need to go get an external usb thingy, which would be a pain. I also doubt this is a firmware issue. Maybe there's a way to power cycle it and reset something?
I've tried difference hard drives in different slots, different controllers too, and whenever the bios runs its checks to see what's connected, it hangs on the intel ssd until I reboot or remove the ssd. I've been googling around, but this doesn't seem to be a common problem.
Is it pretty much dead? It does make an effort to turn on, as in I can feel it doing something when it's powered on. Anyways I thought I'd see if anyone has seen this issue before. The intel support want me to run a firmware update, but I can't boot this or any other drive while it's connected, so I'd need to go get an external usb thingy, which would be a pain. I also doubt this is a firmware issue. Maybe there's a way to power cycle it and reset something?