Win 7 SSD System freezes during ATIH 2010 image then reboots itself
I don't know if this is a harware issue with my SSD, disk controller (motherboard), power supply or something else, but depending on what I'm doing, the computer will operate for a few minutes then freeze and eventually reboot itself. When it reboots, I get the "Bootmgr is Missing" message until I cycle power a couple of times. I've tried booting from the Windows 7 repair disk and typing "bootrec /fixboot", but the problem eventually returns.
I can't get a full image update from Acronis because it hangs in the middle of the image, even if I say to ignore bad sectors. If I run the HDTune diagnostic on the SSD, it seems to always stop after about 3 minutes and always in the same spot, at 15,432MB. Is this a problem with the SSD or the disk controller?
Confguration:
O/S: OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840 Processor, 3200 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date: Award Software International, Inc. F13, 8/31/2010
SSD: Microcenter SSD G2 series 64GB ATA Device
HDD: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 ATA Device (1TB)
RAM: 8GB
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This is an update on the resolution of my SSD freezing issue. Initially, I wasn’t sure whether it was SSD, controller, motherboard, RAM, or power supply, but at this point I’m pretty sure it was a SSD malfunction. I am reluctant to say definitively because I just could not find the right tool to diagnose the SSD.
The smoking gun was that chkdsk, HDTune, and Acronis would all fail at the same spot when reading the drive. Unfortunately, I could not find a non-destructive repair tool and my last-good image of the SSD was about 6 days old, and could not make a current image, but I had good current images of the remainder of the system.
So I went down to Microcenter and bought a new OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD to replace the problematic Microcenter rebranded A-DATA 64GB SSD, and restored my 6-day-old image to it. Boots fine, except for some non-existent registry entries from recently-installed programs and windows updates which are not reflected on the HDD.
If anyone happens to know of a good SSD diagnostic utility for non-destructive repairs, please let me know. I've tried HD Tune, chkdsk, SSDlife, and SSD Tweak, but could not find anything that could successfully repair my malfunctioning SSD, at least while it was the "hot" Windows 7 host.
Pat L, thanks for your help in this analysis.
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