- Aug 24, 2016
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I have 5 year old SSD (OCZ Vertex 4, 250GB). Used it as boot drive with Windows 7 and then Windows 10 without problems. Now I have upgraded all my hardware except the disk drives & keyboard-mouse. Then installed fresh copy of Win10. My problem is that My PC sometimes fails to boot. Not even POST. Just a blank screen, but power LED is lit up on the case and fans are spinning. Then I have to power down the PC either by switching off SMPS or by long-pressing power button on case. Next attempt after a few seconds and the PC boots normally without any trouble. It never fails to boot in consecutive attempts. And it fails to boot on first attempt only on maybe 30-40% of times. And when it does boot after a failure, it starts repair of system disk (SSD).
Why is this happening? Do I need to replace my 5 year old SSD boot drive? How to determine if it is a Windows problem or SSD failing? Please help. My configuration is given below.
MotherBoard : Asus Z270F Strix Gaming - LGA1151 - 7th Generation
CPU: Intel 7th Gen Intel Core i7 Desktop Processor i7-7700K (BX80677I77700K)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4 2400 Mhz (F4-2400C15S-16GVR) RAM
Graphics card: MSI GTX1080 Gaming X - Twin Frozr VI - PCI-E (8GB GDDR5) [added this month]
SSD boot drive: OCZ Vertex 4, 250GB [5 years old]
HDD for data: Seagate 4 TB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5" HDD
SMPS: Corsair CS650M
OS: Windows 10 Home
Why is this happening? Do I need to replace my 5 year old SSD boot drive? How to determine if it is a Windows problem or SSD failing? Please help. My configuration is given below.
MotherBoard : Asus Z270F Strix Gaming - LGA1151 - 7th Generation
CPU: Intel 7th Gen Intel Core i7 Desktop Processor i7-7700K (BX80677I77700K)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4 2400 Mhz (F4-2400C15S-16GVR) RAM
Graphics card: MSI GTX1080 Gaming X - Twin Frozr VI - PCI-E (8GB GDDR5) [added this month]
SSD boot drive: OCZ Vertex 4, 250GB [5 years old]
HDD for data: Seagate 4 TB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5" HDD
SMPS: Corsair CS650M
OS: Windows 10 Home
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