Kingston HyperX 3K SSD Windows Freeze

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Hello everybody, I bought this SSD recently and did a clean installation of windows 8.1 ,nothing wrong at first, but the problem starts about 20 min in. Leaving my PC idle for around that period of time results in a complete freeze of all the desktop, mouse and keyboard seem responsive but all the windows I had open cease operation and I have to forcefully restart the system (No task manager or anything saves it at this point).

SSD is connected to a SATA 3.0 Port via AHCI with a Marvell 88SE9172 controller on a motherboard gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud7.

I been looking for answers prior to post in here and a common topic seems to be to disable LPM with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\portx" but im only able to find "iaStorAv" and "iaStorV" around that address in the registry no signs of iaStor.

I just want to make sure before I do any changes and any extra information would be appreciated a lot. Thanks everybody beforehand!

 

[Dereck47]

SSDs need to be connected to native SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports for best performance.

Connect the SSD to an AMD SATA port (SATA3_0) instead of a Marvell SATA port and see if that helps.

Also, make sure your motherboard's BIOS is on it's latest version and your SSD's firmware is also up to date.

 

[Xfsec]

SSDs need to be connected to native SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports for best performance.

Connect the SSD to an AMD SATA port (SATA3_0) instead of a Marvell SATA port and see if that helps.

Also, make sure your motherboard's BIOS is on it's latest version and your SSD's firmware is also up to date.

Motherboard BIOS is updated, will check SSD firmware and try the AMD SATA port, although I have HDD RAID0 there. And Just a question what exactly is a native SATA 3 port?

 

[Dereck47]

If you have an AMD CPU/motherboard then the AMD SATA ports are the native ports.
If you have an Intel CPU/motherboard then the Intel SATA ports are the native ports.

You won't get maximum advertised Read/Write speeds from current generation SSDs using 3rd party SATA controllers such as Marvell or ASMedia.

 

[Xfsec]

If you have an AMD CPU/motherboard then the AMD SATA ports are the native ports.
If you have an Intel CPU/motherboard then the Intel SATA ports are the native ports.

You won't get maximum advertised Read/Write speeds from current generation SSDs using 3rd party SATA controllers such as Marvell or ASMedia.

I'm guessing the same applies If I were to move that RAID0 to the Marvell SATA port, My motherboard configuration only allows me to either turn all the native ports into AHCI or RAID so would have to change the array somewhere else, aka. the marvell ports, would run slower but wouldn't really mind. Is that correct or I'm wrong in something

 

[Dereck47]

I'm guessing the same applies If I were to move that RAID0 to the Marvell SATA port, My motherboard configuration only allows me to either turn all the native ports into AHCI or RAID so would have to change the array somewhere else, aka. the marvell ports, would run slower but wouldn't really mind. Is that correct or I'm wrong in something

You can't move a RAID array from one SATA controller to another. Windows won't recognize the array. Each controller has a separate BIOS that you use in order to create a RAID array.

To create a RAID array on the AMD controller you need to press <Ctrl> <F> during POST in order to enter the AMD RAID BIOS (See page 81 of your motherboard manual for additional info).
To create a RAID array on the Marvell controller you need to press <Ctrl> <M> during POST in order to enter the Marvell RAID BIOS (Page 86 of your motherboard manual).

So unfortunately, if you want to move your drives then you would have to start over by creating a new RAID-0 array (which would delete all of your data), and then do a fresh Windows install.

Also FYI, AHCI mode is a subset of RAID mode. So any HDD, SSD, or optical drive (CD, DVD, etc.) connected to a SATA port in RAID mode, but is not part of an actual RAID array, will automatically default to AHCI mode.

 

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I'm guessing the same applies If I were to move that RAID0 to the Marvell SATA port, My motherboard configuration only allows me to either turn all the native ports into AHCI or RAID so would have to change the array somewhere else, aka. the marvell ports, would run slower but wouldn't really mind. Is that correct or I'm wrong in something

You can't move a RAID array from one SATA controller to another. Windows won't recognize the array. Each controller has a separate BIOS that you use in order to create a RAID array.

To create a RAID array on the AMD controller you need to press <Ctrl> <F> during POST in order to enter the AMD RAID BIOS (See page 81 of your motherboard manual for additional info).
To create a RAID array on the Marvell controller you need to press <Ctrl> <M> during POST in order to enter the Marvell RAID BIOS (Page 86 of your motherboard manual).

So unfortunately, if you want to move your drives then you would have to start over by creating a new RAID-0 array (which would delete all of your data), and then do a fresh Windows install.

Also FYI, AHCI mode is a subset of RAID mode. So any HDD, SSD, or optical drive (CD, DVD, etc.) connected to a SATA port in RAID mode, but is not part of an actual RAID array, will automatically default to AHCI mode.

Huh I didn't know that last, Thanks for the info! Ill spend the rest of the day sorting this out and check how it goes, however I appreciate a lot your help into this

 

[Dereck47]

No problem

 

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Alright so I'm back with some goods and some bads.

First I check the SSD firmware and everything seems up to date. I plugged the SSD into the native SATA port and it ran ok. Did some speed tests with CrystalDiskMark and oddly I got about 50 MB/s less read speed compared to the Marvell port, not mattering a lot for now I continued to check about those freezing problems but I got interrupted and had to restart my computer but then something happen. Every time It tried to boot up ended with a BSOD with no error code whatsoever and after about 3 tries I gave up. Connected the SSD back to the Marvell port and luckily the Pc was able to boot without problems but yeah, I'm basically stuck again at the beginning