Hi there,
I am not a guru, I am just an enthusiast with two machines.
I had the same issue with the same SSD. In short, from my assessment of the issue is with the SSD and I don't have a fix yet.
Justification for my assessment is below and would welcome any criticism or feedback:
After much frustration I broke down the machine in question and tested each component by swapping items in and out with my other computer. The machines are old. One is an x58 RPOG + I7 950 (the problem child) and the other is a Gigabyte UD5 + AMD phenom black.
1. The problem would be at its worst during boot or going into the BIOS where the screen would cut out after about 30 seconds.
2. Initially I had some success swapping out the HDMI cable but as I investigated further with CMOS clears, firmware updates etc, it became evident it was not the cable.
3. It got so bad, that not only did the screen black out, but my USB connectors stopped as well. This meant no Windows re-install and no screen to see what was going on. At this stage I thought my board was fried and was singing praises for Gigabyte.
4. After breaking down the machine with my board just sitting on two pieces of wood and everything possible disconnected, my USB's started working. I still couldn't reload windows because the screen would still cut out after 30 seconds.
5. I started testing the memory. The old 1 stick, 2 sticks, 3 sticks swapping them around, testing each - even using memory from the other machine. Problem still persisted. Therefore it wasn't a memory issue.
6. I tested the graphics card from the RPOG board in the working Gigabyte board - and vice versa and concluded it wasn't the memory cards.
7. Coming into week two and countless reboots, I had some luck.
I partitioned a traditional hard drive (non SSD) on the working Gigabyte machine and loaded windows 10 onto the new partition. Put the hard drive into the RPOG machine and voila! It worked. No flickering, no black outs. It was a pop the champagne moment as I thought I was going to have upgrade my machine (which I would love to do) and fork out $$$ (which I can't do!).
8. With my RPOG machine working, apologies started flowing in my mind for ASUS boards. I then got to work on updating the mortherboard firmware. All good.
9. I then worked on formatting the SSD's and turning them back into boot drives. (The whole project / problem started when I was running out of space on my Samsung 250 gb evo SSD and I wanted to span this over a second old OCZ 110 gb SSD). I worked on Diskpartition, turned them both into dynamic disks and created 1 spanned volume. Being the novice that I am, I quickly learned that Windows 10 will not load onto a spanned volume. Go figure - how dumb am I? two weeks of trouble shooting and work for naught!! But I am oh so much wiser now
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9. So after the "Oh well" moment, I went back to turning the disks into simple volumes and re-creating a boot drive on the Samsung SSD. It was then that I discovered the screen black outs again. As I was loading windows onto the SSD from the a USB boot drive - the screen starting blacking out after working perfectly well on the traditional drive mentioned above. Hence my conclusions that something is not right with the SSD firmware.
The point is I can categorically conclude that it is not the HDMI cord, nor memory nor the GPU's nor the MB's nor the monitors. (BTW the monitors are the same for both machines (Samsung BTX 2450's).
I will continue to read the forums and see if the Samsung SSD is an issue experienced by others. Great disk btw but I am suspecting after seeing your post and what I have tested, there is probably a small bug in the firmware that needs ironing out and updating.
All the best
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