PC crashes with SSD and HDD.

[Tsarkips]

Hello!
I recently bought a kingston hyperx 240gb SSD, I had a WD black 500gb HDD before. I now use the SSD as the boot drive and the HDD as a storage drive. I did not format the hdd, though. The problem is that at random points my PC will crash if both of the drives are connected. The pc freezes and I have to restart it, when it boots up the SSD doesn't work anymore (shows A2 error code a storage error) and it tries to boot into HDD. i have to unplug the pc for the ssd to come back to life.

I updated BIOS to latest, deleted windows folder on HDD. The SSD is connected to SATA 6gb/s, and HDD is connected to regular SATA port.

PC spec goes as follows:
i3 3220
MSI B75MA-P45
4gb RAM
CX500 PSU
HD7770
Kingston hyperx SSD
WD 500gb HDD

 

[cin19]

When you selected the ssd as the primary boot drive in the system BIOS, and you remember to make sure that ACHI mode is enabled.
You can try this: For win7
Restart the PC, during the boot, press "F8" enter the safe mode, in run command, type "regedit" to run it, then go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM|\currentControlset\services\iastorA, click the iastorA, in the right panel find the "Start" key, right click and enter the "modify", change the "Value data" ( under Hexadecimal) from "1" to "0", if it is "0", you just click "OK" to closed it. Try the same for the iastorF, iastorV, and msahci. After that reboot the PC, go to the storage section to change the ACHI mode.

For win8 I don't know you use the intel or microsoft ahci controller, if using the msahci, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM|\currentControlset\services\StorAHCI\msahci If you use the intel do the same for the win7.

Also you don't say you do a fresh clean install OS or use cloning software.

 

[Tsarkips]

When you selected the ssd as the primary boot drive in the system BIOS, and you remember to make sure that ACHI mode is enabled.
You can try this: For win7
Restart the PC, during the boot, press "F8" enter the safe mode, in run command, type "regedit" to run it, then go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM|\currentControlset\services\iastorA, click the iastorA, in the right panel find the "Start" key, right click and enter the "modify", change the "Value data" ( under Hexadecimal) from "1" to "0", if it is "0", you just click "OK" to closed it. Try the same for the iastorF, iastorV, and msahci. After that reboot the PC, go to the storage section to change the ACHI mode.

For win8 I don't know you use the intel or microsoft ahci controller, if using the msahci, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM|\currentControlset\services\StorAHCI\msahci If you use the intel do the same for the win7.

Also you don't say you do a fresh clean install OS or use cloning software.

I'll try that out, thanks! And it was a clean windows 7 64bit install.