- Jun 7, 2014
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This is an odd situation that crosses topics (storage, motherboards, general strangeness) and I'd appreciate some ideas.
Yesterday I fitted a new SSD (primary drive) to my desktop - it's a Samsung 860 EVO. I swapped out the old SSD and used the same SATA and drive power cable.
Initially things worked well but the machine began freezing. The first time this happened the mouse still worked and keyboard capslock etc. lights could be activated. Subsequent freezes were more dramatic.
During this time I tried using different SATA cables, swapping SATA points, etc. Nothing really helped.
This morning I had a freeze that developed into a black screen. At this point the fan became quieter, as though it were shifting power phases. Shortly after the machine became near silent.
I read that sometimes it's worth setting the SSD to run in AHCI mode, so I rebooted and tried again. This time the same thing happened but I got a spinny wheel for a few seconds first, before the whole thing died.
Now the machine will not boot at all. I can't see or hear any signs of it doing a POST. Unfortunately the mobo (Asrock 990fx Extreme 3) does not have an inbuilt speaker - an external one is coming from Amazon - so I can't tell if the machine can do e.g. diagnostic beeps when the memory dimms are removed.
Removing the CMOS battery and leaving untethered from power does not help.
What is going on here? Could a bad SSD cause a motherboard failure? Did I possibly damage the mobo whilst manipulating the drives? The machine was unplugged and I felt no static shocks.
Finally - what could have been going wrong with my SSD? It was like the connection or the power to it was suddenly failing. There wasn't a gradual degradation, it was sudden and dramatic, with all operations pretty much ceasing.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Yesterday I fitted a new SSD (primary drive) to my desktop - it's a Samsung 860 EVO. I swapped out the old SSD and used the same SATA and drive power cable.
Initially things worked well but the machine began freezing. The first time this happened the mouse still worked and keyboard capslock etc. lights could be activated. Subsequent freezes were more dramatic.
During this time I tried using different SATA cables, swapping SATA points, etc. Nothing really helped.
This morning I had a freeze that developed into a black screen. At this point the fan became quieter, as though it were shifting power phases. Shortly after the machine became near silent.
I read that sometimes it's worth setting the SSD to run in AHCI mode, so I rebooted and tried again. This time the same thing happened but I got a spinny wheel for a few seconds first, before the whole thing died.
Now the machine will not boot at all. I can't see or hear any signs of it doing a POST. Unfortunately the mobo (Asrock 990fx Extreme 3) does not have an inbuilt speaker - an external one is coming from Amazon - so I can't tell if the machine can do e.g. diagnostic beeps when the memory dimms are removed.
Removing the CMOS battery and leaving untethered from power does not help.
What is going on here? Could a bad SSD cause a motherboard failure? Did I possibly damage the mobo whilst manipulating the drives? The machine was unplugged and I felt no static shocks.
Finally - what could have been going wrong with my SSD? It was like the connection or the power to it was suddenly failing. There wasn't a gradual degradation, it was sudden and dramatic, with all operations pretty much ceasing.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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