Show Us Your WEI [4]

OK, Good. You can call me anything, just don't call me late for dinner.

A quick question Bob, I know you said that when you installed Windows you only had the SSD connected. But since then have you connected a regular HDD up? I am wandering if for whatever reason WEI is reading and scoring for the regular HDD instead of the SSD? As 5.9 score is always what 99% of regular HDD's score.

Edit: A quick way to test it (assuming you do have a HDD connected) would be to disconnect it, and re-run WEI.

Paul.

paulpicks21 said:

A quick question Bob, I know you said that when you installed Windows you only had the SSD connected. But since then have you connected a regular HDD up? I am wandering if for whatever reason WEI is reading and scoring for the regular HDD instead of the SSD? As 5.9 score is always what 99% of regular HDD's score.

Edit: A quick way to test it (assuming you do have a HDD connected) would be to disconnect it, and re-run WEI.

Paul.

Ah, way ahead of you on this one. Already tried it and no difference.

After the clean install I did connect the HDD. I have it set to turn off 5 min. after idle I believe it's called.
I was reading last night on the OCZ forums and this seems to be a common problem.
I haven't read far enough into the site to determine if in fact there is somewhat of a fix. I did notice a lot of problems occurred after a firmware update though.

Vertex3 and Vertex 3.20

Maybe this particular drive was a problem child since it was born. I'm kinda afraid it might poop out at the wrong time, I don't know.

So, at this point I'm still open to suggestions.

Did you see this post? There are links to tell you which tests to run, one of which you already have, and links for what the speeds should be.

When you first built the PC, did you install all the motherboard drivers?

I was looking on the Asus support site for your motherboard and there are drivers available for Sata on there, you will need to navigate to them yourself, but there is one for AMD AHCI and one for the Asmedia sata controller. It might be worth downloading and installing them just in case.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download M5A99X EVO R2.0

And I assume you have the latest firmware for the SSD.

essenbe said:

And I assume you have the latest firmware for the SSD.

No, I do not. As I said above there have been a lot of problems after people update the firmware, including
making a brick out of it.

paulpicks21 said:

When you first built the PC, did you install all the motherboard drivers?

I was looking on the Asus support site for your motherboard and there are drivers available for Sata on there, you will need to navigate to them yourself, but there is one for AMD AHCI and one for the Asmedia sata controller. It might be worth downloading and installing them just in case.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download M5A99X EVO R2.0

Yes, I did install the MB drivers but can't remember if there was a update at the time. If there was I'm sure I put it in.
How do I find out what driver versions I have now ?
Which one do I download from the site, just the newest one for AHCI ?
I have Asmedia sata controller installed. This is the info I found for it.

Yeah I would just download the latest AHCI drivers.

It properly won't make any difference but it's worth a shot. I am pretty much out of Idea's.

I do know that an SSD should not score 5.9 though and it's annoying me why yours is.

Found more info.