Hi everyone,
I just got a brand new Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD for Christmas and I believe it's the cause of some problems that have been occurring on my computer since I installed it. After installing the SSD, my computer freezes randomly every now and then. It's not terribly frequent; the computer is usable for reasonable lengths of time, but the amount of times it happens is still very annoying.
When the computer does freeze up, the mouse is still movable, but the desktop is entirely frozen. It's as if my mouse is freely moving around a picture of my desktop because I can't do anything other than move my mouse. Even CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing. The only way to get out of it is to shut the computer down with the power button and turn it back on. Not only is this irritating but I know that shutting down a running computer with the power button is bad for it. So far every time this has happened is when I'm in the middle of something. It happened when I was just using Chrome, and yesterday it happened when I was playing Skyrim. I'm saving what I'm typing right now as a .txt in case this happens again as I type this.
The only other thing that should be noted is that when I got the SSD, it did not come with a tray to securely screw it into the case, so what I did was take the plastic piece inside the box that the SSD was sitting in, and I used scissors to cut a piece off the side of the plastic, and then put that inside the computer to hold it in there. It actually fit surprisingly well, but three sides of the SSD are laying on plastic right now. Could the freezing be occuring because of heat building up under it? I also used some regular scotch tape to hold it into the plastic piece. Maybe that is causing some kind of electrical problem?
I just got a brand new Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD for Christmas and I believe it's the cause of some problems that have been occurring on my computer since I installed it. After installing the SSD, my computer freezes randomly every now and then. It's not terribly frequent; the computer is usable for reasonable lengths of time, but the amount of times it happens is still very annoying.
When the computer does freeze up, the mouse is still movable, but the desktop is entirely frozen. It's as if my mouse is freely moving around a picture of my desktop because I can't do anything other than move my mouse. Even CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing. The only way to get out of it is to shut the computer down with the power button and turn it back on. Not only is this irritating but I know that shutting down a running computer with the power button is bad for it. So far every time this has happened is when I'm in the middle of something. It happened when I was just using Chrome, and yesterday it happened when I was playing Skyrim. I'm saving what I'm typing right now as a .txt in case this happens again as I type this.
The only other thing that should be noted is that when I got the SSD, it did not come with a tray to securely screw it into the case, so what I did was take the plastic piece inside the box that the SSD was sitting in, and I used scissors to cut a piece off the side of the plastic, and then put that inside the computer to hold it in there. It actually fit surprisingly well, but three sides of the SSD are laying on plastic right now. Could the freezing be occuring because of heat building up under it? I also used some regular scotch tape to hold it into the plastic piece. Maybe that is causing some kind of electrical problem?
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Acer Aspire 5552
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom(tm) II N660 Dual-Core Processor
- Motherboard
- Acer JE51_DN
- Memory
- 4.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
- Sound Card
- (1) ATI High Definition Audio Device (2) Realtek High Defi
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 59 Hz
- Hard Drives
- 1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 59 Hz
- Other Info
- Is a Laptop
