Suddenly it hangs on the bios screen on restart. I have to power it off and then start it with the power button and it boots and works perfectly. It appears its not seeing the ssd only on restart. I looked at the system configuration window and there's only 1 command line. 20gb free space on C drive. I think Windows did an update one night and it had the problem.. next day. It wasn't the 2400 update as I installed that to see if it would fix it but no.
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I have all the latest msft drivers. It's set to ahci in the bios. Same as always has been. When I reboot the screen turns black and it just hangs for about 1 minute. Then the bios splash screen appears and it just hangs there for a minute untill it decides it wants to do an automatic repair.
If i cold boot it starts very fast it just wont restart properly any more. Maybe the pm951 is having some type of issue. Maybe time to upgrade it to a 1gb newer m.2 ssd -
Hey, Even on 15 r2 PM951 seems slower than usual, takes a minute or two than usual! Dunno what is the issue. I have written only 34TB and spare capacity is 95% after 4 yrs.
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I ordered a new 2GB SSD so I will put a new SSD in as boot drive to see if problem goes away
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The PM951 seems to be the issue. Except now I have a new problem where the second m.2 disappeared after a reboot. I have to remove the C drive and install a second m.2 so its recognize in the bios. Then reinstall C and it will show both drives until the next restart when the second m.2 again dissapeared. I am thinking the faulty pm951 has damaged the controller or its jot playing nice with the other m.2
One is Intel and other is Adata Xpg.
Thinking I should sell the Alienware. -
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well the issue is following the PM951 so its not the connector. I am 99% sure the ssd is dyeing
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17 R3 256gb Samsung m.2 reboot problems
Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by SMOKE_SKULL, Oct 3, 2020.