SSD Consistency Check

Anyway, I have a Gen2 Intel X25-M 160GB SSD, SSDSA2M160G2GC to be exact. Flashed with the latest firmware and loaded with a fresh install of Windows 7. Been working grand until now.

I have my OS, some various programs and utilities, and Steam installed onto the SSD, and I still have about 64GB left to spare.

Played Left 4 Dead for a few hours last night, surfed the web for about fifteen minutes, and then shut it down. Turned it on today and I get a notice that C: needs to be checked for consistency. The countdown moves to the "1" countdown, but then it gets stuck there. I restart, and it does it again. The third time, it stuck on "1" for a few seconds and then loaded onto my sign-in screen.

I immediately scheduled a disk check in the command prompt with the arguments /f and /r. Restarted. The consistency check screen comes up, counts down, and at "1" it exits to my sign-in screen. I restart from there, and the consistency screen again comes up, but gets stuck.

I try safe mode. Loading seems to get stuck on classpnp.sys. Tried normal boot again, and it loads after the countdown to 1. I disable write-caching, but the problem is still there.

I'm annoyed. I've been having this problem before, but it looks to me that the problem isn't the hard disks, but something in the system or drivers. Any ideas?



EDIT: I uninstalled the Intel Storage Matrix Controller and everything seems to be behaving now. I'll keep you updated.

 

You had the exact same problem on your old HDD didn't you, if I recall correctly?

 

Yup.

I ended up having to reinstall the Intel Matrix Controllers since without them I can't access my eSata drive.

 

Right. Keep us updated and see if it happens again.

I wonder if you had a new HDD you would be getting those chirping noises again...

 

Well, the newest HDD I have, the Hitachi 7k500, makes those noises, but no consistency checks for it thus far.

I'm using an older version of Intel Matrix to see if its more stable for me.

 

I moved up afew versions of IMSM, and the problem has returned. Looks like the newest versions of IMSM just don't play nice with my computer.

I wonder what's the matter with the damned thing.

 

did you try IRST 9.5.6?

i keep getting two volmgr error message in windows event system log file each time when bootup, since installed and uninstalled a software days ago.

 

I reinstalled the newest Intel Matrix Drivers, (1.0.8.1023) and I'm back to having no problems. I'll see if anything happens during normal usage.

Also I'm not familiar with IRST, but I'll try it out.

 

Hmm. So I installed the IRST drivers and two days later I got treated to another infinite C: consistency check loop.

I was going to mess with the drivers, so I went to safe mode in and it hung up on classpnp.sys. I went to make some food, and when I come back it's at the regular windows bootup sign-in screen. Hasn't done a consistency check since.

I'm still puzzled as to what the hell this thing is up to.

 

Ya your problem is weird... looks like u'll have to play it by ear.

 

So now it's my regular storage drive (Hitachi 7K500, to be exact) that does consistency checks now. Previous bootups hard worked perfectly fine.

Before the consistency checks, I have copied several gigabytes of files back and forth between my internal 7K500 and my external enclosure, played Left 4 Dead 2 for a grand total of about two and a half hours, and had my e-peen shriveled by Element via Steam chat for another hour and a half, I think. So it's one of those things that is making my computer go nuts on my HDD.

At least I know how to fix it now. I just boot into safemode and wait five minutes of so. It'll load the drivers, get stuck on Classpnp.sys, and then reboot into normal mode without any input from me. It's fine from then on.