[Winkme]

Hey,

So I've been browsing this site for about 2 months now without inputing anything. Well, Now , I have an issue.

I just purchased the 32 gb non t style runcore for my dell mini 9. Loaded up Window7 ultimate, everything went awesome, UNTIL I CLOSED THE LID.

Once I closed the screen/lid then tried to open it back up again. It took me to my login password. I was able to type that in, but after hitting enter, It would get stuck on the frozen screen.

Since I had no other viable option at the time, I restarted my Mini.

Once restarted, My mini would not load windows, saying "operating system not found". I reboot again and go into BIOS. Its not showing a drive at all.

At that time I turned off usb legacy support.

After removing the battery, holding down power, and restarting, it still didnt show the drive. I got frustrated and walked away.

After about a 10 minutes, I come back and try it again, AND IT WORKS OUT OF THE BLUE. AND ITS FINE... UNTIL I CLOSE THE LID AGAIN!

Can someone tell me whats going on here?

PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS SO I CAN SHUT MY COMPUTER WORRY FREE!

[rrfranczak3]

what do you have set for power options?,
also what do you have set for "what to do when I close the lid of my computer"?
if you go down to the start balloon and next to shut down, what options do you have:,
does it work if you manually shut it down, either hibernate or shutdown
does it start up again?
Is you copy of windows 7 legitimate?


PS. Welcome to the forum...

[Winkme]

Originally Posted by rrfranczak3

what do you have set for power options?,
also what do you have set for "what to do when I close the lid of my computer"?
if you go down to the start balloon and next to shut down, what options do you have:,
does it work if you manually shut it down, either hibernate or shutdown
does it start up again?
Is you copy of windows 7 legitimate?


PS. Welcome to the forum...

Thanks for the welcome!

One thing I haven't tried until Just now is just plain old shutting it down. It seems that just shutting it down then trying to reboot right afterwards does the same thing! It currently states I have no HDD... in a couple minutes though, it will be back... SO FRUSTRATING!

I have the computer on hibernate (or standby, whats the difference? I close it, when it opens it takes me to login screen, then idk after that)

It has been on the "balanced" power plan. having it plugged in or on battery makes no difference

... After playing with it and waiting for the ssd to cooperate again it looks like its defaulted to sleep. IS that bad? Does hibernate take any additional space? Whats the best for it?

... Hibernation does the same thing.. and its annoying.







I used a legit DVD of Windows 7... It passes genuine advantage and is completely up to date. Thats what you mean by legit, Right? :P (Its just an OEM Key I stumbled upon, thats all... no special software or anything )

Other information: BIOS A06 {NOW}, I was on A04 when this originally started happening. I flashed it to a06 in hopes of fixing it... no luck
2 gb of ram (crucial something or other)


This is a near clean install of windows 7. No anti-virus, no running backround programs,etc. This happens regardless if something is open or not!

[kuoh]

Since it's not detected in BIOS, I'm leaning towards a hardware issue with the drive or possibly the interface. Neither the verision of OS or it's legitimacy has anything to do with the ability of the BIOS to detect the SSD. You might try sticking the original HD back in and see if the problem persists.

As for hibernation, it does take up the same amount of space on disk as the amount of RAM you have. However, SSDs have limited write cycles, so you'll want to set the hibernation time to a reasonable interval, like several hours, after going into standby to prevent unnecessary writes. Otherwise, each time you close your lid, you're diminishing the usable life of the drive.

KuoH

Originally Posted by Winkme

One thing I haven't tried until Just now is just plain old shutting it down. It seems that just shutting it down then trying to reboot right afterwards does the same thing!
...
... After playing with it and waiting for the ssd to cooperate again it looks like its defaulted to sleep. IS that bad? Does hibernate take any additional space? Whats the best for it?

[Winkme]

Would speedstep be a problem? I dont know what it doe, but I do remember enabling it (while I had my 8 gb drive in!, no problems there)
What the does it do?

Update once The beast reawakens....

[kuoh]

Speedstep is a CPU throttling feature to lower power consumption when the PC is idle. It shouldn't affect HD detection at startup unless there's some really weird BIOS issue.

KuoH

Originally Posted by Winkme

Would speedstep be a problem?