SSD Trouble

[Dababa]

Hey guys. I tried turning on my computer this morning and after the BIOS image it went to a black screen with a blinking light. I then went into BIOS and it isn't recognizing my SSD. I've tried unplugging and replugging in the power and the SATA cable but it still isn't recognizing it. Does this mean my SSD is dead? I build the computer ~3 years ago.

UPDATE: I fixed the issue for now. After reading around I swapped the SATA cables of the SSD and the HDD and it booted fine now, recognizing both of them. Although I am not sure why swapping made both of them work...

[Deleted]

Which SSD do you have?

[Dababa]

It's a Crucial M4 128GB SSD

[Deleted]

try updating the firmware of the SSD

It could be part of the 2000 hour bug, but then your pc should boot up fine but crash after 1 hour.

[Dababa]

Will do. Thank you.

[GaryWinthorpe]

Could be a temporary issue that may turn into a bigger one. I would do a regular backup of your data just incase they do fail completely.

[DeltrusDisc]

try updating the firmware of the SSD

It could be part of the 2000 hour bug, but then your pc should boot up fine but crash after 1 hour.

Pretty sure it was closer to a 5000 hour bug, but semantics. Good link! Making me look up my own SSDs now. :P

[Denpepe]

As good as crucial SSD's are supposed to be, I had one mx100 256 GB that kept disappearing from my system, since it was still under warranty I got my money back from the store (they could not replace it anymore due to not carrying them anymore), got a Samsung 850 evo in stead.

Anyways even though you fixed it, I would make sure to backup important stuff and keep an eye on it, even the best of things die eventually.

[Puupi]

I've had similar issues with my hard drives and switching the cords and sockets to plug them into fixed it. It might be that the issue is more with the motherboard rather than the hard drives....