SSD problems

[Cyber023]

Hi, Everyone

 

I have build a frankenstein laptop in a briefcase. I use it as latop when I go to friends and as a "debugging" machine when repairing computers at people their houses. But to the point when I originaly build it ran of Intel HD4000 graphics and a classic hard disk 1 tb Samsung Spinpoint, I replaced it with an SSD (the samsung 840 evo 120gb) installed windows and it worked nice. So I wanted to upgrade the graphics so I put in a GTX650 with a PCI 1x -> 16x extender and one 6 pin power. When installing drivers for the GPU the pc crashed and the SSD seemed "broken" did not get recognized in bios or on a other pc. After about two days tried it again and it worked but after 15 min BSOD and same problem today it worked again so i am really lost with whats the problem.

Specs:

 

Intel I5 3470

Asus P8H77-v LE

Corsair CX500 Watt

8GB 1333 MHz RAM

Screen : 1280x1024 (Yeah i know right)

Build in Speakers

 

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Cyber023

[ZetZet]

How does GPU get some air? and why have powerful gpu at all?  :lol:

[Cyber023]

Did al the the basic things like CMOS reset, bios update ect.

[Cyber023]

How does GPU get some air? and why have powerful gpu at all?  :lol:

It can pull air from sides, and had it laying around so why not use it

[ForsakenLive]

Don't you loose performance by going only 1x instead of using a x16 to x16 PCIe extender?

[Cyber023]

Don't you loose performance by going only 1x instead of using a x16 to x16 PCIe extender?

Yeah I orded the wrong one :l

[Toxic Tom]

That is the most ghetto laptop I've ever seen!

[Cyber023]

That is the most ghetto laptop I've ever seen!

Yes thats right but its handy for debugging because you can just connect things right to mobo/psu

[Cyber023]

Somebody ???

[Toxic Tom]

Yes thats right but its handy for debugging because you can just connect things right to mobo/psu

 

It's pretty beastly

[didl10]

Nice briefcase  

It seems like the SSD is dead, but just to make sure...

Did you write down the error message from the Blue screen? if it flashes too quickly, try to see if you can get it up and running for a few minutes and then use this tool ( get a read on the blue screen, and from there just google. Alternativly you can connect the SSD to another computer and use the tool.

but as I said, It does seem like a broken SSD, so I would try connecting it to another computer and run an error scan from HD TUNE (http://www.hdtune.com/ - use the FREE version), and use heavyload (http://www.jam-software.com/heavyload/) to write temp files to it. You say the SSD disconnects after a few minutes, so try to see if heavyload and HD TUNE makes the BSOD appear faster - if they do it's a broken SSD controller.

 

I hope you find the faulty component, there is nothing worse than an unresolved error!