Well I should have my head examined, I had settled in with Ssd drives in both pcs I use the most and everything was running well. I am not quite sure where I read this but I think it was on the LinkedIn business owners forum about a marvelous tweak for Ssd drives called "tweak ssd". The hype about what it does really sounded good too.

 

After a week or so I started getting freezes on most browsers and the unit with Windows 7 was taking forever to boot up. Then even normal open windows such as Control Panel began to freeze. I ran checkdisk and it made no difference. I removed some things from startup to no avail. Needless to say I looked to restore the most recent Macrium image file after System restore did nothing and the closest I had was August 5. So I restored it and at first things seemed ok, but then the same things started happening. So I began to believe the issue could be the bargain PNY 240 Gb drive so I restored the image file onto my older Crucial 128 Gb drive and all is well after I caught everything up. I suppose the only way I will know now is to install another system on that PNY drive

 

http://www.totalidea.com/products/tweak-ssd/

I have never tweaked my SSD Drives. They perform great as they are.

I like the Intel SSD's.

If it ain't broke don't try to fix it.:)

Good read.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kingston-and-pny-caught-bait-and-switching-cheaper-components-after-good-reviews

Never tweaked mine it runs fine.

Good read.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kingston-and-pny-caught-bait-and-switching-cheaper-components-after-good-reviews

Definitely a good read, Dougie.

Good read Dougie, I have never had any use for Kingston or PNY, I should have "held my powder"! And I know better too. This Crucial drive I am now using is the first Ssd I bought and is running like a charm. The tweaking sure didn't help but I bet the drive sucks also as I have never had much good to say about PNY in the past anyway. The price ($89 for 240) bagged me and I know better.

What a day I have had. At 2am this morning my new rig died.It stopped like it was shot. Everything dead. Done all the usual checks including temp hooking up another PSU.

I took the rig to my computer shop and they rang me some time later that the Asrock Z97 extreme 4 had died. This is about 2-3 weeks old. They wanted to give me a new motherboard. I said I bought the parts on your recommendation, You fix the *&&^%^&&** thing. They did replace the Mobo and picked it up and now working great again.

They have seven shops and sold around 400 of these Mobo's and this is only the second that has failed and it had to be me.:angry:

As you know, Rich even quality hardware can fail. Just the luck of the draw.

Good read Dougie, I have never had any use for Kingston or PNY, I should have "held my powder"! And I know better too. This Crucial drive I am now using is the first Ssd I bought and is running like a charm. The tweaking sure didn't help but I bet the drive sucks also as I have never had much good to say about PNY in the past anyway. The price ($89 for 240) bagged me and I know better.

 

I don't have any hate for PNY or Kingston. I have used PNY GPU's in the past, and memory (not SSD's) and used Kingston memory many times - no issue.

I run one Kingston SSD and had no issues. Never used PNY products so can't comment.

I had a Crucial SSD and all the front plastic broke away. I took it back for warranty and they refused.

Said I was too aggresive changing the connectors. I said "Pig's Arse"

I am surprised at Crucial, they will usually take anything back as I have sent ram back many times. I just sent 2 sticks back today.

I am surprised at Crucial, they will usually take anything back as I have sent ram back many times. I just sent 2 sticks back today.

 

This wasn't Crucial, Rich. This was the Computer shop who were too lazy to send it back and advised me Crucial would not give me a replacement. I wasn't happy about it. I binned it.

Dougie, you send it back and you can still do it. Just go to the crucial site here under Australia....there are phone numbers and ways to contact:

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/company-warranty

It sounds as if it's too late to send it back.

 

Dougie already tossed it out?

OH ok too bad they usually warranty everything for life.

OH ok too bad they usually warranty everything for life.

 

Yes Rich I binned the drive. Next time I won't be so hasty.

Ah OK Dougie.

What a day I have had. At 2am this morning my new rig died.It stopped like it was shot. Everything dead. Done all the usual checks including temp hooking up another PSU.

I took the rig to my computer shop and they rang me some time later that the Asrock Z97 extreme 4 had died. This is about 2-3 weeks old. They wanted to give me a new motherboard. I said I bought the parts on your recommendation, You fix the *&&^%^&&** thing. They did replace the Mobo and picked it up and now working great again.

They have seven shops and sold around 400 of these Mobo's and this is only the second that has failed and it had to be me.:angry:

As you know, Rich even quality hardware can fail. Just the luck of the draw.

 

Well the new Rig has died again. Not 2 weeks after the Computer shop replacing the Motherboard. Working fine and switched it off as normal.

Just hit the Power button and frozen on Bios black screen. Options dead.This is starting to become a nightmare.

I got the computer working again. Reset the Bios and gave it a kick into the bargain out of frustration.

See how long it goes for now.:grr:

 

PS. 44.1c here at the moment. Dam Hot.

^How is it going now? It's true though about the luck of the draw even Asus boards fail at times.

^How is it going now? It's true though about the luck of the draw even Asus boards fail at times.

 

One ASUS board fail in 7 yrs so can't really complain. I have always liked ASUS. I also have 3 ASUS HDMI Monitors which also are my pick of all the monitors I have bought over the years.

Been running now for about 20hrs after the hiccup and all seems normal at the moment.

Well I am about to move away from Intel going back to AMD as I told Rich about recently. I am going to try out either the new ASrock fx 939 or go with the tried and true Asus m5a99x. I will be using an FX 8350 now they they are $149.00 @ newegg. Good your board is acting normal now.

I cannot fully explain it but I really do not care what the bench tests show, I feel really good with AMD systems though Catch knows I prefer the FM2+ cpus to AM3 and I just seem to have problem after problem lately with Intel systems which is why I went back to AMD and with current system using a pc has become boring again. All my issues come with the Dell Intel All-in-One now.

I also noticed my AMD systems were smoother - which is in stark contrast to what some would have you believe. Nothing wrong with FM2+ once they get the IPC close to AM3 (or above) there will be lots of people shifting back to AMD I think.

One thing I have always wondered about is the Fm2+ apu in a laptop, really can give great performance at a much better price than an Intel laptop, yet it has never really been pushed and I think that apu solves a lot of laptop issues since the biggest issue they face is dealing with crappy onboard video cards.

The Computer next to me is running an ASUS Mobo and an aging AMD Phenom 11 x 4 965 Deneb 45nm Technology and a SSD Hard Drive.

It runs so smooth and gives no problems whatsoever, and it's not that much slower than this computer running an Intel I7CPU which cost me $399 here.

The extra price can't be justified by performance over AMD.