SSD dead

[tehguy]

Hi all. I bought an OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD from Scan not long ago (2 weeks max). Fresh install of Win7 64bit and all was good. The performance of this drive on SATA3 is phenomenal.

Anyway a couple of days ago I randomly got a BSOD...caused by ntfs.sys (this is normally a drive error).

Rebooted and all was fine again.

I went to turn my PC on this morning and the SSD is not detected by BIOS and thus I cannot boot Windows.

Things I have tried so far

Changing the SATA3 cable for another
Changing the SATA3 cable for a SATA2 cable (I swapped the SSD and my BD-RE drive around, the BD-RE drive is detected still but the SSD is not)
Changing the SATA power cable
Changing the SATA port it is connected to with 3 different cables
Putting the SSD in another PC
Changed from ACHI to IDE
Updated my mobo BIOS

So far none of the above have worked, it is not detected at all. The little LED light on the SSD circuit board still lights up when it has power but it has just disappeared.

Right now I'm doing a CMOS hard reset on my main PC (power and battery out) and I'm going to do a rinse and repeat of everything I have tried again but I believe the drive is dead. After a quick Google it appears that I am not the only person who has had this happen to me.

So does anyone have any ideas? Before you suggest flushing my DNS or anything stupid, I am very technically minded. Thanks

[tehguy]

I should probably list my system specs too:

Asus P8P67 Pro revision B3 (latest firmware)
Intel Core i7 2600K (stock)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB RAM
OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD
WD Velociraptor 300GB
a few other drives
BD rewriter

[tehguy]

Triple post...

Hard CMOS reset did nothing (I suspected since the SSD didn't work in another PC that it wouldn't).

I've also tried it on the Intel SATA ports and it still doesn't work so it's not a problem with the Marvel ports.

[Sputnik]

When you put it in another PC did you try running OCZ toolbox to see if it could detect it? It does sound like the drive is dead to me.

[Phage]

If the SSD is not recognised by either PC, then it sounds dead.
RMA I'm afraid.

[d3fiant]

it does sound dead but I have had a similar issue with a 100Gb Vertex LE, non-detection in bios HOWEVER when I ran the OCZ firmware upgrade tool it somehow detected the drive, upgraded the bios and didnt loose any data and after a reboot all was OK, not saying that will work for you and obviously a firmware update carries risk (Ive flashed fw hundreds of times on many devices not had a single issue, just an FYI)

[PowerPie5000]

There's always something that puts me off buying an SSD for my rig... Maybe i should wait a couple more years when the tech has matured, larger capacities are available and most importantly... When those obscene prices have come down!

[tehguy]

The last thing I'm going to do is test it on a non-Asus motherboard, although I have still opened an RMA.

[Sputnik]

I would have tried to update the firmware using the OCZ toolbox like Defiant said.

[Phage]

If it was out of warranty, then I'd try a Flash too. But inside the warranty period I wouldn't like to try and fight the argument that I'd bricked it with a bad flash.