Samsung Internal Drives

[bjohnson555]

After 3 months my computer began freezing up. I figured out it was the new SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB disk drive. The problems stops happening when I disable Write Cache. For the past 3 months I have been testing it by turn Write Cache On and Off to insure its not something else causing the computer to freeze. When I turn Write Cache On the computer usually freezes within 30 to 60 minutes. When I turn Write Cache Off it runs fine but a little slow. I have run it without Write Cache for over 4 weeks without it freezing up. This is not likely a Driver issue since it work for 3 months without an issue but if there was a place with an updated driver I would try that. Is there anyone else having this issue?

[Coregrinder]

I have the same issue. System freeze within working. Mouse moving works fine till BSOD 0x7A and no dump created.

HD Tune: SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB Information

Firmware version : 2AR10001
Serial number : [Edited: Removed personal information per the community rules and regulations.]
Capacity : 465.8 GB (~500.1 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-8 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : yes
Power-up in Standby : yes
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 100 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 476837 MB
Usage : 46.27%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

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System infos:

Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

HAL Version = "6.1.7601.17514"

Systemmodel Aspire 5920G

BIOS-Version/-DateAcer v1.3813, 18.06.2008

Diskdriver: 6.1.7600.16385

[bjohnson555 · Accepted solution]

Problem Resolved! I think I fixed this issue and it WAS NOT the SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB disk drive causing the computer to freeze. I read about other users having this type of problem and getting a BSOD error when the write cache is enabled with this disk drive and other drives as well. After enabling Write Cache and having the computer freeze, I waited about 2 minutes and finally got a BSOD error KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. Of course, there was no memory dump. I tested the disk drive with SeaTools and everything passed.

I then started looking for other causes. I looked in the Event Viewer under Administrator Events for an Error that shows the first time my computer locked up. I found the first occurrence of the following error:

4/1/2012 10:01:19 PM Event ID: 6008 EventLog: The previous system shutdown at 10:01:19 PM on 4/1/2012 was unexpected.

I then looked in "Program and Features" and found I had installed the Motorola MotoHelper USB driver just the day before. I uninstalled the MotoHelper and the freezing problem stopped happening. It’s been 1 week now and I think it is safe to say Problem Resolved!

[musrusm]

I have same problem. My laptop Samsung RV509 (NP-RV509 S02RU) have bsod about every week with

kernel_data_inpage_error

stop: 0x0000007a (0xc04db488,0xc0000185,0x383328c0)

Physical memory dump failed with status 0x000009c

I have not above mentioned Motorola software. But have this issue about 1 year. Laptop on garanty, and I live in Azerbaycan. How you can help me& Thanks in advance.