01-29-202008:28 AM - last edited on 03-05-202408:23 PM by ROGBot
Over the years I've had this heavily used machine, I have replaced the drives with spinning magnetic disks
I got a Western Digital 500GB SSD with my fingers crossed. The OS (C: ) drive was transferred via Clonezilla. It boots up well, and everything works OK for a while. Then things like taskbar applications stop working ("bad instruction"). Then the video adapter goes blacks out, goes into low res mode. Then the screen quickly goes to black. Not even a cursor is seen. Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Shift-Esc do nothing. There has only been one or two BSODs
chkdsk c: /f /r and 'sfc /scannow' were done. Haven't had time yet to run memtest...not sure if it would help
My G74SX has no hardware changes/upgrades/modifications
mavigozler wrote: Over the years I've had this heavily used machine, I have replaced the drives with spinning magnetic disks
I got a Western Digital 500GB SSD with my fingers crossed. The OS (C: ) drive was transferred via Clonezilla. It boots up well, and everything works OK for a while. Then things like taskbar applications stop working ("bad instruction"). Then the video adapter goes blacks out, goes into low res mode. Then the screen quickly goes to black. Not even a cursor is seen. Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Shift-Esc do nothing. There has only been one or two BSODs
chkdsk c: /f /r and 'sfc /scannow' were done. Haven't had time yet to run memtest...not sure if it would help
My G74SX has no hardware changes/upgrades/modifications
BIOS setting needs to be changed? Suggestions?
Yes changing your SATA Hard drive for a SATA SSD should be no problem they both work through the SATA Controller it doesn't know the difference. If you having issue with Clonezilla I would give Macrium Reflect a shot Its never failed me since 2012 when i found it. The issues your taking about soundl more like OS and Hardware drivers issues or failures
G752VY-DH72 Win 10 Pro 512 GB M.2 Samsung 960 Pro 1 TB Samsung 850 pro 2.5 format 980m GTX 4 GB 32GB DDR 4 Standard RAM
Z97 PRO WiFi I7 4790K Windows 10 Pro Z97 -A Windows 10 Pro
1. Cloned it again with Macrium Reflect (free version) as suggested There were still a problem though, although I also intended to do driver updates of everything
2. First driver update was the video adapter, which had caused no problems for more than 5 years a) I did the update using Windows update tool, and sure enough, it found an updated version b) Then I went to the NVIDIA site directly and did the update of the GeForce 560M
3. Next driver update was going to Intel site to do chipset and wifi adapter drivers: everything already current
4. Windows 10 already knows how to optimize everything else for an SSD: disable Superfetch service, disable hibernate. The only thing it does not set is the power plan, which I changed from "Balanced" to "High Performance" and to disable indexing of the files, which I did.
At this point we are stable and I think the problem is resolved
