So I have G73sw with 16 gigs of ram and the gtx 460m. I recently bought a kingston 64 v200. At first the drive worked great, then I started to notice that my computer would lock up and eventually I would have to do a hard restart. I swapped the drive out only two find that the new one could not be seen by my bios. I swapped a 3 and this one showed in the bios and everything seemed to be working correctly. Problem is when I installed windows 8 preview It took more than 1 hour to install.

I was not use to it taking so long. I figured its possible. I started to install my software and it kept freezing and locking up. I thought this was my 3rd drive no way it could be bad already. I proceeded to try another install(Yes I know bad for a ssd) This time I would hear the disk drive spin up every 3 minutes or so. It would install about 2 percent every 3 or 4 minutes. I tried every which way from sunday. I tried both hard drive bay's and still the same results. I swapped to different disk and still same results.

So at this point I am beyond fustrated. I can't tell if the drive is bad or not but it behaves like it is. The first one works but it malfunctions every so often. I decided to try on a different laptop. Windows 7 installed as fast as could be , that would tell me something is wrong with my laptop right? At this point I am not so sure, because when I installed my momentus xt hdd everything installed normally and its up and running with no on my g73 problems.

So I am confused here. What am i doing wrong aside from buying what seems like a very cheap line of ssd's. I am on bios version 205 I considered updating but was a bit nervous to do so.


Happy thanks giving guys and thanks in advance for any input given.

Oh and yes I know to contact support.