Bought laptop at BB 2 months ago, trying to upgrade to Intel 530 SSD 240gb.
BIOS updated on laptop and firmware updated on SSD.
1st SSD tried to clone with Intel/Acronis... no go. Tried to clone with Apricorn... no go. Both cloning attempts resulted in: CRASH, after installing SSD into the laptop it booted fine and ran fast,after 2 minutes HDD light lit up constant and machine froze. After hard boot SSD was missing from BIOS, messed with a few settings and I could get it back but with same results on restart.
Thought it might be a Windows 8 issue... Tried fresh install of Windows 7, gets to about 90% and restarts... no BSOD, just a window says "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered and unexpected error.Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation" same msg on restart.
RMA'd the SSD, Second SSD did the exact same thing.
Asus support said they won't help me because I modified my machine, I said I upgraded not modified, I pretty much lost that battle.
Any help is appreciated.
BIOS updated on laptop and firmware updated on SSD.
1st SSD tried to clone with Intel/Acronis... no go. Tried to clone with Apricorn... no go. Both cloning attempts resulted in: CRASH, after installing SSD into the laptop it booted fine and ran fast,after 2 minutes HDD light lit up constant and machine froze. After hard boot SSD was missing from BIOS, messed with a few settings and I could get it back but with same results on restart.
Thought it might be a Windows 8 issue... Tried fresh install of Windows 7, gets to about 90% and restarts... no BSOD, just a window says "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered and unexpected error.Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation" same msg on restart.
RMA'd the SSD, Second SSD did the exact same thing.
Asus support said they won't help me because I modified my machine, I said I upgraded not modified, I pretty much lost that battle.
Any help is appreciated.