Not sure if I got a bad SSD of if the laptop is just not compatible with it.
My mom wanted to speed up her laptop so I ordered her a 250GB 850 EVO, her laptop is pretty old, it was made back in 2009.
I cloned her hard drive using True Image 2013 and put the SSD into her laptop, I didn't have her password so I left it turned on at the password screen. After a few minutes it blue screen'd on me.
So I go into the BIOS and check the SATA mode, it is in AHCI mode. I got the password from my mom and booted into windows thinking maybe it needed to install some drivers but after a few minutes I got another blue screen.
Next I tried a clean install, the first time I got some odd errors that windows could not complete the installation. I disconnected and reseat the SSD in her laptop, Windows 7 completes the install this time but it booted up in the classic mode with the grey task bar and blue background image like a server install and gave an error that a service was not running and only admins would be able to log in because of it.
After work today I am planning to try the SSD in my desktop with a Haswell CPU.
I am thinking I got a DOA SSD but wanted a second opinion.
Have you tried with a different version of Windows? You could try using the Windows 10 preview. I had an old laptop that I upgraded and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7. Every time I booted it up it bluescreened so I tried installing Windows 8 and that solved the bluescreens. Not sure if Windows 7 wasn't compatible or if the Windows CD had been corrupted in any way. What kind of blue screen do you get? Try googling it and see if anyone has found a solution.
It can't be a DOA as it wouldn't show up and definitely not let you install Windows. It could just be a SSD that went bad under manufacturing and got through quality control.
Have not tried another version of windows yet, only have the 7 disc. I'll have to check with some friends and see if they have an 8.1 disc
I also want to try it on my desktop because of the newer chipset, I hope I do not have to exchange it. I also have a 500 gig that I ordered for myself so I might try that one on her laptop also
I had a 840 evo in a (late?) 2008 macbook at one time. It worked well enough but it would hang/crash if doing a lot of IO. I never really found out exactly why but sata3 was faster than what the macbook could do, and I guess something was starting to go bad in the macbook and it would have a much greater chance of showing up when maxed out.
It would work fine for days and then a series of thousands of little copies would just not finish and it would lock up completely. It still running now but I don't use it for anything major any more because of that issue.
I would say something else in the old laptop has gone bad, check the ssd in another machine.
Perhaps there was corrupted data on the original drive which you cloned on to the new drive. Use diskpart to format, clean, and partition the new drive then run L2 chkdsk before attempting a clean windows install, and use a confirmed working ISO on a new install medium. Also worth mentioning that running DBAN on the drive is an option as a last ditch attempt at getting the drive into a usable state. Because it overrwrites the entire drive, including bad sectors, etc. sometimes it resolves impossible or illogical issues. The data recovery video Wendell posted recently ennumerates some great utilities you can use for verification as well.
The SATA cable used to connect the ssd to the motherboard was going bad. Ive fixed a macbook that had that same problem. Im still pissed at Apple, why the fuck would you include another point of failure, WHY. And why the fuck is that cable 60$ to replace. /rant
Looks like it is indeed a bad SSD, I attempted to install Ubuntu with it installed in my laptop and the whole computer froze and I could not even move the mouse, I opened up a return on Newegg