• Kingston SV300 firmware update failing?
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So Kingston SSD manager is telling me there's a new firmware available for my SSD which apparently: This firmware provides the following: --Fixed case where drive will temporarily become unreadable causing IO errors which may lead to OS freezing. Power cycle of the SSD will resolve the issue I didn't experience this yet, but would like to update anyways. Thankfully Kingston SSD Manager also gave me the option to update the firmware and here comes the problem: It doesn't work. Everytime I click "update firmware" it just shows: "An unexpected error ocurred when attempting to update the firmware." There's an "events" window where it shows this: "[50026B7744052BD2]: Firmware processing completed with error 1", but none of that is helpful. Googling this tells me it's either a problem of not running the drive in AHCI mode, which I'm pretty sure I do as I set AHCI before installing Windows on this drive in the BIOS or the other "solution" I found was to stick the SSD into a second PC to update it's firmware, which I don't have. Weirdly enough, if I run Kingston's SSD Toolbox(a newer manager program) it tells me to run it in "ACHI" mode, propably just a typo for AHCI, how would I do this exactly if AHCI is enabled in the BIOS and Windows? Apparently you can get some firmware updates for Kingston SSD's on a ISO, for e.g. Macs, but that isn't available for my model. Any help? Or should I just stick to "never touch a running system" until I experience said IO errors?
If you're not having the problem I wouldn't bother.
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