Hello everyone. I am glad to be posting in the T|I forums as I believe this page is FULL of knowledge. So I'm going to throw this at you so you can let me know your opinions and if possible get some help on this strange issue. And the question is... Is it possible for an SSD to alter certain behaviors of a computer such as conflicting with drivers? Now I will explain... [system specs: Eurocom P180HM Leopard 2.0 (BIOS date 9/29/11) Core i7 2630QM Dual Radeon HD 6970M in Crossfire Dual Seagate 750GB (sometimes in RAID, explained below) OCZ Vertex 2 50GB/Crucial M4 128GB (also explained below) 8GB RAM Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit] I recently got my Clevo P180HM / Eurocom Leopard 2.0 (to make it clear... the Sandy Bridge 18.4in dual GPU monster with the piano finish we all abhor) So when my Eurocom came into my house the first thing I wanted to do was stress it and test each and every function of it to be sure I got a good system. And to do that I first added the 3rd hard drive onto it. I installed my (at the moment) good ol' OCZ Vertex 2 50GB. Added OS, and then al the needed drivers. It was a breeze. ALL of the drivers installed correctly with no problem or corruption whatsoever, including the recently released Radeon 11.11 Drivers. Then I added Windows updates. And finally I went ahead and stressed the system to be sure everything worked fine. Ran Crysis for like half an hour on maxed out settings (truly maxed out) with no problem at all. Then I ran Unigine Heaven Benchmark, as I consider it an amazing benchamrk for testing system stability too. I did 5 passes and it didn't break a sweat. Then I ran MSI Kombustor, twice, and again, no errors at all. Rock solid stability. So I decided to go ahead and give the lil' beasts a nice overclock. Adding 120MHz to the 6970Ms was as easy as it gets with Sapphire Trixx, being able to run them @ 800MHz testing them in the same way as before (around half an hour of Crysis, two passes of MSI Kombustor and 5 Unigine Heaven passes. ROCK SOLID. NO issues whatsoever. It was the dream system, I couldn't ask for more... until... I tried recovering from Hibernation, which is the state in which I keep my computer every time I go to sleep, only to discover that my Vertex 2 had the damn SandForce bug, which by the moment was ignored by me, so I did some research to find out what happened and learned about the SandForce bug. Then rushed to the local hardware store and got a good replacement for the drive which was about to fail. I bought a Crucial M4, which I am using at the moment because when I got home the computer had run out of battery and my OCZ Vertex was gone. I tried booting only to make a clone of my drive but was unable to do it. My OCZ is gone for good. So I then skipped 4 of the 5 stages of mourn and accepted it, and with a Marvell-ous M4 in my hand and a rock solid system I thought I had nothing to fear... I mean, it was only a matter of reinstalling everything right? No. Already long story short: The ONLY change made to my computer was the SSD, but now things are VERY different with my system. I was unable to install 11.11 drivers for the 6970M Crosfire, because every time I install them, naturally it has to reboot, so when coming back to Windows witht the drivers now installed I get a atikmdag.sys BSOD before being able to log into windows. The only thing I am able to do is go to safe mode, but I can't uninstall from there, so I have to make use of Windows recovery to let it uninstall the drivers and then clean with Driver Sweeper. Fine... no 11.11?? Well, I got it to work properly with 11.10... but my overclocks cannot even reach the 730MHz!? (Currently running both @ 700MHz... miserable 20MHz OC when I know these are capable of MUCH more) This is absurd considering how solid it was before, and running at 800MHz! Not only that. I cannot make RAID volumes anymore... So, is it possible for the drive to interfere SO much as to cause this issues? As I said, it is the ONLY hardware change made to the system. I already tested the drive enough to know it is not faulty, and even checked it with the Windows utility and no errors or damages are found. The last thing I want to say is that actually the system is quite solid in its current state... but I want better OverClocks! AND my RAID! About RAID, I think I can make it work if I install Intel Rapid Storage thing... it actually enabled the system to RAID last time I tried. What I am really concerned about it the OC. But well, what do you guys think? Strange isn't it? I was thinking on a Firmware update to my Crucial to see if that makes the trick. Maybe even updating the BIOS? Maybe editing the 6970Ms BIOS? Well, I don't know what to do. Maybe even overvolting, but I don't see the need of such tewak if they were running amazingly good before, and even OC'd they were ROCK SOLID. This all points to a Driver related issue, but how come the drivers install properly on one SSD and not as well on the other one???? All help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!