Won't wake after after install SSD + HDD

[kazaaerato]

Gentlemen:

My thinkpad has difficulty waking up after I put it to sleep after installing SSD in the default port....

So the story is this:

I bought a crucial SSD m4 and take out my old T510 HDD (500 GB) normal HDD. And then I put my old HDD into the Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter and swap out the DVD ROM bay...

So now my system has a SSD and HDD. I have win 7 64 bit installed. But the problem is after doing this...

My thinkpad has difficulty waking up (take one minute to activate the HDD in the adaptar bay), but once I take out the HDD and put the CD rom back in. The system wake up immediately.

Could you please tell me how to resolve this issue. Thank you so much!

[redhook]

Have you updated the drives firmware?

http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

If that doesn't work take the drive back and get a Corsair Force series. I have one in my T510 with the same setup as you and have no issues. The T510 doesn't have a SATA-III controller so you will not lose any performance and the Corsair Force series has faster write speeds.

[jayton4]

My thinkpad has difficulty waking up (take one minute to activate the HDD in the adaptar bay), but once I take out the HDD and put the CD rom back in. The system wake up immediately.

That is weird. I have a similar setup using the Corsair Force GT and it works exactly like it should. Did you do a factory restore of the Win7 to the SSD? Are any lenovo programs or drivers removed?

The T510 doesn't have a SATA-III controller so you will not lose any performance and the Corsair Force series has faster write speeds.

There are many situations where a sata3 drive will still perform better on a sata2 interface than a sata2 drive. Corsair Force (either sata2 version or the Force 3) are very good drives.

[kazaaerato]

Gentlemen, thanks for the help.

So basically I bought ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter III. And I put the original HDD into this bay, and set the SSD has the main drive. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to use the Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2. Because it is an emergency project.

Any tips on how to solve this issue? Thank you.,

Have you updated the drives firmware?

http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

If that doesn't work take the drive back and get a Corsair Force series. I have one in my T510 with the same setup as you and have no issues. The T510 doesn't have a SATA-III controller so you will not lose any performance and the Corsair Force series has faster write speeds.

[jayton4]

Gentlemen, thanks for the help.

So basically I bought ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter III. And I put the original HDD into this bay, and set the SSD has the main drive. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to use the Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2. Because it is an emergency project.

Any tips on how to solve this issue? Thank you.,

Is Hybrid Sleep turned on?

Is there a page file still active on the old HDD?

Are you sure you are not doing hibernation instead?

What method did you use to install the OS?

[kazaaerato]

I download all the drives from lenovo updates. and the problem is not going away. the lenovo people say it is a software issue...not a hardware issue...

[kazaaerato]

not sure how to check hibernation sleep on windows 7

[kazaaerato]

i don't know how to check the page file; but i do install some program files in the D drive which is the HDD in the adaptar bay... but i'm not sure if this is what causing the problem... there are not that many program in the D drive. the main application such as SAS and Office are all in C drive.

Thank you! Please help....

[kazaaerato]

the recovery is done via recovery image...