About three weeks ago I switched to run an OCZ SSD Vertex2 60GB drive as my main boot drive running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It's running in a RAID configuration but the OCZ SSD is a non-RAID drive. I loaded the basic apps up (browsers, latest NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat reader, all Windows Update patches to date, Office 2010 Beta) and life is good...system runs rock solid. I follow the Win7 tweaks for the SSD as per the OCZ forum (disable defrag, disable prefetch, etc.) to maximize SSD performance. System scores 7.2 on Windows Experience Index.... No blue screens...no Errors in System Event log...stable as can be.
Today I created a System Restore point and loaded NIS2010 (install to default directory, which is on the SSD drive). I load the app, run Update, reboot the PC on my own accord, log in to Windows and within 5-20 seconds, I get a blue screen of death of the 0x00000007 variety, specifically related to Bug Check when I check Event Viewer. I go into Safe Mode, go back to my System Restore prior to installing Norton, and the system is back and stable and no blue screens. Just to verify I wasn't going insane (read: doing something stupid), I tried to install NIS2010 a second time on the clean System Restore point...only to be met with the same results....total blue screen of death.
My wife is running Windows 7 64-bit Professional, has essentially the same apps loaded, does NOT have an SSD drive as her boot drive (vanilla IDE) with NIS2010 installed...and she has no issues whatsoever. So, it would seem to me the issue is with something around the SSD and/or related tweaks I've made to the SSD/Win7 settings. I am a performance junkie and would love to have the best of both worlds...my SSD tweaks and NIS2010...but it seems like they can't live together. Anyone else run into this issue or have any suggestions?
Rob