I just decided to improve performance of my Dell Studio 1737 with the installation of a brand new Samsung 850 EVO 128Gb SSD as an alternative to the factory installed Seagate HD. I used Samsung's migration software to clone my officially upgraded (from Vista) version of Windows 7 Home premium to the new SSD and which went well. Required functionalities like trimming, garbage collection, switching off Windows indexing and aligning the disk structure have also been carried out using the Samsung migration software. Bios (A09) already ran in the required AHCI mode.
After booting up my system became very unstable. Many times booting stops after ten seconds, the screen freezes and stays black. After a couple of re-boots the system every now and then seem to start up in a normal way, but it could well be that the next reboot will end up in a black screen again.
Windows system event viewer reports multiple critical ACPI error events (ID 13), which are repeated every minute. Description ": The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC incorrectly. You should check with your computer manufacturer for an upgraded BIOS. In some situations, this error may cause the computer to function incorrectly."
I ran Dell diagnostics (F12) but that did not report any errors. Furthermore I followed many suggestions given on the Internet, re checked proper installation of the SSD but sofar without any results.
Currently I haven't any clue what to do to resolve this matter. Hope anyone can helpme out.
