I am trying to install a samsung 830 SSD in my brand new Macbook pro. Whenever I install it and boot the mac I get three beeps.
When I put the old HD back in it workes fine. The SSD workes fine on a windows machine.
I have seen other macbooks with this SSD work just fine.
What could be the problem?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3), samsung 830 SSD
Three beeps indicates a hardware problem, usually RAM...sure your RAM is fully seated after you opened things up?
Three beeps indicates a hardware problem, usually RAM...sure your RAM is fully seated after you opened things up?
That is what I also tought at first, so I removed the ram, then reinstalled it.
Still the same problem, SSD gives me three beeps HDD works fine.
SSD also works fine on my Windows desktop.
Insufficient RAM or corruption on that drive can also cause this. Have you tried formatting the drive again, with a single partition(Extended Journaled, GUID partition), then cloning your existing drive to this drive?
The samsung SSD comes with a very handy USB cable so I hooked it up to my Imac and repartitioned the disk.
The SSD works without problems on the mac too apparently.
Unfortunately the Macbook still gives me the three beeps when I put the SSD back in. 😟
This is quite frustrating, both the SSD and the Mac are brand new.
If I cant solve it myself which do I send back? The Macbook works fine with the original disk, the SSD works fine in any other PC.
I will try to clone my existing OSX to the SSD and let you know if it worked.
Even if that worked I still would not be confident everything is fine.
The last thing I want is to find out my Macbook is malfunctioning 2 days after the warranty is expired. (wouldnt be the first time 😝)
Thanks for the help so far!
Alright I found the solution.
It turned out that I could not boot from the disk because it did not have a Recovery Partition.
When I wanted to start cloning the original HD to the SSD, carbon copy cloner gave me the notification that there was no Recovery partition available and the cloned HD might not boot.
Luckily it also gave me the option to make a Recovery partition, which I did.
Before I cloned the disk, i tried if the SSD would now be able to boot.
It did! 😀
Thank you for the help, your suggestions led me to the solution!
I will be installing Lion now.
I bought a 830 SSD too
Is there any problem with turning off your mbp?
Mine can not be turned off comletely now.
No problems here, it is working like a charm for me. Very fast :D
Curious how long your computer takes to boot. I installed my 830 SSD about a week ago and it boots in about 46 seconds from power off to full desktop. Before with my 500GB 7200rpm HDD it took about 1 minute 40 seconds. Obvioulsy 46 seconds is much faster but I was thinking more like <30 seconds. Just curious what others are getting.
Hello JRizzy,
My macbook boots in roughly 10-14 seconds to the full OSX lion desktop.
Booting in Windows 7 trough bootcamp takes much longer tough, it is stuck on a black screen with only a blinking underscore like stripe for about 10 extra seconds. After that it is fast as ever.
I dont mind the longer windows boot time since I hardly ever use it anyway.
If yours takes 30+ seconds to boot in OSX on a 13" Macbook i5 from 2012 (like mine) or 2011, something is wrong.
I figured it out. Apparently there's a setting you have to select when you install a new hard drive to choose that drive as the startup disk. If you don't, you're computer waits 30 seconds when you first turn it on to search for a startup drive. Changed the setting and it now boots in 16 seconds!
HeyJRizzy, where was this setting? I cloned my 128gb onto the samsung 830 256gb ssd and I too am experiencing that 30 second pause when I power on the MBP. I did go into "startup disk" in preferences but I didnt see anything related to your solution.
Go to System Preferences, under "System" select "Startup Disk", then select your SSD drive as the startup disk.
i did go into startup disk but theres only the one HD listed?
JRizzy, I clicked it and hit restart..that seemed to fix it. Thanks again!
Should've set to restart first, but you figured it out. Glad to help 😉
Install a samsung 830 SSD in my macbook pro 2011.
