Comments on: SSD Freezing Fix

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:40:08 +0000

This was a LONG time ago (I’ve had two new laptops since this was posted). I sort of thought this issue would be solved with all modern hardware by now (I haven’t experienced it again with any other hardware i’ve had), but maybe not.

I do remember that this fix completely solved the freezing for me. I regularly ran the laptop plugged in, so I didn’t notice a change in battery life if there even was one.

By: lacowi4161

lacowi4161 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:20:59 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this registry fix! I’ve been dealing with a similar “ghost freeze” on my workstation and it was driving me crazy. That specific point about the Link Power Management (LPM) incompatibility is such a deep-dive catch; it’s one of those hidden settings that most users would never think to check when they just want their new drive to work.
I actually ran into a nearly identical issue recently while setting up a dedicated storage array. I was using a high-bandwidth HBA card paired with a PCI-E expander to manage a bunch of SSDs, and I kept getting these weird timeouts. It turns out that many enterprise-grade controllers and expanders have their own aggressive power-saving handshakes that just don’t play nice with consumer-grade drive firmware. It’s frustrating because you buy the hardware for speed and reliability, but these tiny “efficiency” features end up causing total system hangs. Disabling those low-power states is often the only way to get a stable connection when you’re using dedicated controller cards https://serverorbit.com/hba-and-controllers/pci-e/expander-card-en.
Have you noticed any significant change in your laptop’s battery life since disabling LPM, or is the stability improvement so great that the power trade-off doesn’t even matter?

By: Jul

Jul — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:41:49 +0000

In reply to ImplementingSolution. hey man just find the solution, you just have to paste this line at the top of the file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

By: Jul

Jul — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:37:42 +0000

i have the same problem, did u find any solution?

By: ImplementingSolution

ImplementingSolution — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:06:10 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I have windows system where I have added 512 SSD manually and facing the same issue , I have been trying the above fix but not working for me,
I am getting below error :
“Cannot import fixxed.reg, The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.”

If someone knows the fix, will be helpful.

Thanks,

By: Zer0Byte1

Zer0Byte1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:46:13 +0000

Windows 11 22H2 – System was having short freezes constantly. Did this reg import to resolve and it worked. Thank you.

By: Jose Rui Santos

Jose Rui Santos — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:30:38 +0000

In reply to Daniel. If you do as I posted above, it should work fine. The path on those registry entries are not the same for everybody. I strongly recommend to perform the steps I have described and update manually.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 23:06:06 +0000

Hey, I recently ran over this problem on my Linux (PopOS distro) with my new SSD Crutial MX500 disk. Sadly, the solution didn’t work and it still randomly freezes for 5-15 seconds. Does it work only for Windows or is there a way to make it with Linux?

Cheers!

By: Shadow

Shadow — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:07:13 +0000

In reply to Ian.

Excuse me,May I ask?
What Drive did you test it on?

Thanks

By: Jose Rui Santos

Jose Rui Santos — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:14:23 +0000

In reply to p.

It worked for me in Windows 10.
Before blindly apply those registry keys, I strongly suggest you to open the registry editor (regedit.exe) and manually check whether the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor is correct.
In my case, it was incorrect, since my SDD device was not under the folder iaStor (to find out which one, I selected the “services” folder, then pressed Ctrl+f and searched for “LPMDSTATE”). In my case, it was under “iastorv.inf_amd64_9c09bd1df352f065”.

Then, I just manually changed the “LPMDSTATE” from 1 to 0, for each port. I ran into permissions problems, that were solved by https://www.howtogeek.com/262464/how-to-gain-full-permissions-to-edit-protected-registry-keys/