I received the OCZ Agility 30GB SSD yesterday. The Purolator man came by in the afternoon while my parents were away, so I had to sign for it. I don’t know why they use those electronic devices, it’s impossible to sign properly on those, and it seemed that half the screen was affected by the cold and may have been frozen. It made a crazy line that shot up when I attempted to write my last name… 
So my bad luck started then. I decided to wait until the evening to install the drive. What should have been simple and should have taken 15-30 minutes or so ended in disaster. There was nothing wrong with the drive, though. It’s the machine that was the problem. As soon as it booted up, the monitor would not stay powered on, it alternated between a blank screen and power off. I tried both monitors, and although the second one managed to stay on until part of Windows loading was completed, it also powered off the same way.
After trying the obvious, like removing the drive, I thought it was the video card that was causing this. But it was about 1:30AM by the time I figured out that I wasn’t going to solve it for a while, so I went to bed.
I tested the video card in Terminator, and to my surprise, it worked just fine. I reinstalled it in Colossus, but same as before, no power on the monitor. I was puzzled. I decided to remove one memory module, and it seemed to solve the problem. The monitor stayed on! I thought that the module was bad because of this, but after trying the other one in its slot, it didn’t work… as before. So I moved both modules to the other two slots that the manual says not to use when only 2 modules are installed. I have no idea why they say so. But it works fine now. Those DDR RAM slots are really hard to install modules into, though. I hate them, they shouldn’t require the force of Colossus to push them in. I hope I won’t have to touch them anymore.
The OCZ SSD is fast, so I’m glad I got it. It’s just unfortunate that I had to go through all this when I installed it. Maybe moving the case loosened the RAM, or something happened to the slot one module was in somehow. It was a nightmare, but it’s over now.