OK, so I got an Intel 600p 512GB M.2 ssd the other day. And it appears to be running happily on my Gigabyte GA-Z97MX Gaming 5 motherboard. Got my Windows 10 Pro x64 installed, updated, drivers installed, etc. Everything running as it should.
However, I finally got around to installing the latest Intel SSD Toolbox software and figured I would update the firmware on it. It came with PSF100C out of the box and saw that the lastest is PSF109C. Seeing how this drive supports firmware updates from within the app I ran it and here is where my heart attack began. It sat at 5% for about two minutes and then caused Windows to blue screen and crash. Nothing could be done at that point. I rebooted and the system would no longer POST. In the BIOS I no longer had any NVMe drive option. I quickly tried burning the firmware update onto a CD via another computer but no go, it wouldn't see the drive at all in that.
However, and here is where it gets weird, after fully powering down at that point and then powering back up, the drive was suddenly recognized again and upon getting into Windows reports itself as having PSF109C now.
But I really have my doubts that the firmware flashed correctly. Is there a way to force the same firmware to write again with the self-booting CD? I'd love to be able to get piece of mind because the way it stalled and crashed, I'm not confident it wrote properly.