T500 - SSD Corsair Force 3, unreliable Windows 7 start

I put SSD Corsais Force 3 240GB in my T500. My installation is simple - clean W7 and few basics + one audio programme, nothing more. While working smooth and fast overall, there is a consistent problem with Windows start (or restart). Every 2nd, 3rd or 4th time, there is a problem:
1) stuck at Thinkpad initial screen
2) stuck after that with white line blinking in the left corner
3) stuck with black screen after that
4) stuck with "starting windows" message
5) blue death (happened already thrice)
In all the cases I make force switch off and after that Windows start smoothly and quickly, as if nothing happened before. So starting a system is quite a lottery for me, it may or may not start.
Could SSD cause this strange behaviour in principle ?
Or it can be some hardware/software problem ? As I said - my installation is new, clean, with very few things, I plan to use it only for audio work ...nothing else

I don't really have a solution for this problem since i experienced a lot of issues with SSD's that use a Sandforce controller in a Thinkpad. Also when searching for help there seems like a lot of people had similar issues with SSD's on other systems (not only Lenovo) that use a Sandforce Controller like OCZ Vertex 3, Corsair Force 3 and so on. So based on my own experience i will never buy a SSD with a Sandforce controller again and never managed to solve some of the issues we experienced. So my recommendation is to buy a SSD with either the Marvell controller (like the Corsair Performance Pro or Plextor M3p), Indilinx (like the OCZ Vertex 4) or Samsung 830 that use a Samsung controller. The company i work for got almost 300 Thinkpads and we tested a lot of SSD's. We found most of them to work fine and these four without any issues at all. For SSD's with Sandforce controllers we had so many problems i cannot imagine why all of the reviews don't focus more on the lack of stabililty instead of the performance for the SF SSD's.
I guess this is not the answer you were hoping for and not much help, but if you find a solution please let us know since there seems like many others never managed to solve the problems including myself. I believe this is a Corsair firmware problem and not a Thinkpad problem so you could try to ask for help in the Corsair forum or contact Corsair support for help. They might be better suited to solve this problem even if it seems like the SF controller instability is a never ending story.
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