At a loss, is my SSD dieing?

Heya,

Bout 3 days ago my computer started freezing up in the log in screen (thread is gonna sound kinda reminiscent to another previous) but stranger is the lock up only happened if I'd leave my computer off for an extended period of time; bout an hour or more.  Once I reboot everything went back to normal and seemed fine.  I'd made no changes in the system settings for awhile now.  SO I ran ccleaner, chkdsk, memtest, some antivirus yada yada and it would still happen and everything came back fine.  I ran hdtune as well as suggested and no errors found there either.  My SSD just houses my OS (I know they have a limited life) but I said to hell w/ it and reinstalled win 7 hoping it was possibly a reg error or I don't know.  NOW however things have gotten strange, as win7 with a clean install won't allow me to do certain things saying explorer.exe crashed from a failure from communication with the server?  It also comes back frequently and says I may not have an authentic copy of windows and then authenticates and is satisfied.  I know its authentic it's the disc that was shipped w/ the system.  It doesn't want to seem to update, it won't even allow me to adjust the personalization settings, I read online from people having like problems that theirs was a result of a bad install from the User profiles but when I go into make a new administrator account it locks up. 

When it hung on the start up screen the mobo led indicated the primary boot device most of the time; tho once it said it was the VGA.  The fact that it would only have problems if left alone is curious to me all of which is why I'm wondering if it could possibly be hardware or what do you guys think?  Is chkdsk and such pretty definitive way to be certain or are there better ways to proceed?

Unfortunately I didn't get any dump files and no longer have the event viewer logs.  The only reason I was suspicious of the SSD is it just seemed odd that having it off for prolonged periods would contribute to the problem?  Also the behavior of the UI was similar to when you run your baseclock really high or the PCIE frequency but I had removed all the overclocking.

After the last reinstall I couldn't get to the event viewer, every time I tried to access it then it would pop up an error saying iexplorer.exe has crashed and it failed to connect to server. 

Anyway tho, I unplugged the other drive and did another clean and fresh install and now everything seems to be in order.  I don't understand how things got so conflicted.  Something maybe got garbled in the registry?  I wish I understood these things better.  I'm still concerned if the locking up at start up returns then whats the best way to proceed?  Also is there any software that automatically checks and updates your drivers for the entire system that is worth investing in?  Asus always wants me to buy one of their programs but the reviews are never any good.

Thanks for response

what SSD are you running?

Yah its the X-25M.  

I just found that last night actually googling on SSDs.  It came back up all green tho other than some system tweaking it wanted to do.  I didn't see it gave you an approximation on the drive's life tho.  I'll have to go back and find that.  I'm guessing something just got corrupted from playing around with bios settings awhile back and crashes between voltage adjustments.  Would it be safer to overclock from an OS stored on a bootable drive, that way when you bsod system files couldn't get screwy?  Is this a completely impossible idea?  I know Windows specifically has an API it calls on to gear itself towards different hardware so it can be some what independent of hardware manufacturers, so then if you were stable in Linux it would be irrelevant in comparison to ones chances at stability in Win7?

I'm sure this idea doesn't work for one reason or another as I've never seen anyone suggest it, but I'm curious why?  Hopefully its not to absurd a question.