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Are the temps ok?

Hi, friend of mine has an Apacer Panther 250GB (red one) SSD. He's got it for 5 months, he runs windows from it and during the last month his computer started to slow down. Last week I tried to do something with it via teamviewer, it started BSODing with a memory error. And whenever I tried turning off his "run after os' start" aplications. They were on after a reboot. Same when I tried uninstalling programs etc. It just seems to revert back to it's previous state every reboot. When I tried to fresh install windows on it, I could not format the disk and install process led into an error. I plugged it in my pc, tried diskpart, windows partition manager and some low level hdd formatting program but with no results. The process would complete but there will still be all of those partitions, files etc. I heard SSDs get locked when the controller thinks an error occured so in order to prevent data loss, it sets the disk to read-only mode. Could this be it? It's almost brand new and It's got 2 years of warranty so it does not make sense to me. Do you please have any clue? Any tip appreciated. Thanks.

I have the rig at home now. I'll do some testing... if anyone has any tip, hit me up please.

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Does anybody have a clue what could cause this?

Hi, I really need your help. My friends PC is kinda new, maybe like 2 months old. I was here to build it for him. All of the sudden computer seems to crash, no BSOD just a plain error. PC stops outputting video/audio signal, all interaction is completely dead. You just have to hard reset it. It happened time to time, then it was more frequent. Like 2 times a day. So I took the computer to my house and started testing. Set bios to default, updated it with a proper bios version. Run all kind of stress tests: 10 hour memtest, furmark stress test, cpu-z stress test and then AIDA64 combined. No errors at all. All temps good. So I thought it was solved by some bios settings. And of coure it worked as intended in my hands. Some time later I received a call from him. He says it started doing all over again, time to time from the beginning and now it does like 5 times a day. He even tried to plug the computer in different power outlets. Nothing solved that. I don't know what could cause this. I have some suspicion that the PSU might be faulty, but there is no way of me trying that out. Side note: All of the drivers are up to date, tried rolling back to an older gpu driver but with no result. Only generic usb devices are plugged in. 2nd side note: Windows logs are just saying something caused critical error such a loss of power. specs CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Mobo: B450M Pro4-F RAM: Patriot Viper 4 3000Mhz CL16 GPU: XFX GTS Radeon RX 580 PSU: Corsair VS650 OS SSD: Apacer 256GB HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB Don't ask me why, but price played a biggest role. I would appreciate any help. If you could assure me that it's really caused by some faulty hardware or the PSU itself, it would be very nice. Thank you and sorry for my bad grammar.

Well, it's kinda a new build. Windows was installed about 2-3 months ago. GPU drivers are up to date and there are only devices with generic drivers plugged in. Not sure about that, but ty for a tip, I'll have a look at the software again.

Hi, it's kinda hard to diagnose a pc error from a distance, but friend of mine experiences some weird errors on his pc. The pc freezes, stops giving video and audio output and reset is required. From what I found out it does this thing more frequently then before. I know the memory modules are OK thanks to memtest I was able tu run when I had his pc at my house. - I had all the tests running almost a day and no error occured. There were some XMP settings set, so I told him to set bios default and now I'm just waiting for him to tell me if it does the same. All the termals are OK. And if the default is not going to help I really do not know what could cause this. Maybe a faulty PSU? Would appreciate any help. TY

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Thank you all for the replies. I'm currently using crappy LG M2432 TV as my monitor and I'm kinda used to play FPS games on it. I was about to buy a new monitor many times but my expectations and current models made me wait a little bit everytime, so I ended up stuck for a few years like this. Any high refresh rate monitor would be a huge upgrade at this point and I don't even think if I mind a little bit of a response time. Tbh not many people are professional gamers and I'm not even sure if there's someone who would really notice the difference. I just want all-around monitor with the specs in the OP. I sometimes do photo and video editing and play other non FPS games so it would be nice to have crisp image and decent colors. I also do not want to cheap out on it, but it shouldn't be more than 1000€. So I'm trying to choose wisely.