Craftyawesome

Modern CPUs/GPUs will boost depending on temperature, so it is quite possible they are using more power and creating more heat energy then they were before. This is generally not considered throttling until the temperature and clock drop becomes excessive. I don't think "20 C worth of heat" is the right way to look at it. Larger objects take more energy to raise their temperature by a fixed amount. Think of it this way, if a CPU is drawing 100W and it is maintaining the same temperature, then 100W of heat is being dissipated. A better cooler can do this with a smaller difference between ambient and CPU temp, but it is still dissipating 100W.

There are some Ethash coins left AFAIK. And some of that hashrate is ASICs and not GPUs.

I tried the memory and disk tests in both supportassist and the pre-boot diagnostics and they passed. Memtest86 passed. I'll run memtest86 overnight. If I can't get an error, what do you think is the most likely cause? Mobo, RAM, or the drive itself? Is there any chance the slot is bad? I can try swapping the drives and see if things go worse with the primary drive in the second slot. Also, how often did it happen on the ASUS?

I haven't found anything obviously related other than "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first" which is obviously not the cause.

Hmm. I hope I don't have to RMA the whole laptop. And to clarify, the drive is already secondary, so I don't think a live usb would change the symptoms.

I couldn't move it with the screw down, so that's probably fine.

I couldn't see any pins, but I removed/reinserted it anyway to see if that helps this time.

A linked it. But if you want a screenshot

I currently only have 55GB free, but this has been happening while I had >100GB free. I think it is counting leaving some sort of idle state as a cycle? The included drive is supposedly over 51k. I did remove/reinsert the drive earlier and IIRC it felt snug. Although that did make me think of something. The laptop doesn't include the mount for the second m.2 slot. And instead of going through dell support to probably have to pay anyway, I just got a third party one off of amazon. Could the tolerances be just barely off? Maybe I can try to remove the drive and try to shift the mount a fraction of a millimeter closer to the slot? I did update the firmware earlier and run all the diagnostic tests in magician (all passed). It has 8, but only two are non-zero. (It matches what HWinfo shows but in kelvin) smart.csv

My Samsung 980 has been dropping out on my Dell G15 5515 laptop running windows 10 64 bit. What happens is that my drive randomly stops responding. Explorer locks up if I try to use it and so will other programs expecting to use the drive. It also prevents me from shutting down with the windows menu because it will either get stuck on the shutting down screen or it won't even show that screen at all. I've gotten it to happen somewhat consistently a couple different ways. Sometimes steam game updates that have a lot of disk access will cause it. The other way is that it happens after a few hours of leela training (mostly random read workload). It has also happened with no/little foreground disk usage, but maybe steam was downloading in the background. On the last post I made, I eventually found that hwinfo showed a second thermal sensor (likely the controller temp) that I saw as high as 99C, so I assumed it was just thermal shutting down. So I got a heatsink, but now I've seen it stop working as low as 90C. So I don't think it's a thermal problem. Is there anything software related I should try, or is it just a bad drive? I've tried: Physically unplugging and reinserting the drive Trying the chipset drivers from both AMD and Dell All 4 diagnostic scans in samsung magician. All pass. Updated drive firmware Updated BIOS (1.6.0) Reset bios to optimized defaults Running the longer scans while downloading a game update. The percentage gets stuck, and the eta decreases until it gets stuck at 0.

For anyone who finds this, I suspect I found the problem. HWinfo reads 2 different sensors, and the second (probably the controller) is getting really hot under load. I guess it doesn't shutdown in a way that communicates that windows/programs can handle. Seems I probably need a ssd heatsink. Edit: Still happening with lower temperatures. Will be making a new post.

I think that must include leaving some sort of power saving mode. All of my drives seem higher than what is realistic otherwise. The boot drive is actually higher and works fine.

My Samsung 980 has been dropping out on my Dell G15 5515 laptop. What happens is that my drive randomly stops responding. Explorer locks up if I try to use it and so will other programs expecting to use the drive. It also prevents me from shutting down with the windows menu because it will either get stuck on the shutting down screen or it won't even show that screen at all. The only way I have gotten it to happen somewhat consistently is steam game updates that have a lot of disk access. It has also happened with no/little foreground disk usage, but maybe steam was downloading in the background. It has also happened without steam running at all. Is there anything software related I should try, or is it just a bad drive? I've tried: Physically unplugging and reinserting the drive Trying the chipset drivers from both AMD and Dell All 4 diagonistic scans in samsung magician. All pass Updated drive firmware Updated BIOS Reset bios to optimized defaults Running the longer scans while downloading a game update. The percentage gets stuck, and the eta decreases until it gets stuck at 0. Watching cystaldiskinfo and pressing F5 while downloading an update. I have seen it stop working lower than 55 C.

FWIW, only the OLED with the new dock can do 4k60 at 4:4:4. The older switches/docks only have 2X displayport 1.2 lanes which is converted to hdmi 1.4.

To add a little more info, AFAIK the versions listed in the OP fix the LDAP attack vector. Unfortunately, this isn't enough.