Ssd possible fail.

[JWhite]

Hello 

Pc 

I7 4790k

H100i gtx cooler

16gb ddr3 2400

Gigabyte motherboard

Gtx 970sc 

600 power supply 

Ozc 100 250GB windows installed

Crucial 500gb for steam 

Hello I have been having some problems with my pc for the last 4 months. It started with a drop in performance, then some apps stopped working correctly such as one Internet Explorer woking fine like chrome but then another not working at all both on fresh installs. After a bit of putting up with it, I got a blue screen ( Critical Service Died) I looked it up and did the fixes such as sfc, but it happened again and then continued. I decided it was time to reinstall windows. First it would not let me, then it didn't install right. After the forth try it worked but I turned my pc off to go to bed and in the morning I turned it back on to start working and got another blue screen (windows files missing) so I reinstalled windows but for some reason it installed half of windows on one drive and half on another, so when I gave my second drive to a friend to use my steam library my pc would not work saying that no windows was installed.

 

I finally got windows installed but even now I get a blue screen (critical service died) after reading some more online people said that my ssd could be the problwm. My windows is installed on my OCZ 100 240gb drive so I downloaded there utility, it said my drive was fine, but then my screen froze but i could move my mouse so I opened task manager, everything was fine apart from my disk saying 50% usage but I could not find what was using it according to task manager nothing was, the  task manager froze and blue screen, I think it may have been my drive that was the problem but it's not even a year old. I have taken it out and am trying to install windows no my other drive to see if the issues is still there. 

 

My question for help is do you think that my drive was the problem and is broken or could there be anything else that may be coursing some of these issues. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea this shounds like a bad drive, id try replacing that first.

[Fasauceome]

I've never heard of that SSD brand before. snazzy looking label, and really expensive, but you might want to reach out for warranty service.

[JWhite]

I'm Installing windows on my other drive but taking a long time. 

Looking online it seems that this drive does fail a lot under a lot if use, theres a guy I found who did a test with them and most failed around the 390tb mark but I have only used mine for a boot drive.

I'm going to see if I can get a warranty as in the packaging the warranty stats to take it to them but they don't have a phone line I can use so need to email them, which is going to be a pain.

[JWhite]

18 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea this shounds like a bad drive, id try replacing that first.

I don't know if it was the drive just had the other one hit 99% usage on service host: local system

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, JWhite said:

I don't know if it was the drive just had the other one hit 99% usage on service host: local system

full usage on a drive at startup is normal, esp for a slower drive.

 

You can test your old drive with something like badblocks.

[mr cheese]

12 minutes ago, JWhite said:

Looking online it seems that this drive does fail a lot under a lot if use, theres a guy I found who did a test with them and most failed around the 390tb mark but I have only used mine for a boot drive.

using it as your boot drive subjects it to a lot. Your OS does a lot of operations, from updates to "C:/ only" software to everyday cleaning to scans to this and that and the other. I'm fairly certain that if you've had it as your boot drive for a while it has been through the ringer

[porina]

21 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I've never heard of that SSD brand before. snazzy looking label, and really expensive, but you might want to reach out for warranty service.

OCZ are a gaming brand going back a long way, although they fell into trouble and got bought by Toshiba who I think still owns then.

3 minutes ago, JWhite said:

I don't know if it was the drive just had the other one hit 99% usage on service host: local system

Also check the cable. Certainly, disk problems can cause Windows to freeze, but there might be other things going on too.

[JWhite]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

full usage on a drive at startup is normal, esp for a slower drive.

 

You can test your old drive with something like badblocks.

The dive I'm using is a SSD also it was using 99% while it was downloading windows updates and nothing else. 

[Enderman]

Run crystaldiskinfo to see if it's failing but it most likely is.

 

28 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I've never heard of that SSD brand before. snazzy looking label, and really expensive, but you might want to reach out for warranty service.

OCZ was one of the first companies making SSDs, one of the pioneers, huge back in the day.

Eventually they went bankrupt and got bought out by toshiba.

They are just a crappy budget SSD brand now.

[JWhite]

5 minutes ago, porina said:

OCZ are a gaming brand going back a long way, although they fell into trouble and got bought by Toshiba who I think still owns then.

Also check the cable. Certainly, disk problems can cause Windows to freeze, but there might be other things going on too.

Checked the cable it's fine and installed correctly.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, JWhite said:

The dive I'm using is a SSD also it was using 99% while it was downloading windows updates and nothing else. 

what does crystal disk info look like?

 

Id run badblocks on the drive.

[JWhite]

20 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what does crystal disk info look like?

 

Id run badblocks on the drive.

Badblocks said no problems and Crystal info is in pic.

 

[porina]

Last screenshot only shows the Crucial drive, I presume this is after the reinstall? Do you still have problems? Thought we were trying to diagnose the OCZ drive.

[JWhite]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

Last screenshot only shows the Crucial drive, I presume this is after the reinstall? Do you still have problems? Thought we were trying to diagnose the OCZ drive.

Yeah I took the ocz out so I could install windows with out it and see if the performance issuse are still there. It looks as if it is OK other then it spiking to 99% when downloading windows updates. Just doing some test to see if It crashes like the other, and if not u will test the other one. 

[porina]

1 minute ago, JWhite said:

Yeah I took the ocz out so I could install windows with out it and see if the performance issuse are still there. It looks as if it is OK other then it spiking to 99% when downloading windows updates. Just doing some test to see if It crashes like the other, and if not u will test the other one. 

Some things are disk intensive so hitting 99% isn't a problem in itself.

[JWhite]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

Some things are disk intensive so hitting 99% isn't a problem in itself.

Yeah just tested it by running the ocz utility, when I ran it on the ocz drive it crashed immediately and went to 50% usage but with this one it didn't crash and only reached 1%. 

Crystal Info for ocz in pic. 

[JWhite]

Been using the pc for a few hours, seems to be working, though my CPU temps seem to be a bit off( I7 4790k with h100i gtx, fan speed 1080 rpm, pump 3000rpm, cpu load 25% average temp of around 48c - 50c) dont know if those temps are normal, also my pc does need a clean but isn't that bad. The 25% load is just from running a bowser, after a bit it drops to about 10%.

 

Also having a problem with a windows service coursing my browser not to work, the service is Windows Host; cryptographic services. I start the browser and then that starts running in the background using 10% of CPU, this courses my browser to say establishing secure connection and cant load any pages not even Google. I stopped the service when it pops up and the browser works fine but dont want to haft to wait for it to pop up in task manager then stop it. It ony does this to one of my browser but Edge works fine.