NVME SSD randomly disappeared during use

[boveywong]

TLDR: The system randomly hangs, then BSOD, then reboot into BIOS and found the SSD drive disappeared.

 

It doesn't matter if I'm gaming, browsing the internet, or just leaving it on the desktop doing nothing, the system may randomly hang for 10 seconds, then BSOD (DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION).

 

Then it reboots itself, but failed to find the boot drive. So I found the NVME SSD disappeared.

 

After shutting down and reboot, the SSD went back.

 

This is already the second SSD for this motherboard, I've tried to reinstall the SSD physically and made sure the SSD sits securely in the M.2 slot.

The SSD seems fine, and the motherboard is on latest UEFI ver. No CPU or RAM or GPU overclocking applied, everything has been default.

 

This problem has been around for quite sometimes, happens once every 1-2 months very randomly. I may try to reinstall the system when I have imte. But if there's no fix for the issue, I may just give up and upgrade to an AMD system.

 

OS - Windows 10 Pro 1903 x64
Age of system (hardware): 1 year
Age of OS installation: 1 year
CPU: Intel i7-8700K (No OC)

RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR4 16GB 2666MHz x2
GPU: NVIDIA GTX1080 FE
MotherBoard: ASUS Z390-E (UEFI ver 1302)
Power Supply: EVGA 850G3

[Mark Kaine]

I've read about this exact problem often enough by now to conclude nvme tech just isn't really ready yet.