SSD causing BSOD

[ewddd]

Writing this from my phone.

 

 

I got a new Samsung 870 qvo 2tb. It seems to be causing a inaccessible boot drive error.

 

 

Windows is on another SSD a old Kingston sv300s37a240g or that is what BIOS tells me.

 

I can't give you guys the crash logs since I can't even get that far into windows.

 

I have a MSI X99a SLI PLUS motherboard

A Intel i7-5820k

 

My other samsung ssd is a 860 evo 1tb. It caused me the same problem when I put it in a year ago. I can't remember how I got it to work but I know it bricked a pair of hdd.

 

 

I also reset windows and managed to format both the 860 and the 870 but they where not plugged in at the same time.

 

Can you guys please help me. I have been trying to fix it for like 6 hours or more and I don't know what to do.

[TetraSky]

Not sure if I'm understanding this right.

Did you make sure your first boot device in the BIOS, was your SSD with Windows on it? Because the BIOS doesn't tell you which SSD has Windows on it, it's up to you to know which one it is.

[ewddd]

Just now, TetraSky said:

Not sure if I'm understanding this right.

Did you make sure your first boot device in the BIOS, was your SSD with Windows on it?

Yes

 

[ewddd]

I'm going to try and yeet the Kingston as it's like 6 years old and to reinstall Windows from a external ssd onto the 860. I hope it works.

[Ty2525]

If windows is telling you that your boot drive is inaccessible, and your boot drive is the older Kingston drive. I am not sure how you came to the conclusion the Samsung drive is causing it. If multiple drives "caused" this issue, reinstall windows and wipe all the drives as it appears to me something isn't working right, might be windows, might be a program on one of the drives. But that is not normal with any drives let alone two drive in a single pc to cause that issue. That, imo, points to the windows drive either having an issue, which can be checked with smart, or windows is corrupted. 

[StDragon]

41 minutes ago, ewddd said:

I got a new Samsung 870 qvo 2tb. It seems to be causing a inaccessible boot drive error.

 

I can't give you guys the crash logs since I can't even get that far into windows.

 

I also reset windows and managed to format both the 860 and the 870 but they where not plugged in at the same time.

 

Can you guys please help me. I have been trying to fix it for like 6 hours or more and I don't know what to do.

 

If the SSD is failing, it can cause Windows to throw a BSOD because of the inability to write back to the drive. That's why you won't find minidump log files recorded.

That said, its extremely rare for SSDs to just fail like that; especially if new.

Are you sure you're not OCing the CPU or RAM?

[ewddd]

4 minutes ago, StDragon said:

 

If the SSD is failing, it can cause Windows to throw a BSOD because of the inability to write back to the drive. That's why you won't find minidump log files recorded.

That said, its extremely rare for SSDs to just fail like that; especially if new.

Are you sure you're not OCing the CPU or RAM?

I don't know how to overclock. Also it was working fine till I stuck in the new SSD.

[ewddd]

34 minutes ago, ewddd said:

I'm going to try and yeet the Kingston as it's like 6 years old and to reinstall Windows from a external ssd onto the 860. I hope it works.

Ok so the pc won't boot from the external. I'm going to try to get the Kingston and the 860 to boot together and the try to reinstall Windows onto the 860 or maybe just run on those two till I can figure this shit out.

[Ty2525]

30 minutes ago, Ty2525 said:

If windows is telling you that your boot drive is inaccessible, and your boot drive is the older Kingston drive. I am not sure how you came to the conclusion the Samsung drive is causing it. If multiple drives "caused" this issue, reinstall windows and wipe all the drives as it appears to me something isn't working right, might be windows, might be a program on one of the drives. But that is not normal with any drives let alone two drive in a single pc to cause that issue. That, imo, points to the windows drive either having an issue, which can be checked with smart, or windows is corrupted. 

 

13 minutes ago, ewddd said:

I don't know how to overclock. Also it was working fine till I stuck in the new SSD.

If you have a windows installer USB flash drive, or can make one, reinstall windows with it and wipe all the drives you want to use with the PC inside the installer. To do this, just boot to the USB and where it shows all the drives before the installation installs, you can simple click on partitions and delete them or just click format on the drives. ENSURE you know which drives are being formatted and gather any data you don't want deleted.

[ewddd]

1 minute ago, Ty2525 said:

 

If you have a windows installer USB flash drive, or can make one, reinstall windows with it and wipe all the drives you want to use with the PC inside the installer. To do this, just boot to the USB and where it shows all the drives before the installation installs, you can simple click on partitions and delete them or just click format on the drives. ENSURE you know which drives are being formatted and gather any data you don't want deleted.

I need to buy a new flash drive to do that with. I already formatted both the 860 and the 870.

[Ty2525]

1 minute ago, ewddd said:

Ok so the pc won't boot from the external. I'm going to try to get the Kingston and the 860 to boot together and the try to reinstall Windows onto the 860 or maybe just run on those two till I can figure this shit out.

I highly recommend just formatting every drive, then install windows with them connected. Keeping everything inside the PC and formatted together will make it easier to determine any drive's at fault for the issues by keeping them organized until you can boot into a new copy of windows and perform process of elimination after booting into a known good copy of windows. Taking them out, or putting them in other computers can make it easy to confused yourself and then you might end up wasting time doing things you've already done. 

 

Good Luck!

[ewddd]

1 minute ago, Ty2525 said:

I highly recommend just formatting every drive, then install windows with them connected. Keeping everything inside the PC and formatted together will make it easier to determine any drive's at fault for the issues by keeping them organized until you can boot into a new copy of windows and perform process of elimination after booting into a known good copy of windows. Taking them out, or putting them in other computers can make it easy to confused yourself and then you might end up wasting time doing things you've already done. 

 

Good Luck!

Thanks for the help now just to pray to the machine spirits it bloody works with the two SSD it's been working with for the past year.

[ewddd]

Could it be a mother board or CPU problem?

[Ty2525]

11 minutes ago, ewddd said:

Could it be a mother board or CPU problem?

Unlikely but possible. That said, according to the stats I just made up for the sake of the conversation, there is a 99.99% chance it is just windows or one of your drives having issues. Both of which would be solvable by installing windows and going forward from there. 

[ewddd]

Honsetly I might take it in to a professional repair shop and see if they can fix it.

[Ty2525]

2 minutes ago, ewddd said:

Honsetly I might take it in to a professional repair shop and see if they can fix it.

That is always a real option, but for money reasons, I recommend just reinstalling windows and going from there. Although the value of money is very much subjective, if you have spent 6 hours trying to fix it. And we factor in windows takes less than half hour to install, it makes a lot of sense to just format ALL drives and restart with a fresh copy of windows. 45 minutes and you can at least ensure a drive is actually bad and its not just windows. USB flash drives, at least in my market, cost just a few dollars. You could also just barrow one and use another PC to make the installation media. Good luck! If you need help installing windows from a flash drive, which I recommend, I will gladly walk you through it  

[ewddd]

I'm just going to take her up to a local shop and see if they can do it. I got the money to pay for repairs and shit. Thanks for all the tips and advice. I hope this has provid a fun topic for someone to dive into.

[Ty2525]

 

9 minutes ago, ewddd said:

I'm just going to take her up to a local shop and see if they can do it. I got the money to pay for repairs and shit. Thanks for all the tips and advice. I hope this has provid a fun topic for someone to dive into.

Good luck. Keep us posted!

[ewddd]

Just now, Ty2525 said:

 

Good luck. Keep us posted!

Will do.

[ewddd]

So my pick up date for my pc is Wednesday. They will call me if and when they find something wrong or need to ask me about something. Anyway I will keep you guys posted.

[ewddd]

Ok so the pc had some other problems. It was booting really slowly and also would shut off after 20secs after pressing the power button from a cold start.

 

 

Turns out it was the BIOS dying but I'm in luck my motherboard has a 2nd BIOS that the guy is switching over to. I'm getting a new mother board once this one is back.

 

 

As for the og problem well it turns out that install of Windows was 5 kinds of messed up. So the guy is going to put windows on it.