Random BSODs, SSD dying?

[IHaveNoIdea]

Hello!

 

Lately I've been encountering a lot of random BSODs, when on desktop, when gaming, when browsing, etc.

There's a few various errors, one of them is "0xc000021a" and the other one I remember is "KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR".

 

From my research, those would suggest a failing drive.

 

Things I tried:

- running "sfc /scannow" - didn't find issues

- running "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image Restorehealth" - didn't find issues

- running "chkdsk - every time I'd run this it would have something to fix

- checked SSD health with CrystalDiskInfo - says "95% Good"

 

Other info:

- usually programs freeze before the BSOD occurs, sometimes only the focused window, it's weird

- there's no any minidump files

- SSD is a Crucial P1 1TB (around 2 yrs old)

- OS is Windows 11 (installed few months ago)

 

Ironically, the PC crashed once again while I was writing this.

[Motifator]

P1 ain't the most reliable drive but do check with their own suite:

https://www.crucial.com/support/storage-executive

[tkitch]

Also try out:  CrystalDiskInfo

 

it will report a lot about drive health

[IHaveNoIdea]

@Motifator @tkitch Attaching screenshots.

 

 

 

[Motifator]

Can you by any chance swap out the OS drive with another SSD and see if you get the same shutdowns?

[IHaveNoIdea]

4 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Can you by any chance swap out the OS drive with another SSD and see if you get the same shutdowns?

 

Don't have any spare SSDs laying around but I could clone the drive to a hard disk.

 

I wonder how long I'll need to wait for it to crash again though, like yesterday it ran around 8 hours without problems. Today it already crashed 3 times in the span of 3 hours. Very unpredictable.

[Motifator]

Cloning SSD to HDD could just introduce other issues, as HDDs and SSDs aren't neither aligned to the same data kilobyte factor, not cloning directly from different drives, especially SSD / HDD is a good idea over all.

Recommend fresh install to HDD and a some trying to make it crash by loading up the PC.

[IHaveNoIdea]

6 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Cloning SSD to HDD could just introduce other issues, as HDDs and SSDs aren't neither aligned to the same data kilobyte factor, not cloning directly from different drives, especially SSD / HDD is a good idea over all.

Recommend fresh install to HDD and a some trying to make it crash by loading up the PC.

 

Think it's worth it to do a fresh install to the SSD instead, since all the health reports seem fine?

[Motifator]

Might be, if you can ready up your backups, sure.

[191x7]

If chkdsk finds issues, you might be having problems with the drive or your RAM.

Check using chkdsk c: /f /x /r

And check your RAM using Memtest86+

[porina]

2 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

If chkdsk finds issues, you might be having problems with the drive or your RAM.

Agreed. Posts so far don't give any evidence of drive going wobbly, so to me that points towards other instabilities. Agree with checking ram (or alternatively, turn off XMP if it is on).

 

@IHaveNoIdeaWhat is the rest of the system?

 

[IHaveNoIdea]

I will do the memtest since I do have XMP on. My RAM isn't the most performant kit ever so it could as well be that.

 

Full specs: Ryzen 4650G, RX 6700XT, Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz 2x8GB, Gigabyte B450 S2H.

[IHaveNoIdea]

@191x7 here's chkdsk, seems like there's a lot of problems?

 

I ran it few times before already and it didn't help though.

[tkitch]

well, random bluescreens can introduce drive data problems that CHKDSK will fix, and not mean it's a problem with the drive itself.

Def try memtest86 next.  Do you have XMP turned on?  (We've seen corsair sticks on work with default XMP more than a few times.)  

[IHaveNoIdea]

Will put memtest on tonight.

 

I'n the meantime here are some more error codes I got when enabling debug info (can't remember how it's called) in registry.

 

0xFFFFB48C4C202760

0xFFFFFFFFC0000006

0x00007FF80993505E 0x00000087381BE2C0

[IHaveNoIdea]

On 9/12/2022 at 4:06 PM, tkitch said:

well, random bluescreens can introduce drive data problems that CHKDSK will fix, and not mean it's a problem with the drive itself.

Def try memtest86 next.  Do you have XMP turned on?  (We've seen corsair sticks on work with default XMP more than a few times.)  

 

I ran the memtest86, with XMP disabled. It took around 2 and a half hours. All tests passed. 0 errors.

 

I tried using the system with XMP disabled as well. I ran sfc /scannow after disabling it and there were some files to fix, but in the end I continued getting BSODs again.

 

Edit: no errors on memtest with overclocked RAM either.

[tkitch]

okay, so it's not a RAM issue, that's good.

 

Hmmm, backup any data you need to save and try a reinstall of Win10 or 11?  See what that does?

 

Unless you can bum a drive off a friend to try out.

[IHaveNoIdea]

Freshly installed Windows on the same drive, we'll see how it goes now.

[IHaveNoIdea]

@tkitch same shit happening again, so SSD it is?

[tkitch]

1 minute ago, IHaveNoIdea said:

@tkitch same shit happening again, so SSD it is?

either SSD, or a bad drive controller on the mobo.  one of the two.

 

[Motifator]

19 minutes ago, tkitch said:

either SSD, or a bad drive controller on the mobo.  one of the two.

 

Extremely doubt on the latter on anything modern, it's probably the drive itself as Windows even automatically downloads drive controller drivers.

[IHaveNoIdea]

Got a new M.2 and been using it for a while now with no issues. Hope it stays that way.