SSD might be dying

[Guest]

I have the assumtion that my SSD might be dying but I don't know for sure and maybe something different is wrong.

My problem is that sometimes Windows 10 won't boot after starting the PC. Everything is normal on startup and even the logo with the spinning cirlce appears but when the login page should happen the monitor is just black. I have to restart multiple times and eventually Windows will load properly. Reinstalling Windows won't get rid of this.

I have the assumption it's my SSD cause it's an older one from 2011 (M4-CT064M4SSD2) but before I go and buy a new one I want to be sure it's not anything else causing this.
 

[moarILLEST]

This reddit thread seems to be pretty informative.
 

 

[NumLock21]

Download and run Crucial Executive Software. The program should tell you if your SSD is dying or not.

 

[Guest]

According to SSDLife my drive is still at 93% health. So if it's not the drive what could lead to Win10 not loading after startup? 

[moarILLEST]

44 minutes ago, Medicate said:

According to SSDLife my drive is still at 93% health. So if it's not the drive what could lead to Win10 not loading after startup? 

Have you recently reset you BIOS? Or changed any drivers? I would check to see if all your drivers are up to date.
I would need more information before really getting to know whats going on.
Are there any error codes after it reboots? Does it go to Blue Screen? Have you tried booting into Safe Mode / SM w/ networking? 
Check your RAM? Make sure no loose connections. Dust? Re-seat graphics cards? 
Basically atm I have no idea. BUT you can try a few of those and give any more information!  

[bcguru9384]

i wonder if windows trying to adopt the stupid kib mib method

bit byte is fine and is natively usable on pcb low level logic

 

1024×1024=1,048,576×1024=1,073,741,824(bits)÷8=134,217,728bytes

i hate it when people do the damn 1000 thing for their math as it is too easy to allow self to code that it your programs

 

take cpu

1.75ghz×1024=1792×1024=1835008×1024=1879048192÷8=234881024bytes/dwords÷8=29360128bytes/dwords per core

now replace my 1024 with 1000 and see the huge difference

[bcguru9384]

1byte=1dword=8bits

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, moarILLEST said:

Have you recently reset you BIOS? Or changed any drivers? I would check to see if all your drivers are up to date.
I would need more information before really getting to know whats going on.
Are there any error codes after it reboots? Does it go to Blue Screen? Have you tried booting into Safe Mode / SM w/ networking? 
Check your RAM? Make sure no loose connections. Dust? Re-seat graphics cards? 
Basically atm I have no idea. BUT you can try a few of those and give any more information!  

Yes but it I did it trying to fix this issue. It already happened before BIOS reset.
I can't remember any significant driver changes at the time it started happening.
Nvidia drivers are up to date.
No error codes or Blue Screen. Just a black screen after the Windows icon.
Booting in safe mode didnt work, the same black screen.
I saw no dust or loose connections.

[moarILLEST]

3 minutes ago, Medicate said:

Yes but it I did it trying to fix this issue. It already happened before BIOS reset.
I can't remember any significant driver changes at the time it started happening.
Nvidia drivers are up to date.
No error codes or Blue Screen. Just a black screen after the Windows icon.
Booting in safe mode didnt work, the same black screen.
I saw no dust or loose connections.

My next idea would be to remove the graphics card and plug the monitor straight into the mobo video output. Check your bios to see if you've changed anything. I cant imagine something causing it to not boot after the regular loading screen that doesn't do with the graphics card's lack of function. Basically remove the dedicated graphics and check if your onboard are working and if that solves the problem. If so, uninstall the drivers for the video card (windows likes to download the version it can find) and go to the manufacturers website and download the newest one. PSU doesn't sound weird does it? 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, moarILLEST said:

My next idea would be to remove the graphics card and plug the monitor straight into the mobo video output. Check your bios to see if you've changed anything. I cant imagine something causing it to not boot after the regular loading screen that doesn't do with the graphics card's lack of function. Basically remove the dedicated graphics and check if your onboard are working and if that solves the problem. If so, uninstall the drivers for the video card (windows likes to download the version it can find) and go to the manufacturers website and download the newest one. PSU doesn't sound weird does it? 

I don't have onboard graphics. PSU doesn't do any noises or smells. I just checked the nvidia site again and I have the latest drivers. 

A GPU problem sounds plausible. It's just that it sometimes boots normally, and sometimes not. It's inconsistent. It's weird.

[moarILLEST]

What CPU are you using? Do you have any other graphics cards on hand?

but you have also cleaned out every fan / radiator of dust, right?

[Guest]

17 hours ago, moarILLEST said:

What CPU are you using? Do you have any other graphics cards on hand?

but you have also cleaned out every fan / radiator of dust, right?

I have a Phenom II1090t.

It happened again, this time after a crash with BSOD and "KMode Exception Not Handled". Something new.
After multiple restart attempts and always failing to load the login screen I found my old 8600GT and the PC started with it on the first try. Immediately after that I threw in my gtx 760 again and the startup was normal again.