So for a while i have had 3 m.2 drives fail on me but not fail in the sense i cant use them. the problem is randomly the drive will cause most games i play to freeze for 5 seconds before returning to normal and then freeze again for 5 seconds after a minute and do this for a few minutes. suddenly the games will run fine for a good 30-60 minutes, then sudden start having freezing issues again for another 10-15 mins on and off before returning to normal again.
In event viewer i get mostly event id 154 failed due to hardware error (only get this message 2-3 times during a gaming session even if my game freezes 5-10 times with in the hour) and on one occasion i had the drive retired error. how chkdsk finds no error, sfc /scannow finds nothing and the smart status is fine and showing 98% healthy with 16000gb writes and 13000gb nand writes. quite small for a 6 month old drive. also the last 2 drives did the same thing after 6 months each.
Thinking this has been a motherboard issue for a good 2 years now has me worried. yet here i am with the same system with the same issues and almost excepted them having almost giving up.
So i did a little digging a realised only a few selected games was doing this for the last 2 years. i found out that any time my gpu went above 150-160 watts my system would freeze more so then before and would explain the random crashes. but why would my gpu power be effecting my ssd's?
Well after spending around 2 weeks trying to get to the bottom of what is causing this issue i took my entire pc apart (ball ache). Put everything back together and same issues in games and now odd random restarts at the desktop
Even re-installed windows and all drivers the whole set. nothing, nada and diddley squat. i was close to pulling my hair out. i had almost pulled the plug on gaming and decided on one last ditched effort to fix my issue.when i powered my pc on and played resident evil village (demanding with rtx) of course my system stutter and eventually crash/bsod without dump file. so i turned my attention to my psu. i changed my corsair custom cables for gpu and my games suddenly started working again
but i was still having issues with random bsods but without any stuttering like before. my corsair 24 pin atx cable was the only custom cable left and it turns out it had become damaged somehow just as my pci-e cables had. no physical damage. so i changed the cable around with the stock cable and all is fine. can't believe a psu cable could be faulty without any signs of damage. low and behold my system is way more snappier than ever. this has been a nearly 2 year struggle that re-occurred once in a while and finally it's all fixed.I have to hand it to my family and friends. they know be better than i thought. They have always said i have a lot of patience. I guess 2 years of this issue progressing worse each time i tried to fix it and still holding on for a miracle fix which i found 2 years later with the same system. I am one happy gamer right now
