New PC, crapped out.

Sep 1, 2025, 5:44 PM

Well, not really. But one of the hardest problems ever to diagnose. TFL may appreciate this.

So the very first day I built this new PC, I had errors transferring files back from the NAS. No big deal, Google said it's a permissions thing with the NAS only impacting big files. Ok.

Anyway, started having issues installing and uninstalling programs. Again, research said permissions in Windows, or a bad windows update.

Then I'd get BSOD's, lasting maybe 2 seconds max, not long enough to get a pic of the error code. Event viewer kept having errors in secure boot. Tried to change those settings, still issues.

Final straw was just random reboots, out of nowhere. I'd scanned the memory in Windows memory scan, scanned the M2 SSD. Smart scan said fine. Windows said memory weas fine. PSU was fine, no voltage issues. Just random errors installing something, uninstalling something, or just random reboots. Latest Windows update didn't seem to be the cause.

So I puled one of the 2 ram sticks. Same issue. Pulled the other, FIXED!!! Or so I thought. Then it started again. DDR5 ram was on the QVL for the motherboard and CPU. Did a scan and several errors were found on the SSD, then fixed. Problems continued.

I'm down to ram or SSD. Could bad ram be causing SSD errors? Did an integrity check on my windows image files, and they were damaged, and couldn't be repaired. Finally tried to reinstall Windows, and it failed, couldn't even reinstall.

So.....throwing hands in the air, I bought two new DDR5 sticks:
Kingston Fury Beast Black 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MT/s DDR5 CL30 Desktop Memory

AND.....a new 5th gen M2 SSD:
WD_BLACK 2TB SN8100 NVMe SSD

Threw both in, did a clean install of Windows 11 Pro, and NO ISSUES AT ALL. I'm thinking the DDR5 ram was bad, and it was throwing the data errors to the SSD, and probably had been since day 1. With all the bad data thrown to the SSD over time, I decided to get a new one of those as well, as it was very much corrupted, 200 times over.

NOW, to replace the SSD, I had to open the case, unplug and label the HDD sata cables in my spanned (3 drives)storage array (they have to be plugged in exactly the same way to maintain integrity). Then had to remove the drive bay and those drives to get the GPU out. The removed GPU, got access to the M2 drive, replaced it, added the GPU back, inserted the HDD's back, then for the ram had to remove one fan from the CPU cooler (easy) and that was all.

Runs BETTER than new.

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When folks say, "You'll regret that in the morning", I just sleep until noon, because I'm a problem solver.

New WD SSD is blazing fast.

I would have just crapped on the PC myself...

Absolutely nothing, diagnostic, could tell me a thing.

Driver corruption. That'd be my guess.

Happens to everyone that builds and tinkers. Not me of course (cough cough)...
We implement ppm, firmwares for firmwares, then go about drivers from this place to that place. Stretch legs and then dial back because we aren't envelope pushers.
It's amazing how brand new drivers hold spots and build of each other to point if corruption.

Same here. I got a few bad restarts and everything looked perfect on paper. Bought new ssd that had some ridiculous speed I thought would never hit but after a no bloatware install and some bench/testing programs then crystaldisk showing over 14.5gbs.

For about a week my benches for frame per second in assasins creed shadows (my good to due to intensive rt, raster, dynamic, high vram, etc... was not topping 70 per second. Did erything. Bought new ssd and reinstalled. Not only got back to avg 150fps but hitting 200 highs and 120 lows. That crazy.

Also help me out. Im putting a 5090 in this beech next Monday. If im at 150 avg in 5080 then what u think the 5090 do?

Glad ur still on it.

Oh yeah. I still have the cooler and ram. Id think u would be very happy with it. Atleast run some dual rank at 32x2. Ur controller would eat it up. Its literally just sitting collecting dust. I've got it in original packaging so not really dust but u get it.

And I do enjoy guys like us overcoming the mega corps to make out machines not just better but incredibly better. Mad respect brother!

New PC, crapped out.

New WD SSD is blazing fast.

I would have just crapped on the PC myself...

Absolutely nothing, diagnostic, could tell me a thing.

Driver corruption. That'd be my guess.

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