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Hey,
I don't post here much, so hope you don't mind me jumping in like this.
My PC has been acting up for the last two weeks. I was running Windows 8.1 and upgraded to Windows 10. Everything worked perfectly for a week, then suddenly the computer started turning itself on. I thought maybe I was just hitting restart instead of shutdown by mistake—you know, those tiny new buttons in Windows 10 and all that.
Then one day, when I booted up, I saw a checkdisk running on the C drive followed by a repair. The repair would hit 88% and then crash, forcing a reboot, which just triggered the checkdisk and repair loop all over again. My C drive is a 120 GB Samsung 840 SSD with only 2.7TB of data written to it.
I decided to test the SSD. I took it to a friend's place, and whenever they plugged it in, the computer wouldn't even boot. Back home, I installed Windows on a different drive, accessed the SSD, and tried running checkdisk to fix it. No luck. Windows reported a corrupted MFT and said it was unfixable. Eventually, I formatted the SSD and checked the S.M.A.R.T. data; everything looks fine, at 98% health.
I reinstalled Windows on the SSD, and it worked great for about 4 hours before the issues returned. If I shut down the PC, it actually shuts off, but then 5-10 seconds later it turns itself back on, hits the Windows logo, and shuts down again.
If I boot Windows from a standard hard drive, it runs checkdisk on the SSD and then boots normally. I have zero issues during boot or shutdown in that scenario.
Now I'm stuck in limbo.
Some people say the memory controller on the SSD is dying.
Others claim my power supply is shot.
I have no idea what to believe. It feels stupid to send an SSD in for warranty if the issue is this weird. I want to be certain before I take any next steps.
Specs: i5 4570S, 16GB RAM, Gigabyte board with H87 chipset, Samsung SSD, and two WD drives—a 750GB Black and a 2000GB Green. GPU is a Sapphire R7750. Power supply is a 550W Chieftec. Voltages in the BIOS look fine.
Thanks for the help.
I don't post here much, so hope you don't mind me jumping in like this.
My PC has been acting up for the last two weeks. I was running Windows 8.1 and upgraded to Windows 10. Everything worked perfectly for a week, then suddenly the computer started turning itself on. I thought maybe I was just hitting restart instead of shutdown by mistake—you know, those tiny new buttons in Windows 10 and all that.
Then one day, when I booted up, I saw a checkdisk running on the C drive followed by a repair. The repair would hit 88% and then crash, forcing a reboot, which just triggered the checkdisk and repair loop all over again. My C drive is a 120 GB Samsung 840 SSD with only 2.7TB of data written to it.
I decided to test the SSD. I took it to a friend's place, and whenever they plugged it in, the computer wouldn't even boot. Back home, I installed Windows on a different drive, accessed the SSD, and tried running checkdisk to fix it. No luck. Windows reported a corrupted MFT and said it was unfixable. Eventually, I formatted the SSD and checked the S.M.A.R.T. data; everything looks fine, at 98% health.
I reinstalled Windows on the SSD, and it worked great for about 4 hours before the issues returned. If I shut down the PC, it actually shuts off, but then 5-10 seconds later it turns itself back on, hits the Windows logo, and shuts down again.
If I boot Windows from a standard hard drive, it runs checkdisk on the SSD and then boots normally. I have zero issues during boot or shutdown in that scenario.
Now I'm stuck in limbo.
Some people say the memory controller on the SSD is dying.
Others claim my power supply is shot.
I have no idea what to believe. It feels stupid to send an SSD in for warranty if the issue is this weird. I want to be certain before I take any next steps.
Specs: i5 4570S, 16GB RAM, Gigabyte board with H87 chipset, Samsung SSD, and two WD drives—a 750GB Black and a 2000GB Green. GPU is a Sapphire R7750. Power supply is a 550W Chieftec. Voltages in the BIOS look fine.
Thanks for the help.