Extremely strange long-term problem with 'new' PC..
4 replies, posted
Hey.
In April this year I bought a new PC from parts, and built it myself. These are the important specs:
• RAM: HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 2133MHz
• CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K
• Graphics: Sapphire Tri-X ATI R9 390X OC
• PSU: XFX 650w XTR Gold Fully Modular PSU
• SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
• HDD 1: Western Digital Blue 1TB
• HDD 2: Western Digital Blue 1TB
• HDD 3: Western Digital Green 3TB
• Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming PRO
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Since I bought it, there's been some strange problems, and I'm hoping someone might know what is causing it and maybe even how to fix it.
Every now and then, at least once but sometimes twice a day, I get a BSoD with either "UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION" or "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED", most of the time it's the former.
Most of the time when I start up my PC, it doesn't even get to post. I get a small underline in the bottom right corner and the PC freezes up before anything even happens. If I restart it several times it eventually works, but then it's another gamble - most of the time at this point I get a blue screen saying "[B]Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.[/B]". If my keyboard is awake, I can spam enter to try again and it works on the 4th or 5th time.
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/a78bbdddf37a60e66b0a605e88b80cfa.png[/img]
Disk 0 is my SSD, C:/ drive:
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/2d146be33a6d681193bd89f70d190592.png[/img]
When my PC freezes up, it slowly stops working (everything I click freezes) until the whole PC is frozen, and I have to restart - usually leading to what happens with the underline and requires at least several restarts to get working again.
Oh, and when Windows actually starts loading, it takes between 1 and 10 minutes - way too slow for a new SSD.
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/a4cee81e35d32b9ab2adbe9f1cd0b6fc.png[/img]
Any help would be appreciated. I've been tearing my hair out for months trying to figure this shit out.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
[B]Update:[/B]
I changed the cable / sata port that the SSD is connected to, same problems but it boots extremely fast now.
It's almost as if this PC is resisting anyone fixing it. If I try to reset the PC (but keep files) when it reboots it will show "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed.", and the only way to get past it is to reboot where windows tells you that nothing has changed and the reset was cancelled.. The error screen says winload.efi is inaccessible/corrupted and it has the error code "0xc0000225".
Windows updates is almost completely broken. I'm stuck on the base version of windows 10 and I've [I]never[/I] been able to update at all. If I download updates and restart to update it, the PC just restarts without ever updating anything.
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/8db6ada9e227a0b23bcc3997f44608b8.png[/img]
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/680fa4458b7d1915952dcfa983247877.png[/img]
I edited the group policies and reset them back to their defaults, but this still persists through several restarts. Defer upgrades is checked and greyed out permanently, so I'm never able to update.
This is a legit, paid version of Windows 10 pro.
[editline]16th November 2016[/editline]
Just tried disk cleanup..
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/8fff639c551589061833a7df688509ec.png[/img]
[B]Definitely[/B] something wrong here, I don't even have that much space in total.
Sorta might seem obvious, but the issue is most likely with your SSD. It sounds like a big enough problem that you might want to get a replacement on it, or format the SSD first maybe. I don't think you're gonna fix this while keeping your files. Back up anything important, format the SSD and try installing Windows again. If that fails, you definitely have something screwed up in hardware.
Remoe the SSD and install windows on one of your HDD''s. Check if that fixes anything.
Seems like your SSD is busted...any chance it's under warranty?
Also when you installed Windows in the first place, did you have all those drives plugged in? Windows sometimes shits itself and puts the bootloader on the mechanical. This could explain slow startups and it could definitely crash it if the HDD powers off due to power options.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.