Question 100% disk usage on new build ?

[ItsPotatoTime]

I have just made built a new system and it worked perfectly fine, but after installing Valorant, the disk just ramped up to 100% constantly and it gave a BSOD (Critial Proccess Died) and then it deleted Windows
(ie It booted into the bios and there was no bootable drive found).

The SSDis a Kingston M.2 2TB , I have one on my own PC and I've never had issues like this. I installed other stuff and everything went well until I got to Valorant. That's when it just started dying. It has already deleted itself twice, I don't know what to do anymore.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

The ssd is an m.2 2tb kingston,
Kingston have a number of M.2 drive sunder it's portfolio, which one do you have? When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

I have just made a new system and it worked perfectly fine, but after installing Valorant, the disk just ramped up to 100% constantly and it gave a BSOD (Critial Proccess Died) and then it deleted windows (It booted into the bios and there was not a bootable drive found).
You state building a new system, did you migrate the OS drive from an older system? It's possible that the drive was on it's way out or was overheating.

 

[punkncat]

It would seem that you have a bad disk. Do you have an enclosure and/or another system you can run a scan on it from?

 

[ItsPotatoTime]

Alright
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x3d
CPU cooler: Arctic freezer 36
Motherboard: B550M K
Ram: 32GB Adata 3200Mhz
SSD/HDD: M.2 NV2 Kingston 2TB
GPU: RTX 2060 (I had an old one)
PSU: Seasonic B12 BC Series 850W (It's brand new)
Chassis: Darkflash 150 (i can't remember sorry, I am not near the pc)
OS: Windows 11 Pro
Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G3 24"

 

[ItsPotatoTime]

It would seem that you have a bad disk. Do you have an enclosure and/or another system you can run a scan on it from?

It's strange since everything is brand new. Though, it did work to install the updates, drivers and I even installed infinity nikki and ran it without issues. Only when I installed valorant, it started breaking

 

[punkncat]

Things come bad in box sometimes. Assuming that everything else is good and download from official site do you happen to have even a 2.5" SSD you could try on that new board?

 

[ItsPotatoTime]

Things come bad in box sometimes. Assuming that everything else is good and download from official site do you happen to have even a 2.5" SSD you could try on that new board?

I do not sadly, but it's still weird as I saw in task manager that riot is using even 900mbps on the disk, it works flawlessly until I install it.

 

[DaleH]

It's strange since everything is brand new. Though, it did work to install the updates, drivers and I even installed infinity nikki and ran it without issues. Only when I installed valorant, it started breaking

If this is the only software that creates problems, I would assume that it's likely related to the software and not hardware.

 

[DaleH]

I do not sadly, but it's still weird as I saw in task manager that riot is using even 900mbps on the disk, it works flawlessly until I install it.

what does performance monitor show as far as disk usage when you run valorant.

 

[DaleH]

what does performance monitor show as far as disk usage when you run valorant.

I just noticed that Valorant has a patch available yesterday - check that out.

 

[DaleH]

I just noticed that Valorant has a patch available yesterday - check that out.

The Valorant specs are found at https://playvalorant.com/en-us/specs/

 

[JayGau]

I read that Valorant has a very aggressive anti-cheat system that gets installed in parallel to the game and works at the kernel level, so inside the Windows core system. Maybe it gets crazy and breaks you Windows when you install it. Do you promise you are not cheating?

 

[ItsPotatoTime]

I read that Valorant has a very aggressive anti-cheat system that gets installed in parallel to the game and works at the kernel level, so inside the Windows core system. Maybe it gets crazy and breaks you Windows when you install it. Do you promise you are not cheating?

Yes, I'm not cheating. It's a new windows installation too so I don't have anything that can be flagged as a cheat

 

[popatim]

The 'deleting itself' issue has me thinking this is a fake drive. That is the kind of behavior they do when you try to put more on them than they actually have space for.

 

[ItsPotatoTime]

The 'deleting itself' issue has me thinking this is a fake drive. That is the kind of behavior they do when you try to put more on them than they actually have space for.

I did get it from the most reputable store in Romania, but I'll see if I can get a new one

 

[Misgar]

I did get it from the most reputable store in Romania, but I'll see if I can get a new one

If you suspect the claimed capacity of the drive is false and you don't mind wiping all the data, try h2testw. I've been using this program for years to check SD cards from eBay and it's only detected one obvious fake. Not had a problem with Amazon cards (so far).

H2testw writes 1GB files to the card or disk until full, then verifies the files. It reports true capacity and and data corruption. When finished, you delete all the 1GB files.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/h2testw.html

This is what you can expect with defective media.

This is what you might see if the drive capacity is misrepresented (fake). The screen shot below implies the true capacity is about 32GB, but the claimed capacity appears to be 120GB (127967MB).

From the slow read/write speeds in both tests, these examples are obviously not modern SSDs or high quality memory cards.

It's useful evidence if the retailer is reluctant to refund your money.