Hello. I have a somewhat odd problem and honestly I ran out of ideas at this point.
The problem: Yesterday when booting up PC I suddenly got a BSOD - Unmountable Boot Volume. The PC rebooted itself and then just booted normally. The BSOD was 100% reproducible - it would always BSOD at first boot (from a shut down PC) but when it'd restart itself it would work just fine. I also noticed my PC got a lot slower at that point. I googled around and the first step was to update Windows. After doing that (I think, or maybe it was before?) I'd get another BSOD at startup - Critical Process Died. Then at some point I'd get yet another BSOD - this was related to a driver regarding Gigabyte's AORUS, so I just got rid of it and since then I had no more BSODs. However I've noticed the following things:
Before all those events I haven't really installed anything or changed anything that could possibly trigger it. It started happening out of the sudden.
What I've tried so far (hopefully a complete list, since there's been a plenty of stuff):
My specs:
I'm running out of ideas at this point. The only thing left that I can think of is that either the RAMs are busted (which I find rather unlikely, because why would the affect SSD's R/W speeds?) or the Motherboard, which might just be on it's way out because of age.
Sidenote: about a week ago, when I was playing Forza Horizon 5, it would suddenly crash and I'd get weird artifacts on the desktop. After a reboot it went away. It crashed maybe once again since then but no artifacts. I have cleaned the internals of my PC and since then for around a week there have been no issues at all. Could it be somehow connected?
The problem: Yesterday when booting up PC I suddenly got a BSOD - Unmountable Boot Volume. The PC rebooted itself and then just booted normally. The BSOD was 100% reproducible - it would always BSOD at first boot (from a shut down PC) but when it'd restart itself it would work just fine. I also noticed my PC got a lot slower at that point. I googled around and the first step was to update Windows. After doing that (I think, or maybe it was before?) I'd get another BSOD at startup - Critical Process Died. Then at some point I'd get yet another BSOD - this was related to a driver regarding Gigabyte's AORUS, so I just got rid of it and since then I had no more BSODs. However I've noticed the following things:
- PC is a lot slower,
- the sound on videos (on YT for example) sometimes gets slight stutters (the buzzing kind)
- takes very long to boot - first it shows the BIOS splash screen (relatively quickly since pressing POWER), then it takes a while to load windows and goes blank with the Windows login chime, and then after a few seconds the login screen shows up. It all takes far longer than it did a few days ago.
- when shutting down, after the Windows has shut down, the PC still runs for a while and then it turns off. This has not happened before.
- having benchmarked my SSD (which I'm running Windows on) I've noticed that it's running at half the speed it should. I can't testify if it's been running at full speed before though, but considering the slow down I think it may have. It's a SATA SSD (Crucial MX500 to be exact),
- tried installing Intel's Network driver but it wouldn't let me since it'd say the installer is not responding,
- similarly tried installing Realtek's HD Audio driver but it would get stuck at the very beginning of the installation bar
Before all those events I haven't really installed anything or changed anything that could possibly trigger it. It started happening out of the sudden.
What I've tried so far (hopefully a complete list, since there's been a plenty of stuff):
- SFC - no problems,
- DISM - no problems,
- Windows Troubleshooter - no problems,
- updated BIOS,
- updated Chipset drives,
- booted into Safe Mode - didn't help the slowdowns, but it actually made the PC shut down and turn off right away,
- the SATA cable seemed wobbly so I swapped it into another port (I have 6 of those on my motherboard) but it didn't help
- bought a new SATA cable but that also didn't help
- swapped SATA cables with a HDD I'm using along that SSD but that didn't help either
- tried running PC only from my Integrated Intel Graphics but that changed nothing
- plugged and tested another SSD, and again - the speeds seemed to be about half of what it was designed (or well, far lower than they should be for an SSD)
- unplugged unneeded USB devices - no change
- checked the Power settings to have no hibernations or sleep or anything like that
- checked the BIOS settings for anything out of the ordinary
- checked the temperatures of SSD, HDD, CPU and GPU and they seem in order
- the speeds (clocks?) on CPU and GPU are within a norm
- SMART doesn't show any errors with the SSD
- however an extensive CHKDSK showed an error which it was unable to fix
- checked for suspicious reports in the Event Viewer but aside from those BSODs from before there were no critical errors, only a few alerts, however it was nothing new, when looking at the dates. Just stuff that has been appearing frequently since forever.
My specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i5 9600k (bought in 2018)
- GPU: RTX 3080 Gigabyte Gaming OC (bought in 2021)
- Corsair 750W PSU (bought in 2020)
- Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus (bought in 2018)
- RAM: 2x Kingston KHX3000c15D4 8GB
- SSD: Crucial MX500 (bought in 2019)
- HDD: Toshiba HDWD120 (bought in 2021)
I'm running out of ideas at this point. The only thing left that I can think of is that either the RAMs are busted (which I find rather unlikely, because why would the affect SSD's R/W speeds?) or the Motherboard, which might just be on it's way out because of age.
Sidenote: about a week ago, when I was playing Forza Horizon 5, it would suddenly crash and I'd get weird artifacts on the desktop. After a reboot it went away. It crashed maybe once again since then but no artifacts. I have cleaned the internals of my PC and since then for around a week there have been no issues at all. Could it be somehow connected?
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