Question Downloading games causes SSD to go 100% and disappear from Task Manager Performance Tab

[zeekzeeky]

Hello all,

I kinda have this weird issue now (cause I Googled my issue and no one had encountered this before) where I was downloading a game on Origin and after 30 secs of download, the SSD will go to 100%, and the HDD activity LED on my casing will light up without blinking. Besides that, that SSD (together with 2 other SSDs in my system) will disappear from my Task Manager's performance tab. Once this happens, the game's download speed will drop to 0 and it just stays there.

I tried switching on the Disk Management but it just won't load. I will need to do a hard reset as normal restarting won't cut it.

Things that I have tried:

1. Scanning the SDD using HDTune. All is good there.
2. Swap out to a new SATA Cable
3. Reformatting Windows 10

Here is my computer's specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with stock cooler
• MOBO: Asus B450 Tomahawk
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB
• SSD: Samsung EVO 850 256GB

Corsair 256GB
Plextor 128GB

• HDD: WD Blue 1TB
• Seasonic 750W Gold

Could anyone please explain why is this happening? Thank you so much

 

[Math Geek]

have you tried downloading to the hdd? this will let you know if it is the ssd itself or some other problem. that's where i'd start.

try the other 2 drives and see if it happens still. if not, then you know something is wrong with that ssd. everything has a warranty for a reason. problems do happen.