Question Dying 970 Evo Plus???

[itsthekorean]

Hello everyone,

I appear to be having an issue with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2tb NVME that I purchased August 2023. The issue that I am having is that, whenever I am playing a game like Overwatch or Warframe, the game will freeze and will not fully close. It will then require me to force shut down my computer for the drive to become usable again. Overwatch will also cause the enemies and teammates to become dots and I cannot use the HUD. I have sent the drive back to Samsung and they tested and said that the drive was perfectly fine. CrystalDiskInfo also said that the drive was healthy. I have also tried moving the slots the drive is in and to no avail. Any help would be appreciated

Specs:
Ryzen 7 3700x
MSI B550A-PRO
Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
Sabrent Rocket Q (boot drive in M.2_1)
Samsung 970 EVO plus 2tb (M.2_2)
Corsair RM850x

 

[boju]

What makes you think it's the drive and not something else?

 

[itsthekorean]

What makes you think it's the drive and not something else?

It has only happened on this drive. Everything in question works fine on my boot drive. I've tested with another drive and it worked fine. So I'm convinced it's the drive. But who knows. I could be incredibly wrong

 

[boju]

Hmm ok. Have you updated firmware for the 970 with Samsung magician? Try that and see if there's updated chipset driver available from Amd. Search b550 chipset driver and Amd should popup.

 

[itsthekorean]

Hmm ok. Have you updated firmware for the 970 with Samsung magician? Try that and see if there's updated chipset driver available from Amd. Search b550 chipset driver and Amd should popup.

I updated the firmware for the drive. So did samsung. I can try the chipset driver when I get home

 

[boju]

If it doesn't fix anything try switch ssds around to rule out second m2 slot. Should be able to switch them and continue/boot as normal.

 

[itsthekorean]

If it doesn't fix anything try switch ssds around to rule out second m2 slot. Should be able to switch them and continue/boot as normal.

Already tried that and it still happened

 

[boju]

Ok if chipset driver doesn't solve it can you return ssd for a replacement or something else?

 

[itsthekorean]

SOLVED: Drive works great now. It wasn't chipset or other drivers. But it was my old 14 yr old self being dumb when building my computer. ADDED one more PCIe Cable to GPU and now it works flawlessly

 

[boju]

So you had 1 8pin from psu to 8 + 6 to the card? Surprised that caused issues. It's recommended running seperate cables for some cards but 2070s isn't exactly power demanding and Rmx should have handled a single cable. Oh well, glad it worked out.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Glad itbworks but Aside from not adding all required PCIe cables (which I'm surprised didn't cause issues on other games). Makes no sense why that would fix it for the Samsung when the games according to earlier posts work fine on the boot drive.

Either way I wouldn't have suspected the drive to be bad. If anything the MB (had you not mentioned the GPU).

Well, unsolved mystery. You basically beat the game the way developers didn't intend.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Well, unsolved mystery. You basically beat the game the way developers didn't intend.

Because it was issue with graphics card not getting enough power from PSU.
It had nothing to do with storage.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Because it was issue with graphics card not getting enough power from PSU.
It had nothing to do with storage.

I know how to read. The connection between them is what makes no sense. The other m.2 worked fine and it wasn't a slot issue. MBs can only supply a finite amount of power to individual components (normal circumstances) and devices neededing more power than they are getting won't work correctly, not some ransom compoment like a very specific nvme drive