Freezes/Crashes under heavy load with SSD only

Jraft

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Mar 19, 2016
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Hello all,

Just bought an Acer Aspire Nitro 592G Black Edition laptop. I already had an M.2 Crucial MX200 SSD, which I installed in the laptop as soon as I got it home. I've been having freezing issues when playing games, and at first I thought it was a heat related issue, as I've seen some info online about these laptops having overheating issues.

After many, many different testing scenarios and benchmarks, I noticed that the freezes were occurring well under the temp limits. Ive had one happen as low as 79C for CPU and GPU temps.
Thermal throttling was not even kicking in at these low temperatures, so i started to become a bit skeptical that it was a purely heat issue.

Anyway, today I removed the Crucial SSD I had installed, and reinstalled windows 10 on the original HDD. I ran furmark on the GPU stress, with the CPU stress running as well, and it ran for 2 hours with no freezes with temps at the high 80's. Thermal throttling seemed to be doing its job looking at the graph.

I threw the SSD back in and ran the same test with furmark, and it froze after 4 minutes...

So it seems the SSD is what is causing these freezes.. Any ideas what could be going on there? I have not tried completely reinstalling windows on the SSD, but maybe its worth trying?
It is not located near enough to the heat sinks that I would think it is getting any sort of heat issues.

Any ideas would be excellent. Thanks