- Oct 20, 2021
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So I have an ASUS TUF FX505DT laptop and I recently upgraded it to have an extra 1TB SATA SSD and 8 GB of extra RAM. Now I'm not sure if this upgrade is the cause for the issue or if it's just coincidence, but lately I've noticed that I've been getting a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR BSOD whenever I try to read/write too much to the original SSD that it came with, a 500GB NVMe M.2 PCIe.
I noticed it got a BSOD when I tried running CrystalDiskMark to see its speeds, when I tried to move a fairly large folder from it to my new SATA SSD, and when I was trying to download a fairly large game into it as well. I'm still not actually certain if this is what's causing it, but it's also been the recurring element in these events. I want to clarify that while I did get one BSOD when I first upgraded my machine, I did not get any more for several weeks until I started trying to do big things with my original SSD (moving large folders around, etc.) Recently I did another test where I once again transferred a fairly large folder from my SATA to the M.2 and noticed that at some point the transfer speed dropped to 0 MB/s before my laptop crashed and I once again got the WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR screen, so I'm starting to be fairly certain that the M.2 is the cause. There was also a few times when, after restarting from the BSOD, I would boot straight to BIOS and it would act as if it couldn't read Windows on my M.2 and it would take a while and a few more resets until it would boot normally.
From here I think that I have two possible solutions, either I just get a new M.2 altogether (overall fairly pricey) or I move my OS to the SATA and keep the M.2 as just a secondary drive. My question is, if the M.2 is just a secondary drive and doesn't have Windows on it, can errors coming from it still cause blue screens? And on that note, how much slower will my boot time/general use be if I put windows into the SATA?
Also, for some reason my laptop isn't generating any dump files whenever I crash. I'm not sure if it's due to a setting I may have configured wrong or because I'm per-emptively resetting my laptop once it hits the BSOD since the percentage value never seems to go up despite how long I wait.
Laptop Specs:
I noticed it got a BSOD when I tried running CrystalDiskMark to see its speeds, when I tried to move a fairly large folder from it to my new SATA SSD, and when I was trying to download a fairly large game into it as well. I'm still not actually certain if this is what's causing it, but it's also been the recurring element in these events. I want to clarify that while I did get one BSOD when I first upgraded my machine, I did not get any more for several weeks until I started trying to do big things with my original SSD (moving large folders around, etc.) Recently I did another test where I once again transferred a fairly large folder from my SATA to the M.2 and noticed that at some point the transfer speed dropped to 0 MB/s before my laptop crashed and I once again got the WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR screen, so I'm starting to be fairly certain that the M.2 is the cause. There was also a few times when, after restarting from the BSOD, I would boot straight to BIOS and it would act as if it couldn't read Windows on my M.2 and it would take a while and a few more resets until it would boot normally.
From here I think that I have two possible solutions, either I just get a new M.2 altogether (overall fairly pricey) or I move my OS to the SATA and keep the M.2 as just a secondary drive. My question is, if the M.2 is just a secondary drive and doesn't have Windows on it, can errors coming from it still cause blue screens? And on that note, how much slower will my boot time/general use be if I put windows into the SATA?
Also, for some reason my laptop isn't generating any dump files whenever I crash. I'm not sure if it's due to a setting I may have configured wrong or because I'm per-emptively resetting my laptop once it hits the BSOD since the percentage value never seems to go up despite how long I wait.
Laptop Specs:
- Model: ASUS TUF FX505DT
- OS: Windows 10
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz
- Storage: 500 GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD + 1 TB SATA SSD
- GPU: GTX 1650
- Memory: 8x2 GB, 2400 MHz
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