Question NVMe SSD might be causing BSODs and other issues ?

[1iNTOX]

Hello all,

following problems occur, which i suspect are caused by the NVMe SSD (i could be very wrong though):
my PC usually crashes in the morning after booting it up the first time each day, happens after its been running around 10-15minutes and about 2-3 times, after that it mostly runs fine the rest of the day - happens anytime and not just under high load. (other than this, i have no clue on how to reproduce this crash)

the crashes are not immediate and are rather slow: the taskbar will stop working first (audio is still being played), then everything but my cursor will freeze, followed by a BSOD
the BSODs can quite vary, sometimes CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, Kernel Data Inpage Error and even nvlddmkm.sys (Nvidia related) once. No Minidump files are generated.

After booting back up, the windows drive (NVMe) is not recognized (throws me into bios) and I have to reboot about 2-3 times until the drive is actually recognized.

having had this problem quite a long time i decided to wipe the NVMe and do a clean windows reinstall, everything was working fine for 2 weeks and now the crashes have started again.

my specs are the following:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x
• GPU: RTX 3060 12GB EVGA
• PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500W 230V
• Mainboard: Asrock B450 Pro4
• RAM: 4x 8GB G.Skill Aegis DDR4-3000 (running at 2933 MHz)
• NVMe: Crucial P2 1TB (windows drive)
• other drives: Seagate HDD 2TB, Intenso SSD 240GB

my plan was to buy a new nvme, hoping it would fix the problem.

 

[DSzymborski]

First things first: you're running modern equipment, including an RTX 3060, on one of the worst quality PSUs ever sold by a well-known company, a rebranded garbage unit from 20 years ago. The power delivery mess in this PC really needs to be dealt with before any further diagnosis can have value.

 

[MWink64]

Have you checked the SMART attributes of the drive with something like CrystalDiskInfo? My initial inclination would be to look at the PSU and motherboard first.

 

[1iNTOX]

First things first: you're running modern equipment, including an RTX 3060, on one of the worst quality PSUs ever sold by a well-known company, a rebranded garbage unit from 20 years ago. The power delivery mess in this PC really needs to be dealt with before any further diagnosis can have value.

just saw the PSU Tier List and my god, its literally F tier lol. wish I knew this when I first bought it (~4-5yrs ago?)
Been thinking about getting a bequiet Pure Power 11 700W.

 

[1iNTOX]

Have you checked the SMART attributes of the drive with something like CrystalDiskInfo? My initial inclination would be to look at the PSU and motherboard first.

Thank you for your reply!
SMART and CrystalDiskInfo show all is fine, but I think I figured out some of the problem.
The crash happens whenever the nvme drive goes to 100% (in taskmanager). happened to me a lot when i tried to play escape from tarkov and also when running benchmarks in crucial storage executive. can this be psu related?

currently installing windows on my other SSD to see if the problem is solved. glad to say the NVMe drive is still under warranty