Regular freezes of the PC and boot problems, no idea the cause (SSD ?)

Shaldun

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Hi all,

Follow up to my problem in this thread.

After those problems, I contacted SanDisk for the SSD which told me to test it on another PC first. Went to a friend to do it and found no problem there, the SSD did pass all tests without any problems. The problems also kind of disappeared during a few weeks (and I could do the tests on the SSD without problem on my PC also).

But yesterday it reappeared : freezes during 10-20 seconds every minute or so then go back to normal (some periods it didn't do freezes and I could pass the tests for the SSD at this time). The freezes happened in games or outside of games (so even if not used intensively) and even for games on my HDD and not the SSD. Until it crashed totally. Then, a bacl screen message saying to select the proper boot device or to insert one. Managed to get out of this thanks to a BIOS reset but the constant freezes are still there (btw they're also there in safe mode).

So I need your help to at least figuring out the problem. I thought it was the SSD but considering it passes the tests perfectly when there's no freezes, I have doubts it's that. So no need to sent it back to SanDisk if it isn't the problem, would be time wasted for nothing. But I have no idea where it can come from.

EDIT : Don't know if i's important but the sound didn't necessarily freeze with the rest (sometimes it did, others not). Only the image (mouse doesn't move and all).
 
Solution
what version of windows are you on?

open command prompt with admin rights and type chkdsk C: /f and press enter
it will ask to run at start up, say Yes
restart PC and let it check drive - its scanning system files

Update motherboard drivers and/or BIOS as it could be them too. It is likely to be a driver
what version of windows are you on?

open command prompt with admin rights and type chkdsk C: /f and press enter
it will ask to run at start up, say Yes
restart PC and let it check drive - its scanning system files

Update motherboard drivers and/or BIOS as it could be them too. It is likely to be a driver
 
Solution


I'm on Windows 10, last version normally (auto-updates are enabled).

chkdsk doesn't work. Well it works but it doesn't detect something wrong and changes nothing to the problem. As I said, every sign seems to indicate the SSD is fine.

Updated the BIOS version but didn't change anything to the problem either. Will try the drivers of the motherboard tonight (didn't have time for it yesterday).