Question SSD causing BSODs and crashes?

[Gundwane]

Hi everyone.

I'm having some trouble with some crashes, and I think it might be the SSD, but I do not have much experience dealing with SSDs errors so... better ask the ones who knows.
Everything started with a BSOD while playing a game on Windows (I think it was a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error). After that, laptop won't even boot. I honestly thought it was that my GPU died, but knowing that It could be also one of the drives, I removed the SSD where I have Windows installed and my laptop started booting again.
So...everything pointed to that SSD. I tried re-installing Windows and, while extracting some files, it failed again and stopped booting. The BSODs that I remember are CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and Kernel Data Inpage Error, but I saw like 5 of them.

I got several BSODs by now, re-installed Windows a couple of times, and it keeps crashing randomly. It could be also RAM or Motherboard, but I find with weird that while using Debian installed on the HDD or using Live distros I have no problems at all.
What I've tried:

• Re-install Windows several times
• Delete all partitions and recreate them
• Run CristalDiskInfo (Got a "Good" with 95%)
• Run AOMEI to test disk surface. Windows crashed at some point. Tried this at least 3 times.
• Run Badblock on Linux (located in HDD). It found many bad sectors, and I guess it couldn't repair them because I re-ran the scan and I got the same amount of bad sectors.

What I'm trying right now: I installed Linux to see what happens. I don't know what else to do, honestly.

My specs (Laptop Lenovo y720):

• 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7-7700HQ
• 16GB DDR4 RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
• HDD Samsung 1tb
• SSD NVMe MSI Spatium M370 (Supposedly, the faulty one)
  
  It irritates me that I have only been using it for a year and a half. It's fairly new.
  What do you think? Should I keep trying, or it's time to get a new one?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Re-install Windows several times
Where did you source the installer for the OS from? Did you install the OS in an offline mode? As for your laptop, can you stay within your BIOS indefinitely?

HDD Samsung 1tb
+
MSI Spatium M370 (Supposedly, the faulty one)
Are you installing the OS while both drives are hooked up to the laptop? If so, you remove the HDD from your laptop, then format your SSD, then reinstall the OS(after recreating it) in offline mode. Once OS install is complete, manually install all the latest drivers relevant to your laptop, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

You forgot to mention what OS you're on.

 

[Gundwane]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Re-install Windows several times
Where did you source the installer for the OS from? Did you install the OS in an offline mode? As for your laptop, can you stay within your BIOS indefinitely?

HDD Samsung 1tb
+
MSI Spatium M370 (Supposedly, the faulty one)
Are you installing the OS while both drives are hooked up to the laptop? If so, you remove the HDD from your laptop, then format your SSD, then reinstall the OS(after recreating it) in offline mode. Once OS install is complete, manually install all the latest drivers relevant to your laptop, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

You forgot to mention what OS you're on.

Where did you source the installer for the OS from? Did you install the OS in an offline mode?
From an ISO Image on a USB stick. I guess that's the offline installer.

As for your laptop, can you stay within your BIOS indefinitely?
It seems I can. I stayed in the BIOS for hours this morning.

Are you installing the OS while both drives are hooked up to the laptop? If so, you remove the HDD from your laptop, then format your SSD, then reinstall the OS(after recreating it) in offline mode.
Wasn't able to do this. The Windows installer recognizes the disk, but says "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one".
I didn't fully understand what happened but, from what I read, that can happen when you have peripherals connected. I guess it was the USB stick, so I copied all the installation files into a partition and booted from there.
After that I ran the installation, but it asks for an internet connection. Don't know why, since are all the files from the ISO image. I don't have any LAN cable at hand right now so...I guess I'll try something else tomorrow.

You forgot to mention what OS you're on.
I'm writing this from a Debian Linux on my HDD, but it's Windows 10 the OS that it's giving me trouble on the SSD. I also installed Linux on the SSD to see what happens, but I deleted it when installing Win with the HDD unplugged.

I wish I had another laptop with a NVMe slot to test the SSD and find out for sure if it's broken or not : (