Hello,
The issue began a few days after I replaced my failing Hdd with an Ssd.
Since the Hdd had a few crashes and the installation of Windows was damaged, I did a clean install and copied important files selectively, so that no damaged files were on the new drive.
I still had it connected at that point.
After a few days I had extreme problems with slowdown, so that within seconds the PC went from normal performance to complete halt, with the mouse and sound sometimes working, sometimes not, but the system would never respond.
I had to force power off my system a few times, since it was completely unresponsive.
I then removed my HDD, since I figured that some process ran automatically and somehow killed my performance.
That seemed to be good for a few days, until it came back, I don't know if this is related or not.
After a few hours of uptime the PC would just slow down, very noticeably, but with patience it could still shutdown.
I noticed that shortly before the slowdown occurred, the SSD's queue length spiked up to several thousand, I also noticed that the active time was 100%, at all times. Even when barely anything is using the SSD.
I also noticed some relation to chrome, as when I had chrome open, it nearly instantly froze my PC. Or it didn't shut down after I initiated shutdown, I waited for several hours before force powering off, with no change to what was displayed on the shutdown screen.
At this time, a new issue came up, after every shutdown, my POST screen wouldn't show my SSD, until I powered my PC without connected power, and the BIOS reset.
Then it would show my SSD, but power down again on the POST screen.
When it did that it started up again, and booted windows.
So I did a fresh install of chrome, and the problem persisted.
As long as I am not using chrome, it seems to work, I thought, as I ran into no problems after a few days without chrome.
Then, whilst typing this on my PC, in opera, the PC just froze up. Mouse was still reacting, and windows told me that Opera and the taskbar were unresponsive, but it didn't close them.
It again doesn't recognize my SSD.
I am at the end of what I could try and think of:
Chkdsk, apparently no errors.
Sfc, no errors.
Memtest tells me that ram is fine.
Samsung magician and smart are good.
BIOS Firmware Update didn't do anything.
System:
OS: Windows server 2016 datacenter.
SSD: Samsung 840Pro
MB: B85M-E45
CPU: I5-4590
RAM: 1600MHz 16GB
GPU: GTX 1050 Ti
Between all these issues were myriads of other issues, like chkdsk boot loops etc.
If anyone could help me I would be very grateful
-Anton
The issue began a few days after I replaced my failing Hdd with an Ssd.
Since the Hdd had a few crashes and the installation of Windows was damaged, I did a clean install and copied important files selectively, so that no damaged files were on the new drive.
I still had it connected at that point.
After a few days I had extreme problems with slowdown, so that within seconds the PC went from normal performance to complete halt, with the mouse and sound sometimes working, sometimes not, but the system would never respond.
I had to force power off my system a few times, since it was completely unresponsive.
I then removed my HDD, since I figured that some process ran automatically and somehow killed my performance.
That seemed to be good for a few days, until it came back, I don't know if this is related or not.
After a few hours of uptime the PC would just slow down, very noticeably, but with patience it could still shutdown.
I noticed that shortly before the slowdown occurred, the SSD's queue length spiked up to several thousand, I also noticed that the active time was 100%, at all times. Even when barely anything is using the SSD.
I also noticed some relation to chrome, as when I had chrome open, it nearly instantly froze my PC. Or it didn't shut down after I initiated shutdown, I waited for several hours before force powering off, with no change to what was displayed on the shutdown screen.
At this time, a new issue came up, after every shutdown, my POST screen wouldn't show my SSD, until I powered my PC without connected power, and the BIOS reset.
Then it would show my SSD, but power down again on the POST screen.
When it did that it started up again, and booted windows.
So I did a fresh install of chrome, and the problem persisted.
As long as I am not using chrome, it seems to work, I thought, as I ran into no problems after a few days without chrome.
Then, whilst typing this on my PC, in opera, the PC just froze up. Mouse was still reacting, and windows told me that Opera and the taskbar were unresponsive, but it didn't close them.
It again doesn't recognize my SSD.
I am at the end of what I could try and think of:
Chkdsk, apparently no errors.
Sfc, no errors.
Memtest tells me that ram is fine.
Samsung magician and smart are good.
BIOS Firmware Update didn't do anything.
System:
OS: Windows server 2016 datacenter.
SSD: Samsung 840Pro
MB: B85M-E45
CPU: I5-4590
RAM: 1600MHz 16GB
GPU: GTX 1050 Ti
Between all these issues were myriads of other issues, like chkdsk boot loops etc.
If anyone could help me I would be very grateful
-Anton