Question Windows files slowly getting more and more corrupted ?

[phantasticb]

I have a very strange problem.

A few months ago my PC running windows 10 decided to blue screen, and when I tried to reboot I could not boot into the system, safe mode, or anything that had to do with the normal windows desktop at all. The PC would not even go into automatic repair, instead endlessly boot-looping.

To solve this problem I fresh installed windows 7 and then re-upgraded to windows 10. To my dismay, after a couple weeks the PC began to show issues again: features breaking, file explorer becoming unstable, and files becoming corrupt. After a while, the PC became so corrupt that it got to the point that I could not boot once more.

To solve this problem AGAIN I had to reinstall windows 7 from an install disk once more. This time, I stayed on windows 7, and the computer is still usable to this day but regularly running chkdsk /c and sfc /scannow in cmd reveals that the system file structure slowly becomes more corrupt i.e. telling me that the bitmap volume is incorrect, eventually degrading to the point where it says it found corrupt files and on reboot it deletes them. I am sure that if I continuously skip these disk repair on reboot the computer will eventually degrade to the point where it won't boot anymore.

To get to the bottom of this I ran both SSD health checks and RAM health checks, but both come up clean. Running several malwarebytes and other antivirus scans came up clean as well. I am at a loss of what to do.

Is my SSD corrupted? Is my RAM bad? Could it be my PSU? CPU? Any ideas would be excellent.

I have also tried reformatting the whole SSD but that did nothing to prevent imminent system corruption.

SYSTEM INFORMATION:
FX-8320
M5A97 LE R2.0
POWERCOLOR R9 280
OCZ ARC100
G.SKILL ARES RAM, 4 X 2 GB

 

[kanewolf]

Did you run MEMTEST for your RAM? Are you trying to run your RAM at 1600 (or even higher)?

 

[phantasticb]

Did you run MEMTEST for your RAM? Are you trying to run your RAM at 1600 (or even higher)?

Yes, I have run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool several times over and every time it came up clean when I checked the results in Windows Event Viewer. I will check if I am running my RAM at the incorrect frequency.

EDIT: Upon checking I saw that everything was set to auto from the last time I was in there.

 

[kanewolf]

When I said MEMTEST, I was referring to a specific tool -- http://www.memtest86.com/ It will create a standalone bootable device. Run it for 24 hours. If you have no errors, then your memory is not your problem.

 

[phantasticb]

When I said MEMTEST, I was referring to a specific tool -- http://www.memtest86.com/ It will create a standalone bootable device. Run it for 24 hours. If you have no errors, then your memory is not your problem.

My apologies for the misunderstanding and thanks for the help so far.

I set up the memtest boot disk and I'm letting it run. It should be on its 8th pass by tomorrow morning. It's on the 5th pass right now with no errors, so if I wake up tomorrow morning and by its 8th pass (which will be about 24 hours) without any errors, what should I do to determine what is causing the corruption problems?

If it does detect errors, should I buy new RAM?

 

[kanewolf]

IF memtest is clean for 24 hours, then you have a pretty good, independent, test of your basic hardware (CPU, memory, motherboard).

I would get the diagnostic tools from the SSD vendor and verify the disk with those.

 

[phantasticb]

IF memtest is clean for 24 hours, then you have a pretty good, independent, test of your basic hardware (CPU, memory, motherboard).

I would get the diagnostic tools from the SSD vendor and verify the disk with those.

Thanks for the quick reply! I've already done that using OCZs firmware update and disk repair/monitoring tool, and it comes out clean. Using 3rd party software to check the health of my disk nets the same result: 97% health, 8 years expected lifetime. Is there any other procedure I can do to determine whats wrong? What do I do if all tests show that nothing is wrong with my drive or the RAM?

UPDATE: Memtest came in clean. I woke up this morning with 10 passes complete and well over 24 hours. Running chkdsk /c and sfc /scannow brings these results, if it helps at all. Is it possible that my SSD is the problem even though it is reportedly fine?

 

[aaros]

I know this is ancient by now, but I'm experiencing the exact same issue currently so I was wondering whether you ever found a solution for it?

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[SkyNetRising]

Most likely old/failing SSD was to blame here.
Diagnose your SSD with manufacturer specific SSD tool.
Get a new SSD.