The PC remains operational during the game but loses the SSD following a hard restart.
The PC remains operational during the game but loses the SSD following a hard restart.
Config:
CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k (Stock Speed)
Mobo: Biostar Z97x
Psu: Thermaltake Smart SE 630W
Ram: Avexir DDR3 16gb (4+4+8)
Cpu Cooler: Cryorig H5 (Universal probably)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 ti (Either from Galax or Zotac)
HDD: Toshiba 500 GB 7200 RPM
SSD: HP EX900 M.2 500 GB
* I didn't find any driver for this SSD in HP's website.
* Interface of the SSD is PCI-Express 3(8Gb/s) x4, NVMe 1.3
** While my mobo supports - M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x2 (10 Gb/s) - The M.2 slot supports M.2 Type 2242/2260/2280 SSD module.
* So even though the SSD can provide 2,100 MBps I can only get around 800+ MBps.
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Just a week ago, I lost my 7 years old 2 TB HDD. Bought a HP EX900 M.2 500 GB PCIe NVMe Internal SSD. I never used any kind of SSD before in this system. After setting up the SSD with a new Windows 10 I installed few necessary drivers and app I need. Which took me the whole day. Next day I installed Apex Legends, opened it, waited for a while to let it get done with rendering (shaders I think). Then, when I pressed continue to get in the lobby, the whole system crashed with a BSOD of ''unexpected store exception''. It restarted automatically after collecting 100% data.
I tried again, and this time maybe there wasn't any BSOD or was with a different code (Cant remember correctly). Then after restart I tried to find out what is wrong and figured out I forgot to update windows. Well, after that, the game was playable without any issue. But after two days in the middle of a match, the game froze and no keyboard command worked, so I pressed the restart button and the SSD just disappeared. Had to reinstall the SSD. It happened again, So I had to reinstall the SSD again and thought there is always something wrong with Apex,
Maybe my old mobo with a new SSD is unable to coup up with each other and stopped playing it. Though I had this kind of crashes with HDD, but was always able to close the process without a restart. Meanwhile, I played Cities Skylines without any issues. Maybe also need to check with an offline fps game. Anyway, Since I thought that of apex,
so I downloaded PUBG. It ran fine at the beginning, finished the training without any issue. After that, I started a quick match, and jumped solo somewhere in the map, was just aiming for a building and waiting for the parachute to auto open. And when that happened, the game froze. Though this time the mouse cursor popped up, and I was able to move if. But was unable to close the game or open task manager with any keyboard commands. Eventually the mouse also stopped working and after a while the system took a restart and the SSD got disappeared again. While in apex it never happens that quickly. Looks more like a natural game crash.
Any idea what's happening here? It's a pia to reinstall the SSD since I need to release the GPU, open a motherboard cover to get to the SSD. Can it be possible that SSD is getting too hot and kicks itself out of the system? I cant see the temp while gaming and the SSD is located under a lid, and it's running with a stupidly hot 4790k CPU. Though the cpu temp never crossed 60C while those things happened.
Ensure that your computer displays the accurate time and date during the POST process and in Windows settings after removing the 7+ year CMOS battery.