Hello All,
I built a PC for gaming a little over a year ago with the following specs:
Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD2500HHTZ 250GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid Cooling System
Windows 7 Pro
The SSD ran the OS and some software. The Raptor contained my Steam folder. The machine ran fine for about a year before starting to reboot during games - no BSOD, just black screen and reboots. I initially figured something was overheating, but I monitored CPU and GPU temps while running the games windowed and temps never seemed to go above 40C or so. I tried to view dump files, but none were being generated. The problem usually occured after the PC had been running a while. I tested the memory and found nothing. I was going to switch out the PSU with an older one over the Thanksgiving holiday, but another reboot yesterday and now the SSD is dead. Windows hangs during startup. It's visible to the BIOS and in Linux Mint (running from thumb drive), but I get an "Unable to mount location" error.
I guess my question is - could the SSD have been the problem all along or did the interrupted power problem cause the SSD to fail? I'm thinking of installing windows to the Raptor or an older HDD and running a few games to see if it still has the reboot problem with the SSD removed.
Any other suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks.
I built a PC for gaming a little over a year ago with the following specs:
Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD2500HHTZ 250GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid Cooling System
Windows 7 Pro
The SSD ran the OS and some software. The Raptor contained my Steam folder. The machine ran fine for about a year before starting to reboot during games - no BSOD, just black screen and reboots. I initially figured something was overheating, but I monitored CPU and GPU temps while running the games windowed and temps never seemed to go above 40C or so. I tried to view dump files, but none were being generated. The problem usually occured after the PC had been running a while. I tested the memory and found nothing. I was going to switch out the PSU with an older one over the Thanksgiving holiday, but another reboot yesterday and now the SSD is dead. Windows hangs during startup. It's visible to the BIOS and in Linux Mint (running from thumb drive), but I get an "Unable to mount location" error.
I guess my question is - could the SSD have been the problem all along or did the interrupted power problem cause the SSD to fail? I'm thinking of installing windows to the Raptor or an older HDD and running a few games to see if it still has the reboot problem with the SSD removed.
Any other suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks.
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