- Aug 19, 2014
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Hey, everyone. I think my SSD might be failing.
Over the past two weeks or so, I've been having to restart my PC way more frequently than I should have to if it was functioning properly. At least two or three times a day it needs to be restarted for me to regain control over the system.
What's been happening is that, randomly throughout the day, the system will begin to lag and become unresponsive. If I try to open a program that's pinned to the dock on my desktop, the icon will flash several times as if it's going to open, but then nothing happens. The same goes for if I try to open a program through the start menu, or directly from it's installation folder.
If I have a program open when this problem starts to happen, often times I can't even get the program to close. More times than not I can't even get the start menu to open, and keyboard shortcuts don't work very well either, such as Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager. If I can manage to get the start menu open and try to put the computer to sleep, the screen will go off as if it's going to sleep, but the PC itself never does. Trying to log off doesn't work, and shutting it down takes about 15 minutes. The only real, quick fix is use the reset button on the tower.
When this happens, I notice that the Disk Activity Light on top of the tower is almost constantly on. There will be blinks here and there, but it's mostly on; as far as I know, that's unusual. In the Event Viewer after I restart the system, there often times will be a series of errors marked as "Disk" under the Source column. This leads me to believe the problem is with my SSD.
A friend of mine had me install Samsung Magician and activate the "Maximum Reliability" preset to see if that helped, but it didn't. In fact, I had to manually set my Page File back to what I had it set at before running the program so I could play GTA V again. I had it set to 6,142 MB and the program set it to 200 MB which caused my system to pop a low memory error when starting GTA V, crashing the game. I think that was the only actual change it made though; the others I had made myself when I first built the system using an SSD Optimization Guide.
I don't know what to do here. Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe there are some tests I can run that I'm not aware of to see if it's my SSD or not. It's still under warranty for another year, so if it does need to be replaced, it won't cost me anything. I still won't like having to replace it though. :/
Over the past two weeks or so, I've been having to restart my PC way more frequently than I should have to if it was functioning properly. At least two or three times a day it needs to be restarted for me to regain control over the system.
What's been happening is that, randomly throughout the day, the system will begin to lag and become unresponsive. If I try to open a program that's pinned to the dock on my desktop, the icon will flash several times as if it's going to open, but then nothing happens. The same goes for if I try to open a program through the start menu, or directly from it's installation folder.
If I have a program open when this problem starts to happen, often times I can't even get the program to close. More times than not I can't even get the start menu to open, and keyboard shortcuts don't work very well either, such as Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager. If I can manage to get the start menu open and try to put the computer to sleep, the screen will go off as if it's going to sleep, but the PC itself never does. Trying to log off doesn't work, and shutting it down takes about 15 minutes. The only real, quick fix is use the reset button on the tower.
When this happens, I notice that the Disk Activity Light on top of the tower is almost constantly on. There will be blinks here and there, but it's mostly on; as far as I know, that's unusual. In the Event Viewer after I restart the system, there often times will be a series of errors marked as "Disk" under the Source column. This leads me to believe the problem is with my SSD.
A friend of mine had me install Samsung Magician and activate the "Maximum Reliability" preset to see if that helped, but it didn't. In fact, I had to manually set my Page File back to what I had it set at before running the program so I could play GTA V again. I had it set to 6,142 MB and the program set it to 200 MB which caused my system to pop a low memory error when starting GTA V, crashing the game. I think that was the only actual change it made though; the others I had made myself when I first built the system using an SSD Optimization Guide.
I don't know what to do here. Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe there are some tests I can run that I'm not aware of to see if it's my SSD or not. It's still under warranty for another year, so if it does need to be replaced, it won't cost me anything. I still won't like having to replace it though. :/
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