Is my SSD failing already?

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I just built my desktop this summer, and I began having problems earlier this week.

It started when I would put my computer to sleep, I could wake it up via the keyboard and mouse, but the monitor would not pick up a signal. I would have to reset in order to wake the computer up.

I then had to begin resetting multiple times. At one point I had to plug my hdmi into the mobo port because my GPU drivers were randomly missing.

When the computer will cooperate and boot up giving a signal to the monitor, my mobo screen would show for two seconds as usual, then the windows logo would appear for a second or two with the spinning loading bubbles, my speakers would pop loudly while two white static lines will shoot across the top of the screen, and then I will be at my login page.

What really has me concerned is the feeling that my pc is running sluggish. As an example, when I open control panel and click on "view devices and printers" sometimes the next screen will load instantly like normal, but most times it takes about 10-15 (and sometimes upwards of 60) seconds to load up, with the green loading bar slowly moving across the progression field.

I am running windows 8.1 installed onto my SSD

Intel 4590
Seagate Barracuda HDD
OZC-ARC 100 240GB
AsRock H97
XFX 290x
Acer Monitor Model number S241HL

I ran CrystalDiskInfo and don't know exactly how to read the results, but it is showing "Good 99%" for my SSD and "Good 100%" for my HDD.

Thank you for your help.
 
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When your done with that check all your drivers and download them from your motherboard manufacturer website. Uninstall your GPU driver, reboot, run CCLeaner registry cleaner. Reinstall GPU drivers.
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Computers will always have problems. If it says good then your fine. Check your SSD manufacturer for and SSD optimization tool or software. You can try running trim from the defrag menu.
 
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Thanks for the quick response. I just trimmed and immediately afterwards my devices and printers took about forty seconds to open up. Any other possibilities?
 
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Just a thought but do have your SATA controller set to AHCI mode in the bios? Do you have SSD Guru downloaded and updated firmware
ocz.com/consumer/download
 
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I'm downloading SSD Guru now and will make sure that I have the updated firmware. While that is going, I just opened a game to see what my FPS would look like, and I was hovering around 40, with dips as low as 7. This is very uncharacteristic, as I normally don't dip below 60 in Skyrim at any settings. Could this point to failing RAM? Windows memory diagnostics found nothing wrong when I ran that, and the performance tab of task manager is able to see that I have all 8 GB, and that I'm only using roughly 40%.
 
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I updated the firmware and double checked my BIOS, I am set to AHCI mode. I'm starting to think it might be more of a RAM thing than a SSD thing, given what I mentioned about the game.
 
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How full is your SSD? Many things like downloads folder, documents and pagefile.sys can play hell with an SSD and should be moved to the hdd. You should have at minimum 10-15% open space on the SSD, anything less and performance goes in the toilet quick.
 
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When your done with that check all your drivers and download them from your motherboard manufacturer website. Uninstall your GPU driver, reboot, run CCLeaner registry cleaner. Reinstall GPU drivers.
 
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It's less than half full. Thank you for the suggestion though!
 
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Thanks for this, Ill have to try it tomorrow.
 
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He's right, you can also make sure you have hibernate disabled. This will eat up a lot of drive space.

 
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before i list the thing that you should mention i make a quick explain for you:
The most important downside of an SSD is that it has limited P/E or Program-Erase this limitation make an ssd run Write loads limited for example high-end SSDs has a P/E around 100/000.according that you're a gamer you have many P/E s a day on the other side this SSD that you mentioned has a typical P/E for normal workloads so the problem should be from there.you can see the P/E of your ssd on this page

http://ocz.com/consumer/arc-100-sata-3-ssd ---- on the endurance part

so the things that you should mention:
1-check that your SSD in set to Master SATA and the HDD is Slave
2-Download OCZ utilities for your SSD it will show you how much endurance you have left
3-Check that SATA mode has been restarted after installing the SSD (even if you had a clean windows installation) you can check this option in here :
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/922976
or if you scared of registry jobs and editing you can make it done with the registry key bellow:
http://media.askvg.com/downloads/2011/11/Reset-SATA-Hard-Disk-Mode-in-Registry.zip

4-if every thing seams to be fine you should run an check disk command by :
4-1-go to search box
4-2-search CMD
4-3-run it as Administrator
4-4-type chkdsk /b /f /v /scan c: (depend or your SSD partition the C: can change)
5-at the end all these thing are related to the SSD and storage problems and should fix it but a virus scan and reinstalling windows should be the last options.
 
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Alright, so I just tried to "refresh" the pc with the windows tool, and I got a message saying that I needed to insert the disk or thumb drive that I installed Windows with because "some files are missing". Does this mean that the likely solution would be to simply re-install windows?
I'm baffled because I haven't gone around deleting anything or downloading sketchy programs..

Also my install disk is 3 hours away back at my house lol. Could I just use my free upgrade to Windows 10?
 
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Best solution is a clean install. If you have your product key you can use the media creation tool and reinstall from a USB. Google "How to find my windows product key" and you should get a link to a program called produkey or something close to that. I don't remember exactly what it called right now.
 
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