First of all, I have tried the methods on internet, such as disabling superfetch and so on, however none of them worked. At this point I don't think mine is the same case as those on internet.
So about few weeks ago, I began to get American Megatrends screen instead of regular booting sequence. It gave a rather horrifying message, which is as follows:
WARNING! Please back up your data and replace hard disk drive
WARNING! Your HDD/SSD might crash at any moment.
Press F1 to Run SETUP
Now, after my initial brief research whilst panicking, this seemed like a something called SMART test notification. I was able to go into BIOS by pressing F1, then successfully booted from there. At first, I couldn't see any irregular symptom. As I am using ADATA M.2 SSD, I used the ADATA SSD Toolbox, which basically showed me that everything is fine. So, I got even more confused!
Then, after few days, few applications stopped working. To be more precise, upon starting certain applications, such as chrome, microsoft edge, and origin, my disk usage in task manager would suddenly reach 100%, and the applications would not work. Nevertheless, chrome works in incognito mode for some reason. I tried meddling with options on chrome, however unfortunately none of them worked out.
So, I am confused if this is due to hardware or software failure, and uncertain which area I need to look into it.
My desktop specs are as follows:
i5-8600k
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-H
G.Skill Ripjaws 8gb x 2
EVGA GTX1080
ADATA XPG SX8000 M.2 512GB
WD Blue 1TB
Thank you for reading.
So about few weeks ago, I began to get American Megatrends screen instead of regular booting sequence. It gave a rather horrifying message, which is as follows:
WARNING! Please back up your data and replace hard disk drive
WARNING! Your HDD/SSD might crash at any moment.
Press F1 to Run SETUP
Now, after my initial brief research whilst panicking, this seemed like a something called SMART test notification. I was able to go into BIOS by pressing F1, then successfully booted from there. At first, I couldn't see any irregular symptom. As I am using ADATA M.2 SSD, I used the ADATA SSD Toolbox, which basically showed me that everything is fine. So, I got even more confused!
Then, after few days, few applications stopped working. To be more precise, upon starting certain applications, such as chrome, microsoft edge, and origin, my disk usage in task manager would suddenly reach 100%, and the applications would not work. Nevertheless, chrome works in incognito mode for some reason. I tried meddling with options on chrome, however unfortunately none of them worked out.
So, I am confused if this is due to hardware or software failure, and uncertain which area I need to look into it.
My desktop specs are as follows:
i5-8600k
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-H
G.Skill Ripjaws 8gb x 2
EVGA GTX1080
ADATA XPG SX8000 M.2 512GB
WD Blue 1TB
Thank you for reading.
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