Can CPU activity be halted by faulty SSD?

[egil87]

Earlier tonight I posted this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/290315-14-horrible-stuttering-writing-disk

I have now removed the faulty SSD and all stuttering is gone, but before I did I took some screenshots of the task manager when the stuttering was going on, and I wondered if any of you could tell me whan might be going on.

http://i.imgur.com/FC4Al.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UD19I.png

http://i.imgur.com/V2hPe.jpg

As noted in the other post, the second any activity was started on the faulty SSD, the computer went haywire.

Thank you for any answers.

 

[Raiddinn]

A lot of things * can * happen in regards to faulty hardware.

Did you look at popatim's answer in that thread?

 

[s3anister]

So here's the deal, your Operating System is held on an SSD in your system. Crazy, I know. Here's the problem though, Windows isn't completely loaded into memory once everything is "started up" and especially programs use the SSD(s) to cache to so if one goes defective then you're going to have issues. The other thing that could cause issues is the SATA controller for all your drives going bad (I've personally had this happen to where it didn't allow me to install graphics drivers without a BSOD - entirely the SATA controller/north bridge that got fried in a voltage spike) It's possible that you installing the nexus download manager was just hilarious coincidence to your point of failure, I say this because I've never heard of anyone having a problem like this with the nexus DL manager. Also, windows won't find anything wrong with the SATA controller if you run check disk like you did.

Personally, I'd suggest backing up all data then reformat your SSD(s) using the Secure Erase function then reinstall Windows. If your problem still persists you need to start testing your SSD(s) on different computers to see if they're at fault or if it's other hardware/software you're running.

 

[s3anister]

In short, yes a faulty SSD or SATA controller or just about any complete or partial hardware failure can cause CPU activity to be halted.

 

[egil87]

Thank you for the informative answer! I will get on this as soon as possible! Will report back with results!