I haven't been on the forums in a while, but my rig is still as listed in my signature from when I built it last fall. I have a Crucial M4 64gb on an Asus P8Z68 V board. (I also have a secondary WD 500gb.) Everything has been running fine since last fall. No problems at all. It even went 1400 miles in the back of my car about 8 months ago (moved) and it has been perfect. Until last night.
I've had several different symptoms, so trying to sort through them to figure out root cause has not been easy. And, even though I have my settings set to generate minidump files, there are never any created.
Anyway, I walked away from the PC for about 30 minutes last night and when I came back I had a lovely black screen that said there was no boot device. So apparently it had rebooted itself and was not seeing the M4. So I went into BIOS and sure enough, no M4 seen. I powered off, powered back on and it was seen and booted fine.
Started looking through event viewer...nothing except that the previous shutdown was unexpected. As mentioned above, no dmp files. So, no clues. Then it hung. Hard drive light goes solid, system stops responding, mouse sometimes will respond/move initially but then that stops too. Sometimes it will reboot...only twice did it actually show a BSOD...other times I have to hard power off. Regardless, no dmp files are ever created. One time it didn't hang, but just immediately rebooted and once again, M4 was not seen in BIOS.
Troubleshooting I've done...updated BIOS, updated firmware on SSD, ran malware/malabytes, ran sfc, ran chkdsk, disabled avast. Once this behavior started, the longest it has stayed on without hanging/crashing is roughly 20 minutes. It even stayed up long enough once that I was able to ran Macrium Reflect to grab a backup. But when Macrium was downloading WAIK to make a PE boot disc it hung during that process. I was able to finish creating the PE media after a reboot but soon after that it crashed again. I was in safe mode several times and I will say it never crashed on me in safe mode...but I wasn't in safe mode for more than 20 minutes or so.
It was initally plugged into SATA port 2 (SATA6) and in course of troubleshooting, I've moved it to port 1 (SATA6) and ports 3 and 4 (SATA3). No change.
One of the BSOD messages was: "A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated." 0x000000F4. Nothing in event viewer after that and no dmp.
Another time, it hung, didn't actually reboot and an error on the screen was for BCU.exe...instruction @ referenced memory required data not in memory...i/o error state 0xc00000e. On reboot from that error, the drive was not seen in BIOS.
Only one time did I have event messages in event viewer and it event id 11 and mentioned a controller error on HD2/DR2 (at which time the SSD was plugged in to port 2).
The only thing I can think of to try which I haven't yet is to swap out the SATA cable. Other than that, I am at a loss.
I will say that my other drives (DVDRW and my WD500gb) which were originally plugged in to ports 4 & 6 (and currently on 5 & 6) have always shown up in BIOS even when the M4 doesn't.
With all of that said, I'm still not sure if problem is the M4 or the Asus board...though I'm leaning towards the M4.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I've had several different symptoms, so trying to sort through them to figure out root cause has not been easy. And, even though I have my settings set to generate minidump files, there are never any created.
Anyway, I walked away from the PC for about 30 minutes last night and when I came back I had a lovely black screen that said there was no boot device. So apparently it had rebooted itself and was not seeing the M4. So I went into BIOS and sure enough, no M4 seen. I powered off, powered back on and it was seen and booted fine.
Started looking through event viewer...nothing except that the previous shutdown was unexpected. As mentioned above, no dmp files. So, no clues. Then it hung. Hard drive light goes solid, system stops responding, mouse sometimes will respond/move initially but then that stops too. Sometimes it will reboot...only twice did it actually show a BSOD...other times I have to hard power off. Regardless, no dmp files are ever created. One time it didn't hang, but just immediately rebooted and once again, M4 was not seen in BIOS.
Troubleshooting I've done...updated BIOS, updated firmware on SSD, ran malware/malabytes, ran sfc, ran chkdsk, disabled avast. Once this behavior started, the longest it has stayed on without hanging/crashing is roughly 20 minutes. It even stayed up long enough once that I was able to ran Macrium Reflect to grab a backup. But when Macrium was downloading WAIK to make a PE boot disc it hung during that process. I was able to finish creating the PE media after a reboot but soon after that it crashed again. I was in safe mode several times and I will say it never crashed on me in safe mode...but I wasn't in safe mode for more than 20 minutes or so.
It was initally plugged into SATA port 2 (SATA6) and in course of troubleshooting, I've moved it to port 1 (SATA6) and ports 3 and 4 (SATA3). No change.
One of the BSOD messages was: "A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated." 0x000000F4. Nothing in event viewer after that and no dmp.
Another time, it hung, didn't actually reboot and an error on the screen was for BCU.exe...instruction @ referenced memory required data not in memory...i/o error state 0xc00000e. On reboot from that error, the drive was not seen in BIOS.
Only one time did I have event messages in event viewer and it event id 11 and mentioned a controller error on HD2/DR2 (at which time the SSD was plugged in to port 2).
The only thing I can think of to try which I haven't yet is to swap out the SATA cable. Other than that, I am at a loss.
I will say that my other drives (DVDRW and my WD500gb) which were originally plugged in to ports 4 & 6 (and currently on 5 & 6) have always shown up in BIOS even when the M4 doesn't.
With all of that said, I'm still not sure if problem is the M4 or the Asus board...though I'm leaning towards the M4.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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