Hey there guys. As the title indicates my Kingston v300 SSD is hitting 100% disk activity, It is causing stuttering in games and slowing down my OS by quite a bit. The issue came after I installed a new R9 380 and did a format and reinstalled Win 10. Before i had a 560TI and never had any issues what so ever.
I have pretty much anything you can imagine a google search could make me do; disabling superfetch/windows search/BITS, ticking off "show me tips about windows", everything but no cigar.
Is it goodbye SSD or what is going on here? It's a couple years old but have always functioned fine.
Any help will be appreciated big time!!
open resource monitor, and see whats up.
also disable page file.
Will try disabling page file as soon as i get home.
That's the funny part, the ressource monitor dosen't show nothing. For what I can see, svhost and Compressed Sytem Service seems to be dominant along with Services.
try checking to she what your dump files are. windows when set to complete dump will try and dump ram into the disk.
Did you look for frequently repeated errors or anything else strange in the windows Application or System logs?
Already did, as I already wrote..
Yeah found nothing except planned defrag which I turned off, but that wasn't the thing. Also did the chkdsk command in CMD it found nothing.
I can somewhat force a BSOD if I put too much load on the drive with the OS and enter the task manager. The error I got there was: Kernel data inpage error - Frankly I have no idea what this error means, except it could perhaps have something to do with the page file.
I believe a kernel page error means there is some kind of data corruption in the RAM or page file. It's not really that clear to me either. If I had no other knowledge of the system other than that error I would suspect the RAM, hard drive, or motherboard drivers.
The hard drive sounds like it is fine. It seems unlikely to be the RAM given that it the system worked fine before reinstalling windows. Windows drivers usually are tested pretty thoroughly for issues like this, but I have seen faulty SATA drivers cause data corruption. If you're sure you are using the same drivers, it also seems unlikely.
However, if you can narrow it down to svchost or a specific windows service this might be helpful. A utility like Process Explorer might be even able to help you narrow it down to a particular thread. The idea is that since there are so many copies of svchost running (and one process can run multiple windows services), finding the thread in the svchost process that is misbehaving can tell you which windows service is causing the slowdown. I am sort of assuming it is a windows service if svchost is causing the problem. IDK if this makes any sense or is helpful but I hope so.
Just out of curiosity... Can you give a rough estimate of how mach data is being transferred at any given time by looking at the performance monitor? I mean how many MB/s is the driver reading and writing while it is maxxed out?
If all else fails I would put the old video card back in and see what happens.
I understand where you want to go, but my issue is that the only information i get (Through task manager/ressource monitor) is that my activity is at 100% not exactly what is causing it. If i had the reason i could just stop it right? My suspicion, based around what similar issues have been, is that it can't really be anything but a Windows process. I will definitely try Process Explorer as soon as i get back to my PC in a couple of days.
I honestly have not tried stress testing the SSD yet in terms of transfer speed. I have seen no slowdowns in either boot time transfering speed, and at idle with activity at 100% the drive only transfers standard amount of data(0-5 MB/s). I therefor have no suspicion that there is anything at fault in that matter.
Last thing... Before the format i had to do bios reset for my GPU to find a signal, which ended up in my SSD were not able to find and boot to my OS because of a third faulty HDD which, of course, is not connected to the system anymore.
That's what I thought. So the the SSD is not really fully taxxed? Win10 shows 100% disk usage at 5MB/s? I see this all the time on systems that work normally and I don't think is related to the problem. Windows 10 seems to give incorrect information there sometimes if not all the time.
Yeah I have also come to the conclusion that it must be something in Win 10. But if it's a software issue that must mean that something can be done right?
I could just reformat and install Win 7, but now it's personal. I am not giving up until I see Win 10 on its knees!
I will report back once I have more information.