Files corrupting

Rozzy85

Rozzy85

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I've had my machine up for running for less than a week and already I have things corrupting. It all started when I was doing some heavy work. RAM usage had just peaked 10GB (16GB total RAM). I then closed Photoshop which appears to have been the cause of it the first time and Windows blue screened and did a memory dump. I then ran CHKDSK and it repaired 10,000 of file indexes and took about 15 minutes to complete. Many things haven't been working right afterward. Photoshop will now not work and can't be unistalled and then reinstalled. It has installation problems every time. Various files seem to have been corrupted although nothing important thankfully. For some reason it affected one of my games which was a bit strange and corrupted a load of mods I had installed.

Today CHKDSK ran again out of the blue when starting up but far less files were repaired this time. Might have been an accidental scheduling but it did appear to fix stuff.

I have an SSD RAID 0 with 2 x Samsung 850 Pro 128GB. The 1TB HDD I've had for 6 years is fine, nothing corrupted on that and it's on the same SATA controller. I guess I need to run some disk utility to determine if there's something wrong but don't know what. The motherboard is an Asrock X99 WS. Since X99 is still quite new I don't know if this is just teething problems with drivers and stuff?
 
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did the disk check run on the SSD's?

if you are getting file corruption its going to be a issue on the drive where the files are being stored.

its possible 1 of the ssd's maybe having issues, do you use the software that came with them? (Samsung magician)
 
Can be from faulty ram too. Disconnect any data drives or network drives before proceeding.

Run some tests. Disable any overclocks you have in place. Check sata cables. Run memtest
 
Yes, it ran from the SSD drives. I don't think anything else came with the drives. Just them in a box and a manual but I'll look again.

I hope it isn't faulty RAM as my last PC had RAM problems too. I guess I'll have to do a full memtest to be sure.
 
yeah, run memtest and make sure your ram is ok and has no problems.

do you have any information from the blue screen when it happens? should normally help point towards the issue or problem
 
I ran memtest86. Did the full test on all 16GB of RAM which took about 50 minutes and it passed with no errors.

abarrass said:
You can download the magician software from the Samsung website. Although as you have them in Raid not all of the utilities will work.
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Yeah, I've installed it and I only have "Performance Benchmark" available. Everything else is blanked out.

do you have any information from the blue screen when it happens? should normally help point towards the issue or problem
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No, I don't remember what it said. Was annoyed at the time as I lost some work so was trying to find a the most recent auto-backup I had. All I remember is the reason said Window Blue Screen, the memory address it happened at and that it took a memory dump.

Don't know what else to do. Could it just be bad drivers? I think I might have to reinstall Windows again as so many things have broken. It seems to have corrupted many program files for things on the RAID volume.
 
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maybe try doing a system restore back when everything was ok?

mine is disabled to save on space but ive got nothing on there to loose.

was any drivers updated before the issue happened or windows updates?
 
Restore points only seem to go back 2 days so I don't think they'd be much use. No drivers have been updated since I installed them the first time.
 
if\when it happens again could you post a screen shot of the blue screen message?

have you checked that the firmware is up to date on the SSD's?
 
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