M.2 Overheating ?

[Gazza_P]

Hi Guys

I'm having a weird situation with my PC at the moment. Mid game the whole PC will freeze. If I just restart the PC restarts but kicks up a black screen saying it could not find the boot device.

Only way to get back into windows is to shutdown completely and start again.

Today is did it again so by chance I had HD Sebtinal open and saw that all my drives temps was okay except my C drive which was at 48c and in yellow.

I opened the case, took the heating off and over time it dropped to 41c but still showed yellow so as to say caution.

Is it the drive that's faulty or how now?
The drive is about 11 months old

 

[SpaceWalker]

Reseat the M.2

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/en3qok

Reseat your Graphics Card.

 

[Switch]

Check your ssd model for maximum operating temperatures, but typically speaking 48c isn't hot, 65+ is considered hot and around 70-80 is the max operating temperature.

You might have a faulty ssd controller.

 

[goldfritter]

Is that 48deg at idle or during gaming?

If it's during gaming then your issue is not SSD overheating, 48 is not very hot.

If it's at idle, maybe keep an eye on the temps during gaming to check if they go up much higher.

 

[Gazza_P]

Is that 48deg at idle or during gaming?

If it's during gaming then your issue is not SSD overheating, 48 is not very hot.

If it's at idle, maybe keep an eye on the temps during gaming to check if they go up much higher.

That was at idle with like chrome open so no idea what it goes to during gaming

 

[Gazza_P]

Check your ssd model for maximum operating temperatures, but typically speaking 48c isn't hot, 65+ is considered hot and around 70-80 is the max operating temperature.

You might have a faulty ssd controller.

I've got 2 m.2 drives it just one that's doing it the other one sits at like 30c but I'll check into it

 

[goldfritter]

That was at idle with like chrome open so no idea what it goes to during gaming

You can use HWINFO and RivaTuner to set up an on-screen display to see temps during gaming. I recommend you try this, as depending on your case/mobo layout, when under load the GPU can can actually heat the SSD up quite a lot.

 

[Gazza_P]

You can use HWINFO and RivaTuner to set up an on-screen display to see temps during gaming. I recommend you try this, as depending on your case/mobo layout, when under load the GPU can can actually heat the SSD up quite a lot.

Very true I'll try that later and see , I have a waterloop though so hard to try reseat things 😅

 

[goldfritter]

Very true I'll try that later and see , I have a waterloop though so hard to try reseat things 😅

Doubt you'd need to reseat anything. Worst case scenario, you may end up needing to find a way to get a fan to give the SSD some air though.

What case do you have and what is the rad/fan layout? I.e. what rads do you have, where are they placed, are the fans on it intake or exhaust, do you have any intake/exhaust fans that aren't on a rad, etc. It's possible if all your intake and exhaust fans are blowing through a rad, then the things that aren't in the loop (SSD, VRM, etc.) are toasting up.

Just to be clear, I think an overheating SSD isn't very likely to be the issue. But HWINFO and RivaTuner are both free so it costs nothing to check it out. You may even find something else is overheating or causing an issue.

 

[Gazza_P]

So I have a metallic gear Neo Qube
The RAD is right at the top with the fans blowing out

All my other fans ( 2 x 140mm at the bottom & 3 x 120mm ) are blowing into the case

I checked everything now in the case and played abit - It started at 31c and then went to the 40c range then when the PC froze again it was at 58c.

https://imgur.com/a/9uvjGWn

 

[goldfritter]

So I have a metallic gear Neo Qube
The RAD is right at the top with the fans blowing out

All my other fans ( 2 x 140mm at the bottom & 3 x 120mm ) are blowing into the case

I checked everything now in the case and played abit - It started at 31c and then went to the 40c range then when the PC froze again it was at 58c.

https://imgur.com/a/9uvjGWn

Hmm, probably not the SSD temperature then.

 

[Gazza_P]

Hmm, probably not the SSD temperature then.

Yeah no idea it's just that one m.2 that's doing it, hence maybe gone faulty ? I'm going to buy new thermal pads and see if that works.

Problem is the heat one that one is very erratic. Sitting at 41c then all of a sudden it hits almost 60c then PC freezes

 

[Gazza_P]

So update

I checked everything in the case and made sure everything is good. I did a format and fresh install to elimate that.

While gaming I monitored the temp of the drive closely, the moment the drive hits 50c the system freezes and then I must shutdown and restart.

The manual states it can go up to 70c.

I've logged a return with takealot and will see if they replace it if it fixes the issue 🤔

Also strangely enough after the fresh install I also updated my bios and everything. Reset all my XMP etc and the PC would just hang in a reboot loop. Hard drive sentinel says drive is 100% but I think it's faulty to be honest

 

[Gazza_P]

Update

The drive was RMA'D (Actually very fast GG Takealot)

Sent me a new one and all seems good, so I guess the drive was faulty