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SSD install issue or STEAM issue?

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vincedea

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Hey guys,

I am not sure if i am posting in the correct place, please move if this is the wrong place.

So with my problem. I installed 2 SSD's in my computer last year during the holidays and basically reinstalled everything as if it was a new computer. In BIOS I think i have AHCI turned on correctly and now I have the "safely remove..." it shows all my harddrives and SSD's. All my programs and games work fine EXCEPT my STEAM games. When I start Steam up it goes through like it is reinstalling itself with the updating (Steam is installed on a different hard drive not on my C Drive), when I start a game up it would crash after 2 minutes, this happens with all my games and even new games that i bought from Steam. I have uninstalled/reinstall and done the same with the games. I have also done the verify game caches and still get this issue.

Did I do something wrong? what would be causing the issue? is it the Hot Plug/hot swap feature for SSD? I find it weird that some people dont have their Hard drives show up in their "safely remove hardware"

Motherboard I am using is the EP45-UD3P, and everything is running on stock.

Please help me thanks.
 
Nope, the hot-plugging icon has nothing to do with your issue.
I would run prime95 (for a few hours) and memtest86+ (overnight), since, you have system stability issues.
 
What model SSD(s)?

Have you checked SMART (look for offline uncorrectable, and reallocated, sectors, reallocation events, and DMA errors)?
 
Elixer said:
Nope, the hot-plugging icon has nothing to do with your issue.
I would run prime95 (for a few hours) and memtest86+ (overnight), since, you have system stability issues.
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i dont think I am having stability issues as everything else works without issue. its just steam doesnt work ever since i installed the samsung ssd
 
vincedea said:
i dont think I am having stability issues as everything else works without issue. its just steam doesnt work ever since i installed the samsung ssd
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You said all your games crash, so, you do have stability issues.

vincedea said:
When I start Steam up it goes through like it is reinstalling itself with the updating (Steam is installed on a different hard drive not on my C Drive), when I start a game up it would crash after 2 minutes, this happens with all my games and even new games that i bought from Steam.
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It won't hurt to run those programs, we are trying to rule things out...with the limited information you have given.
Got to start someplace.
 
Elixer makes a very good point. Games are graphis intensive, and involve big time use of your graphics card and its memory. That may be where the problem lies.
 
FWIW, some people's hard drives do not show up under "safely remove hardware" because their EFI (BIOS) specifically disables the hot-plug flag on that AHCI channel. I can toggle them on and off individually on my P8Z68-V PRO. I have them all turned off because I don't want to accidentally click 'safely remove' on a drive that is permanently installed in my system when I'm trying to unplug a flash drive.

Having them means you have AHCI working; NOT having them doesn't mean ACHI is broken!
 
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