SSD install issue or STEAM issue?

[vincedea]

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.

 

[Elixer]

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.

 

[Cerb]

What model SSD(s)?

Have you checked SMART (look for offline uncorrectable, and reallocated, sectors, reallocation events, and DMA errors)?

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Had similar happen before. Once was bad RAM, other time power supply was going out.

 

[vincedea]

What model SSD(s)?

Have you checked SMART (look for offline uncorrectable, and reallocated, sectors, reallocation events, and DMA errors)?

I am using 2 Samsung ones. ONe is the 830 model 128 gb and the 840 evo 240 gb

 

[vincedea]

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.

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

 

[corkyg]

Have you tried reinstalling Steam?

 

[Elixer]

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

You said all your games crash, so, you do have stability issues.

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.

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.

 

[corkyg]

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.

 

[evilspoons]

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!