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@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oof, those ain't cheap either

do you have a way things get backed up every now and then to something else?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz a couple other possibilities are that your connection to the drive is bad, or things are overheating

at least, that's what i think

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz my line of reasoning is

• long POST means that it had issue with some hardware likely
• you see corrupted stuff appear sometimes on your drive
• there are SMART warnings
• you have inexplicable instability sometimes
• your system jutters every now and then (a side effect of disk access)
• this log entry points to a disk issue right before the unexpected shutdown

so i'm pretty sure a lot of these things would go away with another drive

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz "HardDiskVolume3"

whichever disk that is...might be your culprit

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz hmm, i see volmgr errors...

are there any hints in there..? because that just makes me think it's a disk even more

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh heck, your log categories are too powerful...in that case, maybe uncheck the "Applications and Services" logs then?

you can also change the "last hour" to "all time" if you do that

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oofa. i guess the thing i'd do is to make a custom error and critical log message view in the event viewer (like the screenshot), and then wait for the next time something acts up to check it for hints

if that doesn't give anything useful, then, as much as i hate to suggest it, maybe back up your drives, and then try running your computer without the NVMe for a while to see if that's what's getting you ^^'

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz that was...a good question actually

i know that gsmartcontrol can do it, but i don't actually see anything in CrystalDiskInfo

it seems like speedfan can do it though! (i was just talking about the extended test, but i imagine the in-depth analysis couldn't hurt either) http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

i think this data gets uploaded though, so i'm not sure how comfy you are with that idea

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz hm, yeah, nothing really jumps out at me, though i also don't know what the lg service does ^^'

and a long POST huh? maybe some service that interacts with your hardware is doing A Bad? in fact, that actually points back to hard drive stuff a little. can you see if you can run a full SMART test on your drives? i feel like there might be something there that's being missed

that could also explain why a service caused that bluescreen--because if it fails to do I/O, that can happen

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz the main reason that autoruns is better for this is because you can see the image path, so you can more easily tell if it's a service you even want

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz (or better yet! autoruns in sysinternals! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns)

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh!! looking at that, it looks like a service is probably what's doing this to you!

services.msc is a good place to see if anything seems sketchy

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz ah, sfc found things?

sometimes this actually happens normally because of updates--though the stuttering is something else entirely ^^'

does the event viewer have anything helpful in it? and does watching the resource monitor give any hints about what's causing the stuttering?

if you really want to dig into certain things, process explorer and procmon in sysinternals can also be handy

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz yeah! that's not actually that scary to me compared to a general overall "warning" state

of course, you should still be a little careful, but this gives a much better idea about how well your disk is doing~

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh, that means some of the attributes passed that threshold, but you can actually see which ones if you have something that can read them (like crystaldiskinfo on windows, or gsmartutil in linux)

some attributes are scarier than others (like there's one that's simply "disk on time", which is a less sacry warning than say, read failures)

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i love fog! it's so atmospheric

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oofa

have you checked the smart attributes of the drive? they can give a pretty good idea how close a disk is to biffing it

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz nini! (combo! x2)