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Random spikes of 100% disk activity on system drive.
Hello,
I am having issues with my system, or it might be my SSD, I am unsure hence here I am.
Symptoms:
The C:\ drive spikes to 100% activity but 0 avg respone, 0 read/write for 2-5 seconds (usually but it have taken over 40 seconds at a couple of occasions) followed by 5k+ ms respons and then back to normal operation. Most explorer relates things become unresponsive during these spikes like moving windows opening the start menu, scrolling a page in chrome. While other activities like a youtube video being unaffected as long as it has buffered. If another one of my drives are doing anything when a spike occurs they become inactive until the spike is over.
When:
The spikes happen mostly at random intervals, and seemingly after the system have been running for 4+, or so, hours they are gone. But if I open a program or a file explorer it can sometimes invoke but it is not something I can reproduce on command.
Different games seem to be affected differently Arma 3 does not like the spikes at all and seems to be a grand invoker of them. EVE ONLINE does not either like them. While Counter-Strike: Global Offensive does not appear to be affected by the spike at all, neither is Dota 2. [To clarify the spikes still happen but they do not interrupt these two Source engine games.]
They also appear to happen in safe mode so it should not be a 3rd party software issue I think.
I also can't seem to identify if it's a certain process that is causing it.
When did it start:
As far as I can tell it started as soon as I upgraded to Win 10 from Win 7.
Background:
I was going to replace most of the parts in my computer so I waited with my upgrade. On the advice from Microsoft support I installed the new parts and then did a clean install of Win 7 which I immediately upgraded to Win 10 using Windows Media Tool(I think it's called).
Changes between the two computers: New CPU, Motherboard, Ram and I removed a 80gb SSD and replaced it with the Samsung EVO 500gb. The same 240gb INTEL SSDSC2CW240A3 is still the System Drive.
What I have tried.
Repair install,
SFC scan (found corrupt but as far as I can tell it's only the opencl.dll that it could not repair.)
DSIM
Disable: Superfetch, Windows Search and the BISM(the win updated thing) (re-enables when they yielded no result. Did not disables them in the Registry as I assume that would have the same effect as disabling them in Services)
Update my SSD firmware.
Change SATA cables on my SSD
Memory Diagnostics Tool
Maybe something else I have forgotten, I have done my best to test potential fixes suggested to people with 100% activity issues.
If you want me to repeat any of these things I'm all for it. I have spent a lot of time trying to figure this out.
I was going to attach the CBS.log file but it's 8 megs so if you want that please suggest in what manner you want it.
Spec.txt is the Windows Exported system info.
SSD1/SSD2 is just a screen-cap of the performance tab in Task Manager during and after a spike.
I've tried to remember everything that I can think of. But as I can't even Identify the cause of my problems I've hit a wall. If you need me to provide anything else just ask. Also if something I tried to explain is unclear let me know.