In Progress Sudden Shutdowns and Immediate Reboots

[Francespo]

You are correct, I used that SATA SSD as the main drive for about a year before moving to the current NVME SSD. How did that affect my system?

 

[phillpower2]

It still has Windows files on it and including a Recovery Partition either of which could be putting a spanner in the works.

Best suggestion I can make here is to to clean install Windows 11 and the system drivers to the Patriot Burst SSD and be done with it.

 

[Francespo]

I'd prefer not to install my OS on the Patriot burst since it's a SATA SSD and its speed is slower than the other one. What if I delete both the partitions on that drive to make sure it won't interfere with a new Windows install?

 

[phillpower2]

Understood, you could try formatting the Patriot but I suspect that it will not help with the size limitation when you try and shrink the other partition.

What about trying a 200GB partition on the Platinum SSD.

 

[Francespo]

Understood, you could try formatting the Patriot but I suspect that it will not help with the size limitation when you try and shrink the other partition.

What about trying a 200GB partition on the Platinum SSD.

I'd rather wipe my C drive saving only some important docs. I am now backing up those docs and data on the Patriot Burst to format them both and install Windows on a partition made on the current C drive. In this regard are there any best practices Windows initial configurations? I saw a lot of videos and articles covering this topic but I'm not able to determine which are legit.

Interestingly since I swapped my power plan from high performance to balanced I've never experienced any shutdown and reboot. could this be the root cause of my issue? Or is this power plan only highlighting other hardware/software/OC-settings issues?

In addition to the above, be sure to have the Windows Power Plan set to Balanced, Ultra and High Performance are a form of overclocking that is known to cause stability and overheating issues, the setting should only be used for gaming type notebooks that have a discrete GPU that needs the extra power.

Do you have some resources where I can learn more about this?

 

[phillpower2]

Honest answer is making sure that you install the MBs chipset, storage and video drivers as soon as Windows is installed everything else normally just falls into place, you will just partitioning your C: drive afterwards which is exactly what you should be doing.

Good news, Corsair make some great PSUs but they must be used correctly as in have the required output and efficiency to be able to support the intended hardware, High Performance looks to have been purring too much load on your unit.

Do you have some resources where I can learn more about this?

Not of my own ( Unusually ) it comes from years seeing the setting cause problems, worth a read though is the article here

 

[Francespo]

Thanks.

Let's say the performance power plan was causing the undesired behaviour, was it problematic by itself or did it only spark another latent problem?

Still assuming this was the cause of the problem, looking at my errors dump do you still suggest performing a clean Windows installation?

 

[xrobwx71]

It's not problematic in itself but what it does is allow the CPU to run at its max clock speed for longer periods. This in turn generates higher temps which in turn can cause the problems.