Before I get into it, I’d consider myself pretty tech-savvy. I have tried many troubleshooting steps and i really don’t know how else to proceed so here we are.

About a week ago I started having weird issues with my Windows 11 installation. Specs of PC are below:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3800x
MB: Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra (rev 1.0)
RAM: 32GB GSkill Trident Z (3000, but I ended up having to manually clock in XMP to 2933 for stability)
GPU: AMD 7900XTX
Storages:

  • - 1x WD Black 1TB NVME SSD (Main Boot Disk, purchased about 2 years ago)
  • - 1x WD Black 2TB NVME SSD (Secondary NVME for games that need SSD)
  • - 2x Seagate IronWolf datacenter NAS drives, 8TB each (got em from work, a client was throwing em out so we DOD wiped them and checked drive health and they were good so I took em home) primarily used for mass storage of backups/photos and stuff, they have some games on them, but brand new SSD is having the same errors in steam client

Issues I’m having:

  • Weird issues related to Windows, Notepad crashing, occasional BSOD, issues with saving files and having the hash value not match the original file. SFC and DISM come back constantly with corruption and issues.
  • Issues with the Steam client (Steam claims disk issues, corrupt update files, etc. Not just with a particular game either, it’s all of them that are updating. Games constantly get corrupted and kick me out, I have to run a Steam Library Folder Repair, and then a “Verify Game Files” several times to get it to actually go through, but then it just immediately corrupts again

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What I’ve tried:

  • SFC/DISM and startup repair from clean ISO on USB (Made on another machine)

  • Reinstalling Windows 11 (clean custom install, wipe all partitions on 1TB NVME and re-install

  • Updating BIOS to latest version

  • running CHKDSK on all drives, the 8TB drives threw some wonky SMART data (they have tens of thousands of hours on them) but they have no bad sectors, both NVMEs showing 0 errors

  • running WD Dashboard against the NVMEs (pretty sure it’s just SMART data) and no issues on either SSD.

  • running Steam as an administrator

  • wiping and reinstalling Steam in it’s entirety

  • using DDU to uninstall and reinstall graphics drivers

Anybody run into this issue before? Is it possibly bad SMART data and my 1TB is dying? I suppose i could test this by swapping out the 2TB in the main NVME slot and reinstalling Windows (Just purchased 2TB last week, got less than 80 hours on it)

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.