SSD and getting corrupted files :(

I have an M11x R1 and a new Kingsting 128GB V series SSD.

Left 4 Dead 2 has had a corrupted file 2 days in a row now. Thankfully steam has repaired this and it hasn't been much of an issue. However I use this laptop for work as well and having corrupted files on an ongoing issue could be a problem.

There are 3 items in my device manager (win 7) that do not have drivers. 1 is the falling HDD sensor I was told I don't need with an SSD. the other 2 are Base System devices which I don't know what they are. Could this be causing the issue?

 

(1) The missing base system devices do not affect any data corruption you might be experiencing.

(2) Are you experiencing data corruption in anything else besides L4D2? It could be a problem with the game / Steam, rather than the SSD itself.

 

Base system drivers can/might be power related (to ensure components properly go to sleep, standby, etc.) and this could very well be the issue with your file corruption.

I would get the driver files needed for your model to ensure that that is not the issue (can still be the SSD...).

How important is this? Especially for a work notebook, once I tracked down all the proper drivers to show device manager 'clean' - I would re-install the O/S and apps from the ground up.

You simply don't know if an essential Windows file (or files) is also corrupted too.

Better to take a couple of hours of precautionary action, rather than scrambling a few weeks/months down the road to get an important file/project off of a more seriously corrupted system.

Good luck.

 

This is what my SSD is detected as in Windows. It says ATA. is this what it should say?

 

Could you maybe post up a picture of your running processes?

It isn't uncommon that Steam removes corrupt files, alot of times Steam will choke up on an update and you have to go into the Steam folder and manually delete ClientRegistry.blob and that will force Steam to auto update.

 

also if something gets corrupted or lost try using piriforms recuva to recover it

 

No offense, but I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

Missing drivers, improperly installed drivers, etc will not cause the problem that you are reporting. The symptoms of driver-related problems are that the entire drive will either work, or the entire drive will not work. You don't get a drive that sometimes-works-properly-and-sometimes-corrupts-data.

The most likely reason(s) for corrupt data in Left 4 Dead 2 is (in order of likelihoood):

(1) There is something with the software itself (L4D2 or Steam) that is causing the data corruption. If you can confirm whether this data corruption only happens in L4D2 / Steam, and doesn't happen anywhere else, you can stop looking for the cause of the problem.

(2) Hardware failure on the laptop's SATA connector or SATA controller. The only way to test this is to clone your SSD onto a known-good SATA drive, and test if that known-good SATA drive experiences the same problems. And if this is the cause of your problem, call your laptop manufacturer's support department. You will need a motherboard replacement.

(3) Hardware failure on the SSD drive itself. The best way to test this is to try using the SSD in a known-good computer with known-good SATA connector & controller. If you still experience data corruption problems with the SSD even after that, then you will need to call Kingston and RMA the drive.



And P.S. Yes... Windows Device manager screenshot looks fine to me.

 

So far in L4D2 the game will load. Then after it's loaded it will either crash right away or after I left click it will crash.

Each time I had steam verify the integrity of the files and there was a single corrupted file.

Each time I tried it on my other computer with a HDD and it has no corrupted files and never has an issue.

 

What kind of error message(s) or indicators do you get when it crashes?

And is L4D2 the only thing that crashes, or do other apps / files unrelated to L4D2 / Steam also have problems?

 

No error messages. Just a crash to the desktop. So far it seems to only be steam games, but why is it not happening on any other systems with HDD's?

 

Would it be possible for you to clone your SSD --> HDD, and see if it happens with HDD?

It would be nice to see if Steam / L4D2 was somehow mis-installed or mis-configured on that particular machine.

 

Have you tried reinstalling Steam and L4D2. And yes you will have to redownload it.