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Blue Screen of Death on Certain NVMe SSDs During High I/O Operations
Windows 10 May 2024 Update Causes Blue Screen of Death on Certain NVMe SSDs During High I/O Operations. How to fix?
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Hi Fsdsdmmd, that kind of BSOD during heavy NVMe activity usually points either to the storage driver/firmware path or to a Windows update exposing an existing drive/controller issue. I would start by checking the exact stop code from the blue screen or Reliability Monitor, then update the NVMe SSD firmware, chipset/storage controller driver, and BIOS directly from the PC or motherboard vendor rather than only through Windows Update.
If it started right after a specific cumulative update, you can also test by uninstalling that update temporarily and seeing whether the crashes stop. If you have minidump files under C:\Windows\Minidump, opening one in WinDbg Preview can usually tell you whether the crash is coming from the NVMe driver, storage stack, or something else. I would also run the SSD vendor's health tool, because high I/O crashes can be an early warning sign of firmware or drive health trouble.