About 2-3 weeks ago I upgraded to an Samsung 500 GB EVO 850 SSD. I installed Win 10 Pro x64 on it and though it took a few tweaks to get the partition to create I got it up and going. Fast forward to last night. Suddenly Win 10 stops working. Right/left click on desktop does nothing. Every 5 seconds the screen blips and all open windows close. :bang: I can still use task manager. I retained my old image on my HDD prior to the upgrade. If I boot to that, everything works fine which leads me to rule out hardware issues with mobo, gpu, cpu, etc. I didn't see any firmware for the 850 and am going to install magician on old image and test the SSD for any bad sectors tonight. If no bad sectors I assume there is a software conflict in Win 10. Latest thing I did was upgrade Waterfox to most recent version. Not sure what else to try but am trying to avoid a full OS re-install if possible. Last resort is RMA it and start over. Any thoughts or input is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
Waterfox was updated probably a few hours prior. I cannot imagine it would host the OS as I am running same version of Waterfox on a laptop also running Win 10 but there are oddities in computing.
What kind of issues did you have setting the partition? I just replaced my 840 with an 850 as the OS drive and everything installed fine.
When you get to the screen to select a drive/partition, I couldn't install on top of unallocated space. Co-worker said that is normal but I have rebuilt countless computers running Windows 7 in my job and never had to create the partition first.
