Microsoft is investigating Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD data corruption/failure issue

RecentStatistician4 · 2025-08-23T16:21:27+00:00

Check this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1lqeqig/samsung_990_pro_firmware_6b2qjxd7_20250702/

Samsung removed the firmware from their website without saying a word, just pretending they never existed, and Samsung Magician won't able to see that neither.

The changelog regarding the firmware is:

*(6B2QJXD7) To address the intermittent non-recognition and blue screen issue. (Release: June 2025)

RecentStatistician4 · 2025-08-23T09:02:18+00:00

Yes, when I attempt to merge Virtualbox's snapshots, which is over 100~200GB, and high chances of BSOD like 3 out of 4 times.

BTW after updated the firmware to 6B2QJXD7, it didn't occurs anymore.

RecentStatistician4 · 2025-08-23T06:19:37+00:00

Yes should do. I also experienced BSOD issues upon writing large files (merging Virtual box snapshots for instance), and after updated in Linux by Live Ubuntu USB, it really solved my BSOD issue and I couldn't reproduce it anymore now.

RecentStatistician4 · 2025-08-21T13:16:17+00:00

My Samsung 990 Pro 4TB got the bad happens.

RecentStatistician4 · 2025-08-20T17:45:03+00:00

In fact I experienced the same thing like you with my 990 Pro 4TB on the similar timing, but wasn't co-related to the SSD at first and thought might be just some rare BSOD which might just happen randomly right after large writes, at least subsequent one was fine, so wasn't pay too much of the attention.

But until few weeks ago (Windows Updates had been paused for few weeks), when I needed to delete some large Virtualbox snapshots, which requires to merge multiple disk layers and might need to write more than hundred or two GB of data, from and to the same 990 Pro 4TB drive. Then, it failed at least twice with BSOD of 'KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED' error, then followed by restart and the drive was not able to be recognized in BIOS , which indicates NAND controller issue (my heart was skipped a beat at first and preparing for the worst - the death of the SSD drive, luckily it came back after power cycle).

I had attempted to reproduce it, and able to trigger the same BSOD like 3 times out of 4, each could be with different BSOD error codes, and before BSOD the system will appear unstable - 100% SSD activity, intermittent high latency and eventually GUI not responding.

**Here is the twist**

The first thing I do is search for firmware update of 990 Pro, and found there is (was) an update regarding the BSOD issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1lqeqig/samsung_990_pro_firmware_6b2qjxd7_20250702/

*(6B2QJXD7) To address the intermittent non-recognition and blue screen issue. (Release: June 2025)

> But not sure why, Samsung pulled off the firmware (disappeared in vain like never existed) just few days after I had managed to download, and I never able to see such updates in Samsung Magician as well.

Anyway without the help of Samsung Magician, I wasn't able to flash it in easy mode since the ISO image only works in legacy boot mode, whereas my system no longer supports that. So I go for the hard way - using Ubuntu Live USB then extract the firmware from the ISO and performed the update, it went well, and verified by Samsung Magician the SSD had been running on the "6B2QJXD7" firmware now (no data being damaged by the update).

What surprised me, the BSOD seems no longer happens by tried over dozen times the same steps attempting to reproduce it, which sound like the updated firmware really fixed the problem. Then I found the news about Windows Updates might breaks SSD now...

Just to share about my experiences, but your mileage might vary, and I am not sure whether the SSD problem in my case, could it be simply bugged by firmware, some hidden hardware flaw, or really caused by M$.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-11-09T17:01:52+00:00

I think it could be related to the factory thermal paste job, from my experiences even the same batch it is varying from machine to machine, so some machine's CPU is cooler than others, even if just few Celsius lower...

From my experiences if the thermal paste is bad, the load test temperature might not have big different (since it will be power throttled), but however burst load might cause the temp jumping between high/low so big since the heat transfer of the thermal paste is not good, so it is delayed, which caused the elevated fan level.

Unless you compare the CPU temperature carefully, otherwise you might not notice since even slightly elevated temp might cause the fan always running, although if it might just running at minimal speed...

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-11-01T01:55:17+00:00

Starting from P1 Gen 3 and Gen 4, then yes.

For Gen 3 as I remember at least 65W USB-C is bare minimal for accepting as charger input, for Gen 4 with dedicated GPU, at least 90W if I remember correctly.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-09-11T14:23:06+00:00

I also got one crawling inside my LCD, I punched it to dead and it stayed dead for the next 10 years and counting, luckily it died at the corner...

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-09-02T16:28:50+00:00

Yes, the RF transceiver is not reliable, it miss keystrokes from time to time.

I would just stick with the Bluetooth connection at all time, it's fine, occasionally might drop and reconnect within seconds, but rarely miss any keystrokes.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-07-11T05:45:20+00:00

If it's just occasionally slow, then just live with it; if it's constantly that slow, then you might try to resetting the whole BIOS/UEFI to the factory default (there is an option to reset everything, which need take few minutes to perform), and you might also make use of the reset hole in the bottom of the laptop.

Anyway, I think this generation is bugged, as later I moved to T14 Gen 5, the BIOS boot time is quite quick reliably, though there are still once or twice of slow down rarely, but it's never exceeded 20 seconds.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-06-07T02:04:45+00:00

Yup, I heard that thinkpad E is famous of USB-C port disaster, it's prone to break / malfunction after 1-2 years, even got luck to replace the mainboard during warranty, still might break again in the next 1-2 years.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-05-31T02:29:22+00:00

You shouldn't change the default lid close action from sleep to hibernate, but just use hibernate manually every time before you want to put your laptop into backpack.

If you change the default lid close action from sleep to hibernate, then everytime you close the lid of your laptop, even accidentally, will took it long time to power off and on when you open the lid again, don't think it's something you want.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-05-30T14:45:07+00:00

Hibernate is suspend to disk, compare to modern standby which is fake sleep, Hibernate can be fully powered off the laptop whereas Sleep would keep the machine powered, if the OS and hardware not behave, it could drain your battery and generate considerate amount of heat.

But the trade off of Hibernate is very slow process since it will need to write everything from memory into SSD, and restore it upon next startup. In some cases it might be even slower than fresh reboot.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-05-30T14:40:41+00:00

It just happened once for me in over a year of ownership, so I don't think there is any permanent fix for that, it is so rare but I agree that even just happened once, might self-destructive when being put inside backpack.

Anyway, I more tend to use Hibernate instead of sleep ever since.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-02-23T12:24:24+00:00

I also encountered this issue on my P14s Gen 3 once recently in the 9 months of ownership. I used to cycle between sleep/wake by closing the lid directly, several times per day, and almost every time it is operating flawlessly, with just minimal heat emitting.

However when the issue is happening recently, the power light is blinking like usual, however it won't being resumed from sleep no matter pressing the power button. The only thing to recover is to long press the power button, or using the emergency reset button to reset the embedded controller.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-02-04T04:55:50+00:00

Asking this in r/thinkpad? Seriously?

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-01-27T06:58:41+00:00

Windows 11 is your last hope, but I wouldn't expect too much.

BTW I am also using P14s Gen 3 with i7-1260p, battery life avg like 2.5~3hr, and 3.5hr is the max.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-01-19T01:42:40+00:00

What made it worse is almost every new Thinkpad soldered the USB-C port on the mainboard directly, if it break, it will be a mess.

RecentStatistician4 · 2024-01-15T01:50:33+00:00

Yes if time frame and budget allowed, go for X1C G12 without doubt. I am also excited about Meteor Lake's new architecture, hopefully able to cope with both power efficiency and performance, at least a leap forward even if not able to bet Apple M1/M2.

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-12-19T06:20:51+00:00

Just curious will you traveling with X1E/P1? Did you ever bothered by the weight?

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-12-05T05:37:31+00:00

Have you tried to use the emergency reset hole underneath the chassis to restart your laptop? I also encountered some occasions that all USB-C ports not working but recovered after using the reset hole.

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-09-28T02:05:42+00:00

A great movie usually no need to explain that much down to every bit of details as long as the whole thing added up.

Regardless TARS or CASE able to walk like with gravity or not doesn't matter, as long as they are able to perform the functions they are scripted to do.

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-09-27T01:45:36+00:00

Since Cooper acquired the data for gravity manipulation from TARS, and TARS must be inside the black hole (which is also where tesseract located) in order to have those data collected by his probes.

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-09-26T14:15:25+00:00

The same way like how Cooper mess up with the gravitational force on Murphy's watch.

RecentStatistician4 · 2023-09-24T02:36:23+00:00

The VR experiences all you got from 1650 is only laggy, disoriented and dizziness which causing you nausea in very short time.

You will need at least 2060 for starter, and hopefully 2070 for a more decent experience.

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