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I have a PC with Windows 11 (I had windows 10 and updated when it came out the 11) and it frequently get unusable because of very long freezes. After investigating for a while it seems that the problem is stornvme.sys driver for NVM Express Controller. I tested with LatencyMon and that has very high DPC counts and very high Total Execution.

From Task manager I see all the time high CPU usage from "System interrupts".

I tried to update the driver but it seems the one I have is the latest (from 2006?) but I'm not sure.

I wanted to try update the BIOS but it's not available for my notebook with Windows 11 (only Windows 10 uff!). It seems the fault is due to stupid Windows 11 but I don't want to go back to Windows 10 because it's a big mess with all the files. Any idea?

tulo
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I have the exact same issue, it only happens with my Intel p600 SSD. It also only seems to begin when the SSD thermal throttles.

After the SSD is finished writing or reading, it should cool down again, but I get bombarded with system interrupts making a single core of the CPU go full throttle and somehow the entire OS begins stuttering more and more until it locks up and requires force shutdown. The SSD doens't cool down and stays at 70 degrees constantly even without any disk activity while the stornvme.sys is doing the system interrupt bombing.

Have you found a solution? It only happens on Windows 11 for me (23H2, I now have build 22631.5262). Linux and Windows 10 are completely fine with the SSD so it's not a hardware issue, this is a bug in Windows 11.

The date 2006 is because it's like most drivers, from Vista. I'd use an NVME driver from Intel or some other manufacturer but I can't find any. My current only solution is using Linux, and if I need to use Windows, don't put load on the SSD so the temperature stays down. I don't have a thermal pad which shouldn't be a huge deal if it didn't cause system crash.

Foxyz
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