Sure enough looking in " About this mac / Hardware / NVME the firmware was the problomatic" 1 B2QEXM7 ".

I don't get it why is Samsung Magician's Task Scheduler entry set to kill itself after 3 days of operation.

The Samsung Magician software facilitates easy maintenance and use of Samsung SSD products connected to a desktop or notebook computer. Then ran the registry scan in CCleaner to see if any Magician references were still left. In addition to providing information about the user s system and SSD product, Samsung Magician also supports advanced features, like SSD performance management, benchmarking for optimum performance, new firmware updates, etc.

Also deleted the Samsung folder in the app folder; cannot remember if it was in the Low or Roaming subfolder.

Samsung SSD Magician is a software tool designed by Samsung for the Windows platform. With this software, it will allow it's customers to gauge and optimize their SSD's performance and also update firmware and maximize the efficiency of Windows to work better with an SSD.

I can use the drive in windows, but when I am starting to put some load on the GPU, the drive will go to 100% and freeze the whole computer.

When I uninstalled magician, I also deleted all references to Samsung in the registry, leaving the device references alone.

So today I noticed that there is a new firmware for both the Samsung 960 PRO and 960 EVO.

The only way is a hard restart.

I realised that the firmware had to be checked as the 970 EVO's firmware in the first release from Samsung ( 1B2QEXM7 ) was causing kernel panics etc. I bought a 500gb Samsung 970 EVO on Saturday. I have 2 Samsung 960 PROs in RAID 0 so obviously I know that installing Samsung Magician to perform the update won't work since Samsung Magician does not recognize SSDs in RAID mode. Hello everyone! If it is 1 B2QEXM7 you will have problems with the blade.

About 4 days ago, I bought a new NVMe ssd (970 evo plus 250gb).

I have Win 10 (10240) installed and a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD to install. I've sent this to Samsung's Twitter account and never got a reply. Manage and maintain your Samsung Solid State Drives(SSD) in your PC with Samsung SSD Magician tool.

Here is how I updated both drives.

And they never fixed it.