MP 1,1-5,1 Windows 11 crashing with NVMe switched card

[flyproductions]

I have a NVMe card from Aliexpress, which seems to be some kind of HighPoint 7101a clone, runnig in my 5,1 (see picture)

Card works perfectly fine in macOS with nice performance, as one would expect from the "original".

But in Windows 11, as soon as 4 blades are mounted to the card, i get repeated "USB overcurrent"-error messages after booting and within 30 seconds or so Windows just crashes with a blue screen. With only 2 blades mounted, Windows runs fine without any issues. Of course with the SSDs not beeing usable as they only have Mac volumes on them.

Anybody experienced similar with a HighPoint or any solutions known? Thanks in advance.

 

[tsialex]

This is card is definitively not a clone, maybe you can say that it's design is inspired by the SSD7101A-1.

My SSD7101A-1 works perfectly with four blades with macOS/Windows/Linux, never had any troubles.

 

[avro707]

I have a NVMe card from Aliexpress, which seems to be some kind of HighPoint 7101a clone, runnig in my 5,1 (see picture)

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Card works perfectly fine in macOS with nice performance, as one would expect from the "original".

But in Windows 11, as soon as 4 blades are mounted to the card, i get repeated "USB overcurrent"-error messages after booting and within 30 seconds or so Windows just crashes with a blue screen. With only 2 blades mounted, Windows runs fine without any issues. Of course with the SSDs not beeing usable as they only have Mac volumes on them.

Anybody experienced similar with a HighPoint or any solutions known? Thanks in advance.

I had a highpoint card (still got it in the box) and experienced endless crashes even under MacOS. Aside from that the fan noise was screeching loud.

The fix for the high point was ordering the Sonnet card which was costly but runs very reliably for windows 11. Also silent.

 

[flyproductions]

This is card is definitively not a clone, maybe you can say that it's design is inspired by the SSD7101A-1.

Yes, PCB-layout looks somehow identical.

My SSD7101A-1 works perfectly with four blades with macOS/Windows/Linux, never had any troubles.

Can a raid, setup for macOS, cause any issues? There are two of the blades, setup as raid 0 for Mac. These were the two i removed for testing. With them removed theproblem disappeared.

On the card are two 1TB 970 EVO plus (running in raid) and two 2TB 980 PRO, running as single disk each. With the 970s removed, windows doesn't crash anymore. Also, as far as i remember, problems started with some Windows update.

 

[tsialex]

Can a raid, setup for macOS, cause any issues?

Never tested booting Windows 11 with a AppleRAID present. Anyway, it's easy enough to nuke the blades and test to see if changes anything.

 

[flyproductions]

Aside from that the fan noise was screeching loud.

First thing i did, was removing this fan.

As the 5,1's PCIe-fan blows directly into the card's heatsink from the back, this does not seem to cause any problems. These are the temps of the SSDs idling with an ambient of about 25ºC:

Even with looping Blackmagic for about 15 minutes, the 980s don't exceed 60 degrees. The 970s get a bit warmer.

With macOS i have no issues at all and never had any. Used the card with High Sierra for over a year and now Monterey for the last 6 months.

 

[flyproductions]

it's a test easy enough to nuke the blades and test to see if changes anything.

So i will give this a try and report back.

 

[flyproductions]

Yes!

Just dumped the raid and reformatted the blades as single disks: Problem is gone! This i'm writing from Win 11, running smooth without hassles. Very strange!

Edit: Setup another raid with the two 970 EVOs. With Softraid instead of DiskUtility this time. So the strange error message reappeared. But Windows doesn't crash anymore.

 

[flyproductions]

So now, as Windows seems to run fine so far, even with the error, a nasty fix to make the message disappear is to just turn off Explorer notifications. But i'm still looking for a somehow more "elegant" way. Is there some setting which can be made, to make Windows completely ignore the card, as there is nothing Windows-usable on it? I tried to uninstall the four instances of "generic NVMe-controller" in device manager. But this didn't do the job. Message still pops up.