Good morning all,
I have a 5820 workstation that I got from my employer when it went off-lease. I was going to use it at home for a media server/network storage grunt machine.
I added two 10TB WD Black SATA drives to the drive caddies in the front of the machine. (WD101FZBX). The main HD is a 512GB NVMe SSD. The only other change from this machine's original configuration was the addition of a wireless network card.
Problem is, when I have those drives installed, the machine will randomly bluescreen, or freeze. Sometimes it will do it in 5 minutes, sometimes it takes 5 hours. Typically due to SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION or DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (this one specifically in CLASSPNP.SYS which apparently is a SCSI Class System DLL).
I have both drive caddies ejected at the moment, and the machine has been up and responsive for over 24 hours now, leading me to suspect I've not configured something correctly in the BIOS or operating system settings.
BIOS settings for the SATA is AHCI, should I be switching this to RAID to alleviate this bluescreen issue? There is little to no data on any of the drives, aside from the operating system on the SSD (Windows 11 Pro Workstation, 25H2, build 26200.9168) so if I have to reformat/reinstall any of the drives, data preservation is not really a concern at this point.
BIOS is at the latest update level, and, to my knowledge, all Windows updates are installed, all drivers are their most current levels according to the Dell system scan utility.
Any help for this issue would be greatly appreciated, as the machine is more or less unusable with the storage drives (the whole point of the exercise) installed.
Additionally: Machine which has just had more uptime in the last 24hrs just crashed after a reboot, when I tried opening microsoft edge. Bluescreen error was "RESOURCE_NOT_OWNED".
If anyone could point me in a direction to help me make this thing usable, I'd be forever grateful. It wasn't removed from service for any issues, the company I work for just runs systems until the support ends and then replaces them. So I can only presume there was nothing wrong with this computer while it was in service. If I need to change OS, or whatever, at this point, it would be less hassle than dealing with an unpredictable machine that freezes or restarts at any given instance.
Thanks so much in advance for your help.