AnthonyK wrote:Hi
It has now been almost a month an I still do not have stable system based on Windows 10 Pro x64.
My machine is a V1 of the Z620 with one E5 2660 8 core Xeon and the lastest available BIOS.
One Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB as the main C:\ drive and
24 GB of DDR3 ECC memory.
Windows 10 Pro just is not stable in my case.
At the root of the issues lays the Intel ESRV_SVC_QUEENCREEK that supposedly cannot be found according to the Windows Log file.
It drives me nuts and now I have just had it with Windows 10, never had stable system in more than 30days.
So I am either now considering downgrading to 8.1 Pro or go the linux CentOS rout and install VMware workstation to run an older version of Windows 7 for office use and applications for which I really need Windows.
What do you think about my plans for a downgrade and what do you guys, gals run on your Z workstation.
Can you detail the specific instances where the system is behaving in an unstable manner? This will help troubleshooting.
Personally I am running WIn 10 Pro on the Z420 and have not encountered any problems, . Regarding switching to WIn 7 I would consider this a last resort, since this is now an old OS, for which support both fromt he hardware and software side will be dwindling.
I would try giving Win 10 Pro one more go:
- install fresh Win 10 Pro from USB in EFI mode
- see what drivers you are missing in Device Manager after isntallation and install only those ones
- turn off any power saving features in the bios,
- in Windows set power profile to Maximum Power
- turn off stuff you don't need / are not using in the bios (e.g. RAID, AMT / ME features)
The points regarding power saving features are important since the error you are getting would indicate this area as a casue for further investigation.
Regarding your SSD, I do not believe the Samsung 840 / 850 drives use any specific drivers under Windows, just the standard WIndows AHCI ones. There is the Samsung Magician software, but this is only really useful as a diagnostics / information tool and also to turn on rapid mode on some supported drives. THere is of course the question of running the latest firmwareo n the drives and Magician will also allow this to be updated.
Regarding the RAM, this is something you probably already know, but its best to run using same size, make, type memory modules, either in 4 or 8 slots (quad channel mode).