Why does my Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB crash Titanfall 3?
It's honestly ridiculous that a loading screen could trigger a full system reboot; it felt like some accidental extreme stress test. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB was hitting 7GB/s full-load reads, and the transient power spikes peaked over 8.5W, which tripped the motherboard's overcurrent protection and kicked the drive off the bus. I tried slapping on a beefier M.2 heatsink, but while temps dropped 5℃, the crashes actually happened more often—a total hardware misconception that left me frustrated. I eventually went into the BIOS, disabled ASPM power management, and forced the PCIe link power state to L0 so the voltage wouldn't dip during heavy loads. In AIDA64 storage stress tests, it ran for 2 hours straight without a single dip or reboot. I did notice my idle power draw went up by 3W after disabling ASPM, but I'll take that over a crashing PC. The drive stayed between 58-64℃. I exported all the error codes via logs to confirm the drop-out issue is gone.
