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stitchmanz

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Our PC keeps breaking down. It will suddenly lock up and when you try to reboot it, it no longer recognizes the hard drives. When it happened on Sunday, I could not get it to work but the next day I reset the BIOS and it started working.

It went down again today and is still not working so I’ll try again tomorrow.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the drives disappear randomly? Any particular components I should be checking out?


Thank you very much

Jerry Van Horn
 
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I got this advice from another board and it worked, so my machine is back and running. Thank you everyone for your suggestions:

Older M4 firmwares can get hung up if the computer crashes unexpectedly. The way to get the drive to recover is to unplug the computer completely for a couple of minutes to drain the power. Then let the computer sit on the BIOS screen for about 20 minutes, this gives the drive enough time to reset. When you reboot from the BIOS, the drive should come back. You should then immediately update the firmware to keep the problem from recurring.


Jerry
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Can u take them out, plug them into an alternative PC and run Seatools on them? U need t eliminate t drives themselves as t cause of t issues before u start lookin deeper...

make sure t other PC has fully uptosate antivirus before u attach t drives incase virus or other nadty is t issue...
 
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stitchmanz

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Here are my components. The SSD drive contains the operating system and it won’t boot up since it isn’t being recognized.

Windows 7 Home premium, 64-bit.
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
SAPPHIRE 100352-2L Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10D-16GAB
Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler Compatible with latest Intel 2011/1366/1155 and AMD FM1/FM2/AM3+
Corsair Carbide Series 500R White Steel structure with molded ABS plastic accent pieces ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W ATX12V V2.3/EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
The monitor is a Samsung S27A350H

Thank you very much

Jerry
 
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stitchmanz

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I got this advice from another board and it worked, so my machine is back and running. Thank you everyone for your suggestions:

Older M4 firmwares can get hung up if the computer crashes unexpectedly. The way to get the drive to recover is to unplug the computer completely for a couple of minutes to drain the power. Then let the computer sit on the BIOS screen for about 20 minutes, this gives the drive enough time to reset. When you reboot from the BIOS, the drive should come back. You should then immediately update the firmware to keep the problem from recurring.


Jerry
 
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