Help: PC powers off when I'm away, and boots straight to bios show no primary drive.

wilds94

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Hey guys!

I don't often post much here, but i'm a long time lurker.

If found that my computer has an issue, mainly with the primary boot SSD with Windows 7 on it.

This has been happening for about a month. The issue occurs when ever I leave my computer to go to standby, or even if the computers on and running but i'm not doing anything on it. In essence, i've never actually seen it happen.
The computer will power off and straight back into the BIOS. It will then only show the secondary SSD. I can power off the machine and power it straight back on and the primary SSD will be there, but positioned second in the boot order. When booting from the primary SSD, it loads up and everything works fine, until I leave the computer on over night.

Things i've done;

- Running CHKDSK stops at a certain percentage every time and freezes. (I've left it for 2hours or so at 1 spot).
- SeaTools for Windows S.M.A.R.T test passes, but Long Generic test causes Windows Explorer to crash (everything becomes unresponsive and eventually the task bar disappears and the BSOD to 0x0000000F4
- MiniTool Partition Home's surface test gets too the same spot every time and then finds a bad sector and then the rest of the HDD after that is read as bad, then BSOD and 0x000000F4.

Not sure where to go from here. Thinking of setting up a Bootable USB and having a look at the bad sectors from that? Can anyone help fix the issue or troubleshoot with me.

Thanks in advance <3
 

wilds94

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The computer sleeps after 20 minutes, I have a Haswel i5. I'm not exactly sure if it supports haswel sleep states but I haven't had any issues for the last 12 months of owning the PC with the exact same components. I'll check the bios in a second.

I think it is most likely related to the SSD as it will BSOD and restart to BIOS when i run any kind of test on the HDD to check the sectors?
 


You are probably right. Maybe time for a new hard drive.
 

wilds94

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I think so, but I'm also wondering if it could be a corrupted sector or corrupted system files or something? I would love to be able to check for bad sectors, then repair windows through a USB boot drive. Not sure how i'll do it, but i'll plod along for sure. Just running DRevitalize through Hiren's boot USB to check and recover poor sectors. (Not sure how well this will work seeing as its an SSD?)