Hi,
I've been having a strange issue over the past year or so. Randomly while in windows one of my drives will not show up. Upon a reboot sometimes it shows up in the bios and sometimes it does not. My boot drive began having the same troubles over the past few months causing me to replace both drives.
The problem is that because this happens at seemingly random times I never know whether what I replaced has truly fixed the problem or not. So far I have replaced both hard drives (several times) and the Power supply. Recently I realized that the two drives that fail are always drives 2 and 4 (2 being my boot drive) Upon reboot the bios will not show either drive and the computer will obviously not boot.
This often will persist for 20 or so reboots in a row, though sometimes gets solved instantly. Since I've replaced both drives and the power supply is clearly good enough (and new) I've began thinking it may be the motherboard. Is there anyway to test to see if it is maybe a sata contoller issue, or is it possible that is my sata data cords or the processor?
My build consists of an I7 Processor, Asus P6t Motherboard 12 gigs of Corsair ram, A Gtx 460, a 800W PSU and 5 Hard drives at the moment, i have seatools and wd live diagnostics on the drives and they all pass, I also have updated the bios on the motherboard, yet the problems still persist.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Adam
I've been having a strange issue over the past year or so. Randomly while in windows one of my drives will not show up. Upon a reboot sometimes it shows up in the bios and sometimes it does not. My boot drive began having the same troubles over the past few months causing me to replace both drives.
The problem is that because this happens at seemingly random times I never know whether what I replaced has truly fixed the problem or not. So far I have replaced both hard drives (several times) and the Power supply. Recently I realized that the two drives that fail are always drives 2 and 4 (2 being my boot drive) Upon reboot the bios will not show either drive and the computer will obviously not boot.
This often will persist for 20 or so reboots in a row, though sometimes gets solved instantly. Since I've replaced both drives and the power supply is clearly good enough (and new) I've began thinking it may be the motherboard. Is there anyway to test to see if it is maybe a sata contoller issue, or is it possible that is my sata data cords or the processor?
My build consists of an I7 Processor, Asus P6t Motherboard 12 gigs of Corsair ram, A Gtx 460, a 800W PSU and 5 Hard drives at the moment, i have seatools and wd live diagnostics on the drives and they all pass, I also have updated the bios on the motherboard, yet the problems still persist.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Adam
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