[SOLVED] Hard drive continuously cycling power?

[coffeenfifa]

Product Name:	X570 AORUS ULTRA (1.x)
BIOS Ver:	F12e
Brand:	GIGABYTE
Model:	AORUS GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER™ 8G
Model:	AMD 3700X
Operating System:	Win 10 64-bit
Size:	32 GB
Power Supply:	750
Memory Part No.:	F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC

I'm having an issue for the past couple of BIOS updates on my Aorus X570 Ultra. One of my hard drives gets into a cycle of powering down and up for several minutes or hours at a time. The hard drive is an HGST HUS726060ALN610 (6TB) and I have tried three different hard drives of the same model with the same result. SMART is saying all hard drives are healthy.

I recently upgraded the BIOS to F12e hoping this would solve it, but it is still happening.

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be happening?

Thanks!

 

[CountMike]

Sorry for my late reply. I forgot to mention that this is the first thing that I tried and it didn't fix the issue.

I've now opened up the computer and changed the hard drive's SATA3 port, trying to rule out a faulty port. How common is it to have a faulty port on a mobo? I would think that a faulty cable is more likely to happen than a faulty port...

Possible only if there's a bad contact on particular SATA port, controller is same for all ports.
Other possible causes: Bad data or power cable or a bad contact on one of them.

 

[CountMike]

Product Name:	X570 AORUS ULTRA (1.x)
BIOS Ver:	F12e
Brand:	GIGABYTE
Model:	AORUS GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER™ 8G
Model:	AMD 3700X
Operating System:	Win 10 64-bit
Size:	32 GB
Power Supply:	750
Memory Part No.:	F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC

I'm having an issue for the past couple of BIOS updates on my Aorus X570 Ultra. One of my hard drives gets into a cycle of powering down and up for several minutes or hours at a time. The hard drive is an HGST HUS726060ALN610 (6TB) and I have tried three different hard drives of the same model with the same result. SMART is saying all hard drives are healthy.

I recently upgraded the BIOS to F12e hoping this would solve it, but it is still happening.

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be happening?

Thanks!

Windows ? Go to Control panel Power options and in your chosen power plan set "Turn off hard disks after" to 0.

 

[coffeenfifa]

Windows ? Go to Control panel Power options and in your chosen power plan set "Turn off hard disks after" to 0.

Sorry for my late reply. I forgot to mention that this is the first thing that I tried and it didn't fix the issue.

I've now opened up the computer and changed the hard drive's SATA3 port, trying to rule out a faulty port. How common is it to have a faulty port on a mobo? I would think that a faulty cable is more likely to happen than a faulty port...

 

[CountMike]

Sorry for my late reply. I forgot to mention that this is the first thing that I tried and it didn't fix the issue.

I've now opened up the computer and changed the hard drive's SATA3 port, trying to rule out a faulty port. How common is it to have a faulty port on a mobo? I would think that a faulty cable is more likely to happen than a faulty port...

Possible only if there's a bad contact on particular SATA port, controller is same for all ports.
Other possible causes: Bad data or power cable or a bad contact on one of them.