Hey everyone,
I'll make this as short as possible.
Setup:
Mobo: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x
GPU: EVGA RTX 3060
PSU: Corsair SF750 Platinum
Storage: Crucial MX500 250Gb
Storage: Samsung 970 PRO 512Gb
Storage: Toshiba MG08 6TB
The problems:
Several, various, but the main one is i bought a new HDD in December of last year that is now not working properly. It's constantly disconnecting with a loud beep, sometimes not even under any load (like when i was installing Windows on an SSD while the HDD wasn't engaged in the process at all).
Some context:
Like i said, i bought it in December of last year.
All was working fine at first. At the time i was running a different CPU and mobo. (Ryzen 7 2700x and Asrock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/ac). Same PSU, not a singe issue with it whatsoever.
Then in January, i made an upgrade and changed the CPU and mobo to the ones listed above.
It was still working fine at first. Enough that now it's not clear if the upgrade was the immediate cause of the problem. About two weeks after the upgrade it started disconnecting.
Sometimes it would hang up the system all together to the point where i couldn't even restart it.
I also have a backup 1 Tb drive. I tried connecting that and it's not working properly either. When connected it's clicking and keeps disconnecting as well. Now it is pretty old, so i can't be 100% sure that's in just the HDD that's at fault.
I have tried running both of these HDDs on a different PC and they seemed to work fine. I tried opening stuff on it, copying huge amounts for large periods of time and it wasn't an issue.
I have also tried swapping the cables, both sata and power.
Besides this problem the computer works fine-ish. I could game on it for hours with no problems, off of the Toshiba HDD no less and it hadn't disconnected once.I stress tested both the CPU and the GPU several times.I also managed to edit and finish a video project on it. There was an issue where the render would stall half way and both the CPU and the GPU utilization would drop to zero and it would do nothing pretty much, although that could be a Premiere issue.T here's also a slight problem in that i can't use FanControl anymore because it just won't launch, same as Gigabyte's own software for controlling RGB, which isn't a big deal of course, but it just makes me more suspicious that there's something wrong with the board.
CPU can't affect the PC in this sort of way, can it?
Would really appreciate some input on this.
Thank you.
UPDATE: I can't believe it, but between the three new things i got in the upgrade, it might have been the case that's the problem all along. It's an SFF case, DAN A4-H20, which has a PSU cable extension, and i must have been off by one contact or something when putting the cable in, but i pretty much just reconnected everything and it's been fine for the past couple days. I'm still wary and on the look out, but it seems to be fine. I also wiped the OS drive clean and installed the stock official build off of Microsoft's site which also fixed a couple issues, like the FanControl not launching (reinstalling Windows was a separate measure and was done after the disconnecting had already stopped. I'm 90% positive it was the case cable that was causing the issue.)
UPDATE 2: The issue's back. Decided to get an external box to try and rule out PSU.
I'll make this as short as possible.
Setup:
Mobo: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX
CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x
GPU: EVGA RTX 3060
PSU: Corsair SF750 Platinum
Storage: Crucial MX500 250Gb
Storage: Samsung 970 PRO 512Gb
Storage: Toshiba MG08 6TB
The problems:
Several, various, but the main one is i bought a new HDD in December of last year that is now not working properly. It's constantly disconnecting with a loud beep, sometimes not even under any load (like when i was installing Windows on an SSD while the HDD wasn't engaged in the process at all).
Some context:
Like i said, i bought it in December of last year.
All was working fine at first. At the time i was running a different CPU and mobo. (Ryzen 7 2700x and Asrock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/ac). Same PSU, not a singe issue with it whatsoever.
Then in January, i made an upgrade and changed the CPU and mobo to the ones listed above.
It was still working fine at first. Enough that now it's not clear if the upgrade was the immediate cause of the problem. About two weeks after the upgrade it started disconnecting.
Sometimes it would hang up the system all together to the point where i couldn't even restart it.
I also have a backup 1 Tb drive. I tried connecting that and it's not working properly either. When connected it's clicking and keeps disconnecting as well. Now it is pretty old, so i can't be 100% sure that's in just the HDD that's at fault.
I have tried running both of these HDDs on a different PC and they seemed to work fine. I tried opening stuff on it, copying huge amounts for large periods of time and it wasn't an issue.
I have also tried swapping the cables, both sata and power.
Besides this problem the computer works fine-ish. I could game on it for hours with no problems, off of the Toshiba HDD no less and it hadn't disconnected once.I stress tested both the CPU and the GPU several times.I also managed to edit and finish a video project on it. There was an issue where the render would stall half way and both the CPU and the GPU utilization would drop to zero and it would do nothing pretty much, although that could be a Premiere issue.T here's also a slight problem in that i can't use FanControl anymore because it just won't launch, same as Gigabyte's own software for controlling RGB, which isn't a big deal of course, but it just makes me more suspicious that there's something wrong with the board.
CPU can't affect the PC in this sort of way, can it?
Would really appreciate some input on this.
Thank you.
UPDATE: I can't believe it, but between the three new things i got in the upgrade, it might have been the case that's the problem all along. It's an SFF case, DAN A4-H20, which has a PSU cable extension, and i must have been off by one contact or something when putting the cable in, but i pretty much just reconnected everything and it's been fine for the past couple days. I'm still wary and on the look out, but it seems to be fine. I also wiped the OS drive clean and installed the stock official build off of Microsoft's site which also fixed a couple issues, like the FanControl not launching (reinstalling Windows was a separate measure and was done after the disconnecting had already stopped. I'm 90% positive it was the case cable that was causing the issue.)
UPDATE 2: The issue's back. Decided to get an external box to try and rule out PSU.
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