- Jan 23, 2016
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Hello everyone, I hope I can get some helpful advice.
My PC has two internal hard drives, one with a Linux OS (mostly use that) and one with a Windows OS, that is newer and partitioned into two parts: one with the OS and one for storage. The OSs are Linux Mint and Windows 10, if that helps.
Now, here's the problem: in the last few months I've increasingly been having a thing happen where I'm pretty sure the motherboard stops seeing any of the drives WHILE ON - that means, whatever I'm doing, the PC will start acting weird - already opened programs work (partially), but opening any other ones causes it to hang, and after a bit the screen goes black.
After pressing the Reset button, I'm greeted with the BIOS Utility, where I only see the empty(!) part of the second SSD and any external USB drives I have plugged in. Neither of the OS-carrying drives are to be found.
I usually get around this by switching the PC off and on - specifically with the Power button, not the Reset button - and then it sees the drives again and I can boot normally (after some priority rearrangement)!
This has been a thorn in my side for a good two-three months, and seems mostly(?) to happen when I'm running Linux Mint. However, I'm trying to install some updates right now and simply can't - the "event" now happens any time I try to go through with the installation.
What can I do to fix this issue, or at least what seems to cause it?
Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS HB1M-PLUS
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 @ 3.40 GHz
SSD 1: SanDisk SDSSDP128G
SSD 2: Samsung SSD QVO 1TB
My PC has two internal hard drives, one with a Linux OS (mostly use that) and one with a Windows OS, that is newer and partitioned into two parts: one with the OS and one for storage. The OSs are Linux Mint and Windows 10, if that helps.
Now, here's the problem: in the last few months I've increasingly been having a thing happen where I'm pretty sure the motherboard stops seeing any of the drives WHILE ON - that means, whatever I'm doing, the PC will start acting weird - already opened programs work (partially), but opening any other ones causes it to hang, and after a bit the screen goes black.
After pressing the Reset button, I'm greeted with the BIOS Utility, where I only see the empty(!) part of the second SSD and any external USB drives I have plugged in. Neither of the OS-carrying drives are to be found.
I usually get around this by switching the PC off and on - specifically with the Power button, not the Reset button - and then it sees the drives again and I can boot normally (after some priority rearrangement)!
This has been a thorn in my side for a good two-three months, and seems mostly(?) to happen when I'm running Linux Mint. However, I'm trying to install some updates right now and simply can't - the "event" now happens any time I try to go through with the installation.
What can I do to fix this issue, or at least what seems to cause it?
Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS HB1M-PLUS
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 @ 3.40 GHz
SSD 1: SanDisk SDSSDP128G
SSD 2: Samsung SSD QVO 1TB
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