Losing second hard drive

[TheBiggmann]

Hey i recently put in a second hard drive and had no problems until I decided to start putting my computer on standby when I'm gonna leave it for a while. Now, when I resume operation on it my second hard drive isn't showing up. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

 

[TheBiggmann]

Update: I just checked the device manager and it says the device cannot start. Could I be overloading my psu maybe? I have no idea why it's doing this. I didn't even put it into standby this time I don't think.

 

[TheBiggmann]

Bump

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I've dropped hard drives before due to a PSU issue before, but it was never limited to a specific thing, such as coming from stand by in your case. WHat hardware (PSU, CPU, mobo, other devices). Also, are you OCing this system?

 

[TheBiggmann]

PSU: 450 watt Fortron
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
MOBO: ASUS M2n SLI Deluxe
GPU: 7900 GT w/Zalman VF900
Sound Card: Audigy 4 I think
2nd HDD: Seagate Baracuda 500 Gig
It doesn't just do it out of standby, I thought it did but it will just lose it at random times. It never did this before, it worked great for the first few weeks. Let me know if you need anything else.

 

[TheBiggmann]

^Bump^

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

That sounds exactly like my issues before, albeit I was a bigger PSU and more hard drives. Do you have an UPS on the system? I fixed my situation by upping the PSU power and getting and UPS. I went from a 600w PSU to running two PSUs, one 600w and one 500w--not saying that is what you should do, but that's how I fixed my situation.

 

[TheBiggmann]

UPS? What do you mean?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: TheBiggmann
UPS? What do you mean?

Uninterruptible Power Supply. Like these at Newegg.

 

[TheBiggmann]

Ahhh, I do. I have an APC Back-UPS ES 750

 

[TheBiggmann]

So do you really think my PSU isn't enough to support this system? It's like totally random when it does and doesn't work, or so it seems now. It's worked fine the last few days, don't know whats up.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: TheBiggmann
So do you really think my PSU isn't enough to support this system? It's like totally random when it does and doesn't work, or so it seems now. It's worked fine the last few days, don't know whats up.

That is the first thing that comes to mind. It could be a bad PSU (bad units happen to every manufacturer). Also, if you haven't tried yet, I'd swap out the data and power cables to the drive that is dropping--that is an easy and cheap fix. It may or may not be an issue, but it is the easiest to try.

Intermitten problems like this are always such a pain to diagnose.