hard drive causing system to BEEP

[pasipapo]

So I was having issues with my system where it would beep exactly 8minutes after loading into OS. Event viewer showed nothing, it wasn’t a bios beep code and msi support had no idea why it was happening, I suspected ram refresh error but again that would have signalled during post im sure.
 

anyway after replacing the ram, reseating cpu, ram and graphics card it was still happening, other than the beep the system ran fine. I started to think the mobo was doomed then I decided to unplug my HDD as my OS is on my ssd, and the beep didn’t happen. 
 

WHY IN THE HELL is my hdd causing my mobo to beep?! It caused me sooo much stress and I have a condition which is like an extreme form of OCD and not being able to figure out why it was happening was seriously messing me up. Some may laugh at this but it got to the point where I was breaking out in heavy sweats with my finger hovering over the power button scared shitless to press it. 
 

sorry for rambling but anyone have any idea why it would do that? 

[Boomwebsearch]

5 minutes ago, pasipapo said:

So I was having issues with my system where it would beep exactly 8minutes after loading into OS. Event viewer showed nothing, it wasn’t a bios beep code and msi support had no idea why it was happening, I suspected ram refresh error but again that would have signalled during post im sure.
 

anyway after replacing the ram, reseating cpu, ram and graphics card it was still happening, other than the beep the system ran fine. I started to think the mobo was doomed then I decided to unplug my HDD as my OS is on my ssd, and the beep didn’t happen. 
 

WHY IN THE HELL is my hdd causing my mobo to beep?! It caused me sooo much stress and I have a condition which is like an extreme form of OCD and not being able to figure out why it was happening was seriously messing me up. Some may laugh at this but it got to the point where I was breaking out in heavy sweats with my finger hovering over the power button scared shitless to press it. 
 

sorry for rambling but anyone have any idea why it would do that? 

 

Don't worry, I understand your concerns, could you list your system's hardware specifications (especially what motherboard and HDD are you using) and your operating system?

[pasipapo]

3 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

Don't worry, I understand your concerns, could you list your system's hardware specifications (especially what motherboard and HDD are you using) and your operating system?

Thanks for the reply!

 

my specs running on windows 10

-b450 tomahawk max

-ryzen 3700x

-Samsung 860 evo ssd OS

-Samsung 970 evo 1tb

-250gb ssd (I forget the name)

-western digital blue 1tb (this is the HDD)

-gfx 960 2gb

-crucial ballistixs 2x16gb 3200

 

 

[pasipapo]

I use 3 ssds I do a lot of editing, the hdd is just for archive so I don’t mind not having it anymore (truth be told I’m happy to take a hammer to it...)

[Boomwebsearch]

8 minutes ago, pasipapo said:

Thanks for the reply!

 

my specs running on windows 10

-b450 tomahawk max

-ryzen 3700x

-Samsung 860 evo ssd OS

-Samsung 970 evo 1tb

-250gb ssd (I forget the name)

-western digital blue 1tb (this is the HDD)

-gfx 960 2gb

-crucial ballistixs 2x16gb 3200

 

 

5 minutes ago, pasipapo said:

I use 3 ssds I do a lot of editing, the hdd is just for archive so I don’t mind not having it anymore (truth be told I’m happy to take a hammer to it...)

 

@pasipapo thank you for the additional information, are you running the SSDs and/or the HDDs in any RAID configuration, could you try updating the BIOS of your motherboard (update to version 7C02v372 if it is not already on that)?

 

 

 

Link to get the latest BIOS version for your motherboard (MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX):    https://download.msi.com/bos_exe/mb/7C02v372.zip

[pasipapo]

14 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

@pasipapo thank you for the additional information, are you running the SSDs and/or the HDDs in any RAID configuration, could you try updating the BIOS of your motherboard (update to version 7C02v372 if it is not already on that)?

 

 

 

Link to get the latest BIOS version for your motherboard (MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX):    https://download.msi.com/bos_exe/mb/7C02v372.zip

Not running anything raid, I’m running the update from a few months ago, I just noticed there is a brand new update that came out recently! I will try and update to that one.
 

Any ideas why the whole beep thing would happen with HDD? I can’t find anything on the internet about it haha

 

edit : my version is 36

[Boomwebsearch]

14 minutes ago, pasipapo said:

Not running anything raid, I’m running the update from a few months ago, I just noticed there is a brand new update that came out recently! I will try and update to that one.
 

Any ideas why the whole beep thing would happen with HDD? I can’t find anything on the internet about it haha

 

edit : my version is 36

 

Most likely it's some compatibility issue with the motherboard that can be fixed with the latest BIOS revision, please let me know if it works and if it doesn't then we can try other solutions (next would be to install WD Data Lifeguard and check the drive for issues: https://downloads.wdc.com/windlg/WinDlg_v1_37.zip).