Drives don't show.

[Eric Kazer]

Drives:

Pioneer Blue Ray drive D:

Samsung 980 1TB M.2 SSD C:

WD Blue SSD 1TB shows SanDisk SSD G5 BICS4 G:

Samsung 870 Evo 2 TB J:

Samsung 870 Evo 2 TB K:

 

After I power off my PC for the night and power it on the next day drives J and K won't show in the BIOS or the OS. After I drain the mainboard of power by turning off the power switch at the PSU I can get the drives to show. I wonder if I have a bad SATA controller on the main board. Also I get motor or seeking noises from the optical drive.

 

As far as I can see the Drives that work all of the time are plugged in to 4 and 5, port 4 being WD blue SSD and port 5 being optical drive. Port 2 2nd 3 are my Samsung 870 Evo drives, The ones that have issues not showing in the BIOS or OS.

 

Do I have a configuration problem, or hardware issue?

 

[Qtheking]

the optical drive will make noise, its a mechanical part. The Drives shouldn't be disappearing though, it's most likely a problem with your power supply or out of date bios. If you know, what kind of motherboard do you have?

[Eric Kazer]

Gigabyte B460M DS3H V2 motherboard. RM 650X PSU. BIOS F23a, BIOS date 10-05-2021. Latest on Gigabyte web sight F23, See web sight. F23 newer. Capsule BIOS, can not be reversed. I downloaded it.

[Eric Kazer]

Did BIOS update and had hard time finding setting to boot Windows 11. Turn out incorrect boot device was selected. SanDisk was selected instead of 980 Evo 1 TB in BIOS. BIOS updates suck, Well that and booting Windows 11 with a vanilla BIOS.

 

Checks in Windows:

DRAM Frequency = 1596.2MHz

tpm msc. ready for use

Secure Boot On

Windows 11 boots

[Eric Kazer]

Drives j and k didn't show again. WTF.