Harddrives "Turn off" Randomly

[NicolaiA]

Motherboard - ASUS Z97 PRO WIFI AC.

 

I installed all latest drivers, installed all updates on windows.

 

While I'm playing games 3 of my harddrives turns off and "Vanishes" from the computer.

 

While this occurs, which it does ALOT.

 

 

I can't reboot pc, it just stucks itself waiting for the harddrives.

 

 

I have 3 Seagates, and 1 WD.

 

And one SSD.

 

What can I do?

[UnknownEngineer]

In the advanced power settings for windows there is an option to stop them from going to sleep. 

Control panel > Power options > Change plan option (which ever plan you have selected) > Change advanced power settings > hard disk > Turn off after: never. DONE

It seems like a long process, but you are literally just pressing a single button to make the change.

[NicolaiA]

I've already done that

 

The harddrives still vanish.

 

And I have to force-reboot it.

[NicolaiA]

I've already done that

 

The harddrives still vanish.

 

And I have to force-reboot it.

I updated to newest bios 2012 today.

[UnknownEngineer]

Could there be a similar option in the BIOS itself?

If there isn't then there is nothing I can do to help, also you can edit posts instead of posting twice.

[NicolaiA]

I've tried everything, this has only occured on my brand new Asus motherboard

[Guest DollarPC]

Ima ganna say you can't put seagate and WD together...

[marioo1182]

Run a Linux distro and see if the same thing happens.

[GoldSrc]

You could also instead of rebooting, disconnect and connect the power cables of the hard drives, it's annoying but most of the time it works.

It could be a faulty power cable.

[RandomTechnologyGuy]

Reboot, disconnect the drives and boot without them connected, then boot again with them connected and see if it fixes it, if not try a different power cable or sata cable, is it the drive just turning off or could it just be the sata cable or aren't you sure?