night_2004
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Right in the middle of the the night my PC intermittently started to have RAID failures with drives dropping. Now this morning I wake up to a blue screen after an attempted rebuild event and the motherboard only detects drives maybe 1/5 boots. We aren't talking about one drive, but all four. When it is detected and I boot Acronis up to restore my data (because the RAID failures borked my data) from a server backup...well...after 10 minutes the drives drop out again.
Checking to see if cold or warm boots impact the chance to detect the drives too; I just started troubleshooting 15 minutes ago so I'm not entirely sure what the full story is.
I've got a solid power supply (Seasonic X750) and four WD drives (three of them relatively new). I recently had to replace my UPS (old and now dead) with a new APC unit but while troubleshooting I'm running the desktop off of a wall outlet.
The only drives the computer is detecting are my two optical drives on SATA0 and SATA1 (6Gbps ports). Going to try and switch around some cables in a minute here to see if the 3Gbps ports are the problem.
Not sure what other troubleshooting steps I can perform? I suspect the board is the problem here (but given Intel's P67 troubles in the past maybe there's a problem with Z68 I don't know about?) and not the drives or PSU. Not sure though.
Checking to see if cold or warm boots impact the chance to detect the drives too; I just started troubleshooting 15 minutes ago so I'm not entirely sure what the full story is.
I've got a solid power supply (Seasonic X750) and four WD drives (three of them relatively new). I recently had to replace my UPS (old and now dead) with a new APC unit but while troubleshooting I'm running the desktop off of a wall outlet.
The only drives the computer is detecting are my two optical drives on SATA0 and SATA1 (6Gbps ports). Going to try and switch around some cables in a minute here to see if the 3Gbps ports are the problem.
Not sure what other troubleshooting steps I can perform? I suspect the board is the problem here (but given Intel's P67 troubles in the past maybe there's a problem with Z68 I don't know about?) and not the drives or PSU. Not sure though.