Hard drive keeps spinning down :/

[GST-97]

OK, I recently built a new computer, using only the hard drives from the old system.

The problem I am having... is it will spin down the drives even though everything is set to keep them on. I will hear it park my secondary 650GB drive, which is annoying, since when I go to open some programs up, it takes a bit for it to start back up.

I even heard it park my primary Raptor once the other day when I hadn't used it for a little bit.
It is doing this in XP and Vista64, both with power settings told to keep hard drives on.

I am running an Asus P5N-E SLI (650i chipset), C2D E6320, radeon X1950pro, Sony DVDR, pioneer DVD, 36GB SATA Raptor, 160 GB WD IDE, 650GB Seagate IDE

Even now while typing this, it parked my Seagate 650GB drive, twice within 5 minutes. If I open the drive in explorer, it will spin it back up.

It is really getting on my nerves, does anybody have any ideas why it would be doing this?
Are there options I am not looking at?
In my previous experience, it will only spin down a drive if you don't use the computer at all for xx minutes, usually 20mins default or more. This is 5 minutes or less of not accessing a specific drive and it is spinning it down.

Any ideas are welcome

Thanks,
-Chris

 

[colinstu]

Check your power savings options, did it some how set it self to spin down the disks?

 

[GST-97]

I just checked them again, here is a screenshot from Vista.

 

[Mermalion]

I don't think I've ever seen one of these before but is there a bios option to spin disks down? That is the only thing I can think of , sorry.

 

[GST-97]

I had looked in the BIOS, thinking maybe there was some sort of built in power saving mode, but I couldn't find anything.

Now... last night, vista updated itself and installed a new nvidia chipset driver... and I don't remember it shutting the drive down after that.... but on XP, I have the latest drivers from Asus installed.... maybe I should find out if there is a generic 650i driver that is newer than the one on Asus' website. Not that any companies ever have problems with their drivers

-Chris