Internal hard drives disappear after waking from sleep mode

UberTiger · 18 Dec 2010 at 11:46

Got an SSD boot and 4 spindles and none of the spindles show up after waking from sleep.

Takes a restart to see them again, a quick google suggests a bios issue maybe?

Running a P6T SE, AHCI, Win 7 64bit.

Any ideas?

unp|dissy · 18 Dec 2010 at 13:48

Either that or windows spins them down to save power, and fails to spin em back up again?

DragonQ · 18 Dec 2010 at 14:10

Chipset drivers maybe?

ms2010 · 18 Dec 2010 at 14:53

Found this post is another forum

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1567-63-windows-hard-drives-disappear-sleep-resume

rwpritchett (on tomshardware forum) said:
I finally found a HOTFIX that took care of my problem.

It mention's a microsoft hotfix for a similar problem too yours

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977178/#top

Article ID: 977178 said:
When you resume a computer from sleep or from hibernation, the SATA hard disk drivers require the SATA hard disks to be ready within 10 seconds. However, a large SATA hard disk may take longer than 10 seconds to be ready. In this situation, the resume operation times out.

The hotfix is about a year old and hotfix's usually get rolled into windows updates,(*EDIT* the BIG ones called Service Packs is what i meant. Thx DragonO for the correction

) but as it sounds so close to your problem it maybe worth a try.

DragonQ · 18 Dec 2010 at 15:21

Most hotfixes actually only make their way into service packs, not Windows Update.

ms2010 · 18 Dec 2010 at 15:45

DragonQ said:
Most hotfixes actually only make their way into service packs, not Windows Update.

Your right , thats what I mean't to say , still using Vista myself and not familiar with service pack releases on Window's 7

Thanks for the correction

UberTiger · 18 Dec 2010 at 17:04

Sweet! That hotfix seemed to sort it! Nice!

Please enjoy this Christmas cookie with some milk as a token of my gratitude.

ms2010 · 18 Dec 2010 at 17:08

hmmm milk and cookies yum yum

Glad its sorted m8

UberTiger · 21 Dec 2010 at 20:17

Doh, now my computer doesn't go to sleep automatically

Set to go off after 30 mins which is handy when I leave it doing a task it'll then sleep, now it just seems to stay on no matter what.

ms2010 · 21 Dec 2010 at 21:50

Does it attempt to goto sleep and then wake up right away? or just not enter sleep at all?

You might need to go into Device Manager and adjust the Power Management on some devices e.g. LAN card , so they can't wake the machine up

[TBR]MadMark · 22 Dec 2010 at 10:18

Had this problem on my dads pc, it can be fixed by installing the intel storage manager software.