(Drive disconnection) Occurs when the PC shuts down or freezes, then vanishes from the BIOS until power is restored.
(Drive disconnection) Occurs when the PC shuts down or freezes, then vanishes from the BIOS until power is restored.
Placed this in motherboards since I'm thinking it could be a motherboard issue. But anyway anyone had this happen? Its a B450m, the SSD is a Patriot Gen3 M.2 NVMe. Annoyingly I can't really play Stalker 2 right now cause it keeps happening while I'm playing, causes game/system to freeze. It has happened before outside of this game but not often, probably due to how UE5 streams in a lot of assets. It doesnt always happen constantly and I've had plenty of hours of playing the game where I was fine, but then sometimes this happening every 5 minutes as well. After PC won't boot back up into windows when restarted, but just goes straight into bios and the drive isn't there unless I unplug and do a full power cycle or weirdly unplug/plug back in some of the sata drives. Already tried updating bios, messing with the drive settings, updating chipset drivers. Nothing seems to help. Trying to at least narrow down if its the motherboard, ssd, ram, psu or cpu. Saw someone saying it could be bad voltages from 3.3v on psu or something. I'm assuming it could be a faulty mobo most likely but I guess ram and cpu also could cause this, or the drive itself being faulty. Speeds seem fine in crystaldiskmark and weirdly that doesnt cause it to disconnect. I guess good thing to note is that I dont think it happens on other drives of mine, I just dont have another ssd that fits this game, just another smaller one. And oh yeah the drive in question is the system drive, but I dont think it almost ever happens in normal desktop use.
Are you using an Asus board? Do you possess a battery tester or a multimeter/voltmeter for checking the CMOS battery? I've encountered this issue with Asus AM4 boards where the battery falls to 2.9V or lower.
It's a gigabyte, but that's a solid idea—something I hadn't considered before. I own a multimeter, though I'm not sure if it'll help much. Maybe I should just swap the battery and check. It's totally doable since I haven't replaced it and it's an older board.
Checked the battery level—it wasn't low, so that wasn't the issue. Frequent occurrences prompted me to re-seat the CPU, re-paste the RAM, reset the CMOS, and unplug another drive. So far, the problem hasn't returned, though we'll monitor it. It's unclear what might be causing it. On a side note, Stalker 2 is quite CPU-intensive, so overclocking my old 1600 significantly improved frame rates. Disabling the XMP profile also boosted performance, indicating the game relies heavily on RAM speed.