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Hardware - Support => Hard Drives and SSDs => Topic started by: Dave Adam on November 14, 2020, 07:46:54 AM
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I tried reading some of the previous post about drives, but didn't find anything that worked. If I missed one I'm sorry.
A couple of months ago I could live my computer on for weeks and my usb external hard drive would stay connected. Now if I leave it sit for any length of time I have to hard boot my computer in order to get it to work again. I feel like it is going to sleep or something, I can't even use terminal when this happens as it is all jambed up. And the restart function just goes to a blank page until I hard boot and start over.
I don't use my computer for a lot so I guess it's not an end of life thing, but it is anoying.
Any one have an idea what setting I need to change?
Thanks,
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I read on another forum that someone had a similar problem and it turned out to be a driver for their graphics card. I checked my drivers and there was a problem with my wifi driver, which I didn't care about because my computer is connected directly. I've tried fixing that driver issue, if it works I'll post and mark this solved.
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Driver didn't work, going to try
sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
Guess I'll find out tomorrow
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That didn't help either.
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trying:
add the kernel options acpi=off apm=off to the contents of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in file /etc/default/grub
Then run sudo update-grub
Finally reboot your computer.
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didn't work....next
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Sounds like it could be a hardware fault.
Can you confirm that if the PC is left without the USB drive connected that it works ok and doesn't lock up ?
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didn't work....next
realized I hadn't made the changes to grub because I didn't do as admin...trying again
Still didn't work.
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Sounds like it could be a hardware fault.
Can you confirm that if the PC is left without the USB drive connected that it works ok and doesn't lock up ?
sorry, I didn't see this, I will have to unplug the drive tonight and try, I'll let you know
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Sounds like it could be a hardware fault.
Can you confirm that if the PC is left without the USB drive connected that it works ok and doesn't lock up ?
So I unplugged the external drive overnight, and my computer didn't lock up, so I guess now I will have to look into what in the drive is causing the problem.
Thanks