So I have 3 problems that have been going on for a while now.
1. My PC sometimes takes a number of minutes to power off after windows has shutdown. This will appear to happen in a couple different ways. Most of the time everything will appear to shutdown like normal but once the screens go black (but continue to stay on displaying a black screen) all the fans and lights of my computer will stay on for a few minutes and, sometimes over night. Occasionally it will shutdown in a normal amount of time, with the screens staying on while black for less than 10 seconds.
2. Sometimes when I boot my PC it will take a while to load windows while showing the logo and the spinning dots.
3. Today I opened my PC up to physically disconnect and reconnect my secondary internal HDD. I ended up disconnecting and reconnecting both of them while switching the SATA cables that were connected to them. After doing that I booted the PC up and it took about 5 minutes to boot to the windows login screen.
I still can't see my HDD after doing this. Before I turned the PC off I had 2 disk drives in device manager but now I only have one. The last time I stopped seeing my second HDD it was after a couple reboots that I lost access to the data.
I am Comptia A+ Certified but I haven't used any of that knowledge in a couple years.
1. My PC sometimes takes a number of minutes to power off after windows has shutdown. This will appear to happen in a couple different ways. Most of the time everything will appear to shutdown like normal but once the screens go black (but continue to stay on displaying a black screen) all the fans and lights of my computer will stay on for a few minutes and, sometimes over night. Occasionally it will shutdown in a normal amount of time, with the screens staying on while black for less than 10 seconds.
2. Sometimes when I boot my PC it will take a while to load windows while showing the logo and the spinning dots.
3. Today I opened my PC up to physically disconnect and reconnect my secondary internal HDD. I ended up disconnecting and reconnecting both of them while switching the SATA cables that were connected to them. After doing that I booted the PC up and it took about 5 minutes to boot to the windows login screen.
I still can't see my HDD after doing this. Before I turned the PC off I had 2 disk drives in device manager but now I only have one. The last time I stopped seeing my second HDD it was after a couple reboots that I lost access to the data.
I am Comptia A+ Certified but I haven't used any of that knowledge in a couple years.