I’m with you on this one, klepp0906.
My OS is freshly installed and obsessively clean and free of any extras whatsoever.
I was able to get rid of this problem only once, with a somehow perfect combination of official EFI update from Asus + right RST drivers.
As I said, disabling sleep on my spare drive is not much of a problem, but I’d love to solve the soft-lock annoyance nonetheless.
I appreciate all of your efforts to dig deeper into this and followed each one of them closely as you posted.
As I said, I suspect the culprit might even lie in one of the many Windows updates of the past year or so (been on my new system for a year now and have seen three or four OS installations).
I can tell you for sure that enabling/disabling the services installed by the RST package changed absolutely nothing on my system.
Please keep us posted on any of your findings. I’ve been pulling my hair on this for quite some time now.
Well i cant say for sure as far as exact timeframe, im old - have toddlers - things go fast n loose around here BUT sometime around the 15.xx series when microsoft (or intel?) cut off any version prior from working, is right around when it happened.
Of course with fernando’s signing you can at least get around that.
Still, id love to be on the current driver.
It has something to do with APM. where the fault lay, got me. I would love to be able to just set sleep to "never" and get on with it. Unfortunately with 13 of the 10TB barracuda pro’s, i just cant. Ive thought about it several times though.
I’ll for sure post back if i stumble upon the fix. I thought for sure I had it a few times. doh.