Mac Pro Won't Sleep

Hello all:
I've been having an ongoing situation with my Mac Pro. I hear the boot drive spin down at the time I've set in Energy Saver, only to hear it spin back up after about 30 seconds. Then it repeats at the same interval again and again. I've tried changing Energy Saver Sleep settings numerous times, including default. I've made sure nothing is running when I leave the machine. I've ejected and disconnected all hard drives & peripherals except the keyboard & mouse (they're standard Apple devices). I've checked the drive in Disk Utility with my bootup disc--it checks out fine.
It will sleep, but only about 50% of the time. The only way I can guarantee Sleep is to physically set the machine in the Apple dropdown.
I've had people tell me my boot drive may be failing, but I can't see any sign of it doing so--no clicking or other noises, no lengthy access times, etc. In any event, replacing the drive sounds like an expensive shotgun approach with no guarantee of success.
I'm stumped. Is there anyone who has had this problem and solved it?

I never ever set internal drives to spin down when not in use.
And don't "eject" internal drives. That is for external drives.
And now I have an SSD for the system. Silence no matter what.
Spotlight. TimeMachine. Network. Activity Monitor.
You really might want to do a quick clean install of the OS somewhere else and don't install anything else.
And without knowing what is in your driver extensions and background processes and launched on startup but all of those.
And it won't do it on Safe Boot of course.
You are running.... Lion? Mountain Lion? on a Mac Pro 3,1? other?

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