Hello,
First off, here are my specs of my computer:
AMD Athlon x4 465
Radeon 6850 HD 1 Gig
4 gigs Ram
Seagate 1 TB HDD
Windows 7
About 2 months ago, I was having problems with my computer. At the time, I had an old 350 gig HDD installed.. What started to happen was the harddrive would start clicking and as soon as it did, it would make doing simple things such as browsing the net, to playing games, a chore. Id go to browse the net and the harddrive would start clicking and even making a noise that sounded like a dying spaceship, and the window would freeze. It would also do the same thing when i'd play games. Play a game, the game would freeze, and then the harddrive would start making noises. I first thought that my graphics card was messing up but I checked temps, stability, ran benchmark stability tests and it didn't pick up anything..The harddrive was about 7 years old and has given me problems in the past so I guessed that it was my harddrive.
I bought a 1 TB (Which is in there currently) and installed Windows 7 fresh and with that it seemed to have fixed the problem. Everything worked fine, no sounds from the harddrive or anything. Everything was fast, no problems... On to browsing and playing games again.
WELL just last night, (2 months after the first problem with the old HDD) my screen froze while I was playing a game, and sure enough I heard the NEW harddrive clicking.. I was a bit taken back, however computers DO crash from time to time, so I restarted my computer and really thought nothing of it, started doing some browsing for a bit and sure enough the computer would become non responsive followed by the clicking in the harddrive... I restarted the computer and sure enough the computer took forever to even get to windows and the HDD was still clicking.. So once again, i'm having the same problem..
I'm starting to doubt that this problem is a harddrive problem because it's so similar if not the SAME symptoms as the last time. I did a little research and people did mention it could be a faulty power supply, in which I would understand since I have had problems with this specific power supply and brand so maybe I need to get a new one..
Anyways, anything ring a bell? Thank you in advance for taking your time to help!
~Larry~
PS: I used to post here a lot however it wouldn't let me post under the account for some reason.. =\
First off, here are my specs of my computer:
AMD Athlon x4 465
Radeon 6850 HD 1 Gig
4 gigs Ram
Seagate 1 TB HDD
Windows 7
About 2 months ago, I was having problems with my computer. At the time, I had an old 350 gig HDD installed.. What started to happen was the harddrive would start clicking and as soon as it did, it would make doing simple things such as browsing the net, to playing games, a chore. Id go to browse the net and the harddrive would start clicking and even making a noise that sounded like a dying spaceship, and the window would freeze. It would also do the same thing when i'd play games. Play a game, the game would freeze, and then the harddrive would start making noises. I first thought that my graphics card was messing up but I checked temps, stability, ran benchmark stability tests and it didn't pick up anything..The harddrive was about 7 years old and has given me problems in the past so I guessed that it was my harddrive.
I bought a 1 TB (Which is in there currently) and installed Windows 7 fresh and with that it seemed to have fixed the problem. Everything worked fine, no sounds from the harddrive or anything. Everything was fast, no problems... On to browsing and playing games again.
WELL just last night, (2 months after the first problem with the old HDD) my screen froze while I was playing a game, and sure enough I heard the NEW harddrive clicking.. I was a bit taken back, however computers DO crash from time to time, so I restarted my computer and really thought nothing of it, started doing some browsing for a bit and sure enough the computer would become non responsive followed by the clicking in the harddrive... I restarted the computer and sure enough the computer took forever to even get to windows and the HDD was still clicking.. So once again, i'm having the same problem..
I'm starting to doubt that this problem is a harddrive problem because it's so similar if not the SAME symptoms as the last time. I did a little research and people did mention it could be a faulty power supply, in which I would understand since I have had problems with this specific power supply and brand so maybe I need to get a new one..
Anyways, anything ring a bell? Thank you in advance for taking your time to help!
~Larry~
PS: I used to post here a lot however it wouldn't let me post under the account for some reason.. =\