well after sorting out my comp and geting it working smoothly it has devoloped a new problem.... :dry:
when im on the comp, playing games, chatting or on the internet it sometimes freezes for a few seconds, i then hear a click from a hard drive (like the sound of it turning on) and its fine again. it is really noticable when playing games and when searching throught my library on WMP. sometimes it happens frequently and other times it may not happen for a wile. i think the click is from my new Western digital HDD but im not sure. i have checked my bios setting and turned unnessesary features off.
has anyone else had the same problem?
any ideas are appreseated
regards,
KC
p.s. i know my spelling is bad so dont complane :cool:
That sounds to me like the beginning of something terminal :unsure:
I'd consider backing everything up as a precaution!
It *could* be your HDD is being powered down by your BIOS and the delay is when it has to spinup again to fetch data.
Tell your BIOS to leave it on all the time as a test.
how do i do that, what part of the bios is that in?
It'll be in power management somewhere, also check power options in Control Panel
I have a Maxtor hdd that does the same "click" as it spins down when the power options turn it off.
ive looked all through the bios and found nothing.
i dont know if this is related but sometimes (more often than not) when i turn on my pc it hangs before the windows xp logo and loading bar is displayed, when this happens i have to restart the pc and its fine :blink:
also when i play cs:s after 15 to 20 mins of playing it freezes completly and i have to restart the pc.
i didnt not have these ploblems befor my new hard drive but im not sure if it had and warrante :mad:
regards
KC
hmm it sounds like hes gonna crash soon.... :(
backup your info...
Well their is something def wrong with your hard drive have you checked all the connections and have you tried changing the cables connected to it.
Get a program to diagnose your hard drive something like seagate's seatools should be good as its free this will test it for bad sectors/clusters, if there is a fault try taking it back to were you bought it. How long have you had it? Just make sure you have a backup of what you dont want to loose...
suffered some HDD power funnies before, got a fine screwdriver and squeezed the connectors in the molex to the HDD, ensuring a solid contact.
Then the funnies went away.
below are the results from a program called disk checkup.
i have noticed recently my PSU has become noiser.... im using all the available power leads it has (its only a 300watt) and its pretty old, could that be a problem?
Drive 0 SMART enabled
IDE REGISTERS:
Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xA0
Command: 0xEC
DRIVE INFORMATION:
Serial Number: WD-WCAMD1860861
FirmWare Rev: 05.01C05
Model Number: WDC WD400BB-00JKA0
Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383 Cur Heads: 16 Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: NA Bytes per sector: NA
Gen Config: 17018 Buffer Type: 0 Buffer Size: 4096
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0 More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 66 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 0 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 78165360
Mult. Sector Stuff: 272 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 7
SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Raw Value Status Value Worst Threshold
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Raw Read Error Rate 0 OK 200 200 51
3 Spin Up Time 2583ms OK 168 168 21
4 Start/Stop Count 227 OK 100 100 0
5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 OK 200 200 140
7 Seek Error Rate 0 OK 200 200 51
9 Power On Time 552 OK 100 100 0
A Spin Retry Count 0 OK 100 100 51
B Calibration Retry Count 0 OK 100 100 51
C Power Cycle Count 195 OK 100 100 0
C2 Temperature 44 C OK 99 91 0
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 OK 200 200 0
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 OK 200 200 0
C6 Offline Scan Incorrect. Sector Count 0 OK 200 200 0
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count 0 OK 200 200 0
C8 Write Error Count 0 OK 200 200 51
If you have a spare psu then use it what spec machine you got? Just seeing if it does not have enough power also...