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Jim Pooley
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Posted - 2010.07.07 20:06:00 -
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I thought I would ask here as there are many in Eve who know a lot about the inner workings of the pc!
Just today my pc has started to make a "clicking" noise.It doesn't do it continuously, just a few seconds at a time, it sounds a bit like a switch constantly clicking on and off in half second intervals. I havent established a pattern of when it happens, it appears randomn. I have the case side off to see if it helps me pinpoint the source, it isn't a sticking fan, this I now know.
This points to two options. The psu, or one of my hard drives. I lean towards the hd as the psu is reasonably new, and a corsair so really should not be dying, that and the noise *seems* to come from the hard drive bay.
So, is one of my hard drives about to die, and can I do anything, a check or diagnostic of some sort, to establish if one of my hard drives are about to pop?
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Xanos Blackpaw
Amarr
Inadeptus Mechanicus
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Posted - 2010.07.07 21:32:00 -
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I had that problem. My cpu fan was loose
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Zeredek
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Vanguard Venture
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Posted - 2010.07.07 21:43:00 -
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 Originally by: Xanos Blackpaw
Tau - Yeah we suck in close combat. To bad you will never get there. For the greater good!!
Deep strike?
Originally by: CCP Soundwave
Shady deals? IN MY EVE ONLINE? I don't believe it.
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Vak'ran
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Posted - 2010.07.07 21:57:00 -
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prolly a hard drive, use a tool that can read the health info on the drive as a start, speedfan can do it. Hard disk sentinel is another decent drive status tool.
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Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.07.07 22:50:00 -
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It's probably your hard drive. Take the side off your case and listen, you'll know pretty much immediately when it starts again.
Make a backup of your drive with windows backup before you do anything else. Most drive manufacturers have diagnostics you can download, and like the above poster mentioned, speedfan is good for that too.
If your drive does fail but you can get your machine to at least acknowledge that it is plugged in, Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional will recover 99% of your data if not all of it.
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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Vogue
Skynet Nexus
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Posted - 2010.07.07 23:30:00 -
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Download Diskcheckup Its freeware. Hard disks have something called 'SMART' info. In Configuration enable 'Record SMART attributes for TEC computation'. Have this utillity running in the background.
People go on about keeping CPU's cool. Which is important. But hard disks overheating is an issue too. Ideally have an enhusiast PC case that has a fan on the hard disks.
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Jim Pooley
The Bobtheminer Appreciation Society
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Posted - 2010.07.08 07:54:00 -
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Edited by: Jim Pooley on 08/07/2010 07:54:10
Thanks for the replies so far, they have been as welcome as they were useful.
I have taken the side cover off, and I am pretty sure the noise was coming from the hard disks. As for which, I cannot tell. I installed the programs mentioned and will monitor the situation. An interesting point is that in SpeedFan, hard disk 0 is significantly higher temp than hd 1. Looking in my case, I think I can adjust their positions to improve the air flow around them and perhaps reduce the temp. Whether this is too late to save the disk, I dont know!
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Jim Pooley
The Bobtheminer Appreciation Society
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Posted - 2010.07.08 08:11:00 -
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Quick update.
I have relocated the hard drives and the temperature is now lower. I have also backed up the hd's critical data on to an external drive, and will watch for ant developments.
As for the logs that the disk checkup software keeps, can I empty thses occasionally as it warned me the file could significantly grow.
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Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2010.07.08 08:18:00 -
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1. goto start > run
2. type "eventvwr"
3. select System
4. Look for red error icons and see if any of them are related to disk.
5. If you've found a couple, your HDD is dying.
6. Go out, replace it asap before failure becomes worse.
P.S I went through a couple of HDDs this way, never had a catastrophic failure with data loss. The ample warning gave me plenty of time to fix it pro-actively. |
Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.07.08 12:45:00 -
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Once your hard drive is starting to go, you're not going to be able to save it unfortunately. It'll run for a bit, but it will just die out of the blue on of these days, I would give it a month if it's making clicking noises.
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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Jim Pooley
The Bobtheminer Appreciation Society
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Posted - 2010.07.08 13:28:00 -
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Originally by: Sturmwolke
1. goto start > run
2. type "eventvwr"
3. select System
4. Look for red error icons and see if any of them are related to disk.
5. If you've found a couple, your HDD is dying.
6. Go out, replace it asap before failure becomes worse.
P.S I went through a couple of HDDs this way, never had a catastrophic failure with data loss. The ample warning gave me plenty of time to fix it pro-actively.
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2" and "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR3" is logged many times, though weirdly in March.
There none afterwards, the only errors I got today were :
The KService hung on starting.
The TBPanel service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
The NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D driver service has reported an invalid current state 0.
If any of that is relevant I would like to know! The last disk warning was March. The plot thickens!
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