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Clicking sounds & wacky video

rcrmb

Member
I recently moved my computer. Before moving it nothing was wrong, but since unpacking it i've encountered some problems. It was packed properly.

When I go to boot up everything seems fine until the windows profile window. Upon selecting my profile, the video turns to plaid and there are clicking noises from within my case. The computer then sounds like it boots itself back up again and again. The plaid video doesn't change or seem to turn off.

Everything looks to be secure. Again I had never had this problem before moving my computer.

CPU: Intel Pentium 4C 800mhz FSB w/HT 3000MHz @ 3300MHz

Motherboard: ASUS P4P800-Deluxe

Memory: 1024 MB of Hynix PC 3200 DDR

Video Card: ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro ATI Radeon

Hard Drive: Western Digital 120.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS / Western Digital 40GB /7200RPM's [RAID]

DVD Manufacturer & Model: LG 16xDVD /w 52x24x52 CDRW

Storage Interface: IDE,IDE-RAID,SATA,SATA-RAID,USB,FIREWIRE

Sound Card: Sound Blaster Augidy 2 ZS

Internet Connection: Broadband Cable

Operating System: Windows XP pro SP1


Other Components:
*Vantec Hot-Swap drive
*Zalman VGA Heatpipe Cooler.

Thanks in advance. Any help would be really appreciated.
 
Hard to tell from what you said. Please try to boot into
"safe mode" (Press F8 when the Windows screen appears
the first time) and see whether you can get that to work.
Since you moved, you might have crashed your hard disk...
 
Phoebus,

Thanks for the reply.

The problem actually turned out to be a power supply connector's pins were bent, causing the hard drives to shut off prematurely leaving the rest of the system hanging. It's probably due to the fact that all the shaking in the truck put stresses on this cable in particular. The problem is fixed.

 
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