- Sep 28, 2001
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Hi all,
For the last couple months whenever I leave my HTPC idle for 10 or more mins approx, it freezes solid and I have to power it off. Its getting annoying. At first it would freeze but come out of it within 2 mins or so, but now it just freezes solid.
What I've tried:
1) I recently changed to a new mATX board... same issue with new board. Only changed motherboard as went with mATX Case for looks.
2) Removed all power saver options like putting hard drives to sleep, etc.
3) No screen savers
4) Formatted and Reinstalled everything fresh. Same issues.
This suggests a hardware issue and I'm leaning towards Hard Drive.
The system drive is a 80GB 7200.10 SATA Seagate drive. Now another point of info, whenever it freezes, I shut it off. If you turn it on immediately it will not boot, instead you just hear a loud clicking noise every 2-3 seconds. Since its in my entertainment center Ive been dreading taking it all out again to further investigate the noise. It sounds like a hard drive to me. The other 3 drives are all WD Greens and less than 6 mths old. The system drive is 4 or more years.
You have to wait 10-20 seconds after powering off before it will boot...and even then during the inital boot screen it hestiates for a good minute before Win 7 begins to load...something else also new.
Any ideas? Thinkin its the main drive?
For the last couple months whenever I leave my HTPC idle for 10 or more mins approx, it freezes solid and I have to power it off. Its getting annoying. At first it would freeze but come out of it within 2 mins or so, but now it just freezes solid.
What I've tried:
1) I recently changed to a new mATX board... same issue with new board. Only changed motherboard as went with mATX Case for looks.
2) Removed all power saver options like putting hard drives to sleep, etc.
3) No screen savers
4) Formatted and Reinstalled everything fresh. Same issues.
This suggests a hardware issue and I'm leaning towards Hard Drive.
The system drive is a 80GB 7200.10 SATA Seagate drive. Now another point of info, whenever it freezes, I shut it off. If you turn it on immediately it will not boot, instead you just hear a loud clicking noise every 2-3 seconds. Since its in my entertainment center Ive been dreading taking it all out again to further investigate the noise. It sounds like a hard drive to me. The other 3 drives are all WD Greens and less than 6 mths old. The system drive is 4 or more years.
You have to wait 10-20 seconds after powering off before it will boot...and even then during the inital boot screen it hestiates for a good minute before Win 7 begins to load...something else also new.
Any ideas? Thinkin its the main drive?
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