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Getting a noise like my pc's about to switch off

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Wildapes

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Anyone know which hardware component would cause something like this? It's strange because it makes a noise like it's shutting down (a clicking + power down sort of noise) but nothing happens, no crashes or anything like that. It began happening when I installed Vista, actually it happened like 3x in a row in quick succession a few minutes after I installed vista. I thought for sure I would BSOD or get an error but the thing kept going on it's merry way.

I ran SP2004 within Windows XP and got a failure on CPU 1 when doing a blend test. I can't seem to get any errors when I run small FFT or memory tests by themselves. I also can't seem to reproduce it so it seems mostly random.



I wanted to add that this happens during general tasks like browsing the internet. I haven't had the time to play many PC games lately though I played Stalker for about 5 hrs straight a week ago without issue.
 
You think so? I've been using an ancient WD60 HD for the past 4-5 years or so. It's the only PC component I've kept for this long. Do you know any way I can test it to make sure?
 
There are test utilities using SMART or whatever, but I don't think they are reliable. I'd just back up everything important and wait.
 
I keep all my important stuff on a separate drive.

You know what though, I installed Vista on a partition on a totally separate drive from both so I don't think it's the hard drive. I think my CPU might just be degrading and perhaps needs more voltage. I went for a semi-suicide OC and bumped it close to 1.6v a couple of weeks ago since I'm always looking for excuses to upgrade.

I raised it to 1.557v (or thereabouts) and it seems to be stable now. It passed SP2004 and memtest anyways.
 
The sound you hear though is probably the hard drive spinning down. The CPU being overclocked shouldn't cause that. Could be some sleep setting in Vista though.
 
If it sounds like something spinning down then back up again it's almost guaranteed to be the hard drive. I have been plagued with a similar problem in 2 different systems. Both use WD JB drives that are ruffly 3 years old. 1 80GB and the other is a 120GB.

All future hard drive upgrades or new PC builds I do will have Seagate drives. Yes Seagate drives fail too, but at least they have a 5 year warranty.
 
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