Seagate SATA drive is giving me problems

[Hanzou]

So my first 120Gb Seagate drive gave me the same problems. I RMA'd it and I have the same problems so I know its not the drive thats faulty but something on my system.

So my problem is that everyting seems fine with the drive until I play a games such as HL@ or BF2. I am running a Nforce 2 Ultra board and I have the drivers for the Silicon Image 3112 SATARaid installed correctly. Windows detects the drive and I have it formatted and have music and such on the drive. When I am just doing things around windows evertrhing seems perfect whether I am surfing the net or copying 5GB files onto it.

The problems arise when I start to play games. The drive is sending out a beep every 2 seconds, not a clicking sound but more of a beep. It kind of sounds like the beep your computer makes when it boots up and starts doing all the POST stuff. Now when I play a game, at random intervals roughly every 30 seconds I will get a 2-5 second freeze where the game wont respond. When that happens you can hear the drive making one steady click. Since both drives are doing this I am thinking it is not the drives that are faulty. I have tried reinstalling the drivers numerous times and nothing works.

Last thing to know is that this drive only holds my saved data like MP3's and movies so that when playing a game the drive should not be accessed at all and that when I disconnect the SATA cable from the mobo, everything works smooth.

Sorry for this being so long but could I get any help?

Edit: Here is a picture of my device manager. Anything wrong?

 

[Jotho]

Try disabling the Windows Indexing Service. I've read it can cause stutters at times. Otherwise, I can't help I love my Seagate

 

[Hanzou]

Where can I disable the indexing service? Under the properties of my Seagate drive I have disable tagged queuing and disable synchronous transfers. i will try disabling those and see if it does anything.

 

[Hanzou]

bump

 

[furballi]

Do a search for SERVICES. launch the SERVICES application and look for Indexing Service. Right click on it and select PROPERTIES. Now DISABLE this item.

 

[Hanzou]

So the indexing was already disabled so that didnt work. I also went and disabled the tagged queuing and synchronous transfers but none of that worked. Any other ideas? Does my picture posted above of the device manager look correct?

 

[Hanzou]

any other ideas?

 

[nineball9]

I had Seagate SATA drives beeping on my system too. I even put a signal tracer across the case speaker to make sure it was not beeping instead of the drives. Sometimes I would see an event in the system log but not always.

Turned out to be the SATA cables - they looked fine - but were defective in my case. According to PC mfgr, the cables I had used 2 pieces of plastic for the SATA connector, and the pieces occationally became separated.

edit: in addition to the SATA data cables, I replaced the power cables too. Replacements were all sent under warranty, so I changed 'em both.
Good luck!