Very Stange Problem...

[KickboXer692]

*sigh* I have a very strange problem, Ok it all started about 3 months ago when i had two hard drives installed. I noticed that one of the two drives started clicking,Thinking that it was on its way to death (haha) i took it out of my case.I then put in a diffrent hard drive(so i then had two drives again.), Everything was fine for a few days as i recall...Then(not long after) BOTH of my drives started clicking...WTF!!.

So i take both of my drives out. Bought a Brand New 60Gig Maxtor harddrive that i just installed two days ago, all was fine untill last night grrrr!!!. the drive started clicking upon start up and shut down (just like the other drives) though they progressionaly got worse and clicked more often.

What in the crap is going on here???

why are my drives clicking and whatnot??:frown:

 

[mechBgon]

Failing power supply or motherboard perhaps. Specs?

 

[KickboXer692]

Thanks for the quick Reply. =)

Gigabyte Ga-7Va mobo
1.7Ghz amd athlon xp cpu
512mb DDR Ram
Nvidia geforce 4Ti 4200
Win Xp pro

The power supply is only 200Watts max..dunno if that matters or not.

 

[Harvey]

I think mechBgon is heading you in the right direction. If the power supply or controller on the motherboard is flakey, it could cause the noises.

Just to stop you before you spend again, test your drives on another system to see if they have problems, there. You can add any other drive as a slave to an existing setup. If you have any good diagnostics, you may want to run a check on your drives. However, if the problem is in the motherboard or power supply, you may get misleading results from those tests.

The only problem you could encounter is if you're running Win 98, and your main drive is partitioned, in which case, you'd screw up the order of the drives because of their naming system. Even then, it wouldn't be a problem unless Windows was expecting to find something it needed to boot on the other partitions.

 

[KickboXer692]

Originally posted by: Harvey
I think mechBgon is heading you in the right direction. If the power supply or controller on the motherboard is flakey, it could cause the noises.

Just to stop you before you spend again, test your drives on another system to see if they have problems, there. You can add any other drive as a slave to an existing setup. If you have any good diagnostics, you may want to run a check on your drives. However, if the problem is in the motherboard or power supply, you may get misleading results from those tests.

The only problem you could encounter is if you're running Win 98, and your main drive is partitioned, in which case, you'd screw up the order of the drives because of their naming system. Even then, it wouldn't be a problem unless Windows was expecting to find something it needed to boot on the other partitions.

Ok, I would think that the problem would have to be my motherboard or power supply. Seeing how my brand new drive is already clicking.

Is it actually hurting my hard drive? or is the noise i hear just annoying if the motherboard or PS is the colpurt??.

But ya, i'm going to run my drive in a diffrent computer when i get the chance. to still if it is in the mobo or ps

 

[mechBgon]

200W is pretty skimpy in my opinion. If you're looking to get a new unit, here's one to think about: 375W Enermax, $55. I'm assuming your case can take standard ATX power supplies?

 

[KickboXer692]

Ya it can.... thanks i've been looking towards getting a new case and PS altogether i need them badly

ya 200 watts is crap. i'm surprised my computer even runs off of that. lol

But anyway is it gonna hurt my computer any to keep running it if its just the ps?

cause honestly i don't think its the drives...

 

[KickboXer692]

So if i get a new Power Supply...will my drives work normally again?? if it was just the PS causing the problem.

 

[Jeff7]

You can also download Everest and let it check the drive's SMART output.
Download and install the program. Under its Storage Section is an icon for SMART. Under that, right-click on the drive in question, select Copy, and paste the results back here.

 

[KickboXer692]

--------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003, 2004 Lavalys, Inc. ]-----------------------------------------------------------

Version EVEREST v1.51.195
Homepage http://www.lavalys.com/
Report Type Quick Report
Computer SEAN
Generator Me
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail)
Date 2004-12-13
Time 23:59


--------[ SMART ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ Maxtor 6Y060L0 (Y2A8Q0YE) ]

03 Spin Up Time 63 252 252 1381 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 253 253 12 OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 63 253 253 0 OK: Value is normal
06 Read Channel Margin 100 253 253 0 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 0 253 252 0 OK: Always passing
08 Seek Time Performance 187 247 246 45388 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 253 253 3610 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 157 252 252 0 OK: Value is normal
0B Calibration Retry Count 223 253 252 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 253 253 14 OK: Always passing
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 253 253 36 OK: Always passing
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 253 252 527 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 199 199 0 OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 0 253 252 0 OK: Always passing
C9 <vendor-specific> 0 253 252 8 OK: Always passing
CA <vendor-specific> 0 253 252 0 OK: Always passing
CB <vendor-specific> 180 253 252 0 OK: Value is normal
CC <vendor-specific> 0 253 252 0 OK: Always passing
CD <vendor-specific> 0 253 252 0 OK: Always passing
CF <vendor-specific> 0 252 252 0 OK: Always passing
D0 <vendor-specific> 0 252 252 0 OK: Always passing
D1 <vendor-specific> 0 191 191 0 OK: Always passing
63 <vendor-specific> 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
64 <vendor-specific> 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing
65 <vendor-specific> 0 253 253 0 OK: Always passing


--------[ Debug - PCI ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

B00 D00 F00: VIA VT8377 Apollo KT400 Chipset - System Controller

Offset 00: 06 11 89 31 06 00 30 22 00 00 00 06 00 08 00 00
Offset 10: 08 00 00 D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 00 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 40: 00 19 88 80 82 44 01 00 11 19 88 80 82 44 00 00
Offset 50: C0 00 00 00 60 85 20 20 0E 00 00 00 20 20 20 20
Offset 60: 00 AA 00 20 A6 99 00 14 C8 2D 43 D0 41 C8 00 00
Offset 70: 82 C8 00 01 01 01 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 02
Offset 80: 0F 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 03 00 06 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset A0: 02 C0 20 00 17 02 00 1F 14 03 00 1F 21 98 10 00
Offset B0: 7F 9B 00 9B 24 00 00 00 A8 00 00 00 00 00 00 8E
Offset C0: 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset D0: 17 A3 69 EA 0F 1C F1 19 21 FF 00 00 21 32 74 00
Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 FF 01 00 9A 77 00 9A 00 9A 20 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00

B00 D01 F00: VIA VT8377 Apollo KT400 Chipset - AGP Controller

Offset 00: 06 11 68 B1 07 01 30 22 00 00 04 06 00 00 01 00
Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 F0 00 00 00
Offset 20: 00 E8 F0 E9 00 D8 F0 E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset 40: 81 C0 88 44 24 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 01 00 02 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D0D F00: Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet Adapter

Offset 00: EC 10 39 81 05 00 90 02 10 00 00 02 00 80 00 00
Offset 10: 01 D0 00 00 00 00 00 EA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 10 39 81
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 01 20 40
Offset 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 50: 01 00 C2 F7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D10 F00: VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

Offset 00: 06 11 38 30 07 00 10 02 80 00 03 0C 08 20 80 00
Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 01 D4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 01 00 00
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Offset 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 01 00 C2 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D10 F01: VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

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Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 01 D8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 02 00 00
Offset 40: 40 12 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 01 00 C2 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D10 F02: VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

Offset 00: 06 11 38 30 07 00 10 02 80 00 03 0C 08 20 80 00
Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 01 DC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 03 00 00
Offset 40: 40 10 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 01 00 C2 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset C0: 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D10 F03: VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller

Offset 00: 06 11 04 31 07 00 10 02 82 20 03 0C 08 20 00 00
Offset 10: 00 10 00 EA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 04 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 04 00 00
Offset 40: 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 80 10 00 09 00 00 00 00
Offset 50: 00 5A 00 80 00 00 00 00 04 0B 88 88 53 88 00 00
Offset 60: 20 20 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0
Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 01 00 C2 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D11 F00: VIA VT8233A/VT8235 PCI-ISA Bridge

Offset 00: 06 11 77 31 87 00 10 02 00 00 01 06 00 00 80 00
Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 14 01 50
Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 40: 44 00 F8 0B 00 00 00 00 0C 20 00 00 44 00 08 08
Offset 50: 81 0D 09 00 00 00 22 00 43 80 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 00 00 F0 40 00 00 08 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 58 14 01 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00
Offset 80: 20 84 59 00 BA 30 00 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 08 00 88 B4 4C 08 00 00 00 AA 00 00 00 00 00
Offset A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset C0: 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 4C 00 C0 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D11 F01: VIA VT82C571 IDE Controller

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Offset 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset 30: 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 01 00 00
Offset 40: 0B F2 09 05 18 1C C0 00 20 20 20 20 FF 00 B6 B6
Offset 50: F6 17 17 F0 0C 03 00 00 A8 A8 A8 A8 00 00 00 00
Offset 60: 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 70: 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset 80: 58 E9 3D 02 00 00 00 00 C8 E9 33 02 00 00 00 00
Offset 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B00 D11 F05: VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller

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Offset 10: 01 E4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

B01 D00 F00: nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 Video Adapter

Offset 00: DE 10 51 02 07 00 B0 02 A2 00 00 03 00 F8 00 00
Offset 10: 00 00 00 E8 08 00 00 D8 08 00 00 E0 00 00 00 00
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Offset F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


--------[ Debug - Video BIOS ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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C000:0100 ....PCIR..Q.........t.......GeForce4 Ti 4400....................
C000:0140 .............................................Version 4.25.00.27W
C000:0180 P7 ...Copyright (C) 1996-2002 NVIDIA Corp....NV25 Board.........
C000:01C0 ................Chip Rev ...................n..z..y..t..i..a..
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[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: KickboXer692
Ya it can.... thanks i've been looking towards getting a new case and PS altogether i need them badly

ya 200 watts is crap. i'm surprised my computer even runs off of that. lol

But anyway is it gonna hurt my computer any to keep running it if its just the ps?

cause honestly i don't think its the drives...

If the drives are getting their guts slapped around by the PSU's struggle to keep its head above water, they could certainly be damaged by that situation. If you have to wait a while before you can afford to replace the PSU, then I suggest using just one hard drive and lowering the CPU's bus speed from 133MHz to 100MHz to ease up on the power consumption. Kinda like discovering your car has only two of its five quarts of oil in the engine... you drive slowly until you can get it properly filled up.

 

[Jeff7]

Huh, no read/write/seek errors there, and no reallocated sector counts either.

I don't know what that Hardware ECC Recovered number means; every Maxtor drive I've seen lists a number of those errors, so I assume that they're normal.

So according to the drive, it's behaving normally. Yeah, do check out that power supply. I had a Western Digital drive act up once, and it turned out that my Deer 300W wasn't able to put out enough power for everything in the system. Antec 430W for me now. Those buggers put out a lot of juice - I've got one powering a 5-HDD nForce2 system right now, with no problems at all.

 

[KickboXer692]

ok thanks for the help guys =)