Having problems with every HDD I connect to my PC

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Hello guys, this is my first post and i have been having a lot of troubles with all my HDD's since i changed my mobo.
When i´m on the internet, watching a movie or whatever, my pc runs fine, it started lagging a bit sometimes, but the real problem is that when I enter a game, the disc kinda "disconnects" from my pc (I can see that the LED HDD activity indicator stops blinking), then it connects again for a few seconds and so on, until it freezes or I close the game. If I close the game it keeps running normal.

I have tried with many different hard drives, 2 IDE's and 2 SATA's, all of them with the same result, so it's no a disk issue. I'm thinking that it might be a chipset failure as the mobo is 3 years old.
If I run the game in the lowest quality and in a low resolution it works for a few more seconds, but after 10 minutes approximately my computer freezes.

My gear right now is:
Motherboard: Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB 3
Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 620
RAM: 2X2GB Corsair Value Select 1333mhz
PSU: Vitsuba Master San Colosa 55-s (12v dual rail of 20A)
Video Card: XFX AMD Radeon HD 6770
Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500gb

Hope you can help me, and thanks.
 
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Would agree^. Get that PSU replaced ASAP. Get a good quality 550w PSU from Seasonic Antec Corsair XFX would be your best bet. The clicking sound is the hard drive powering down and back up do to lack of enough power. If you are lucky you have not damaged the hard drive yet.

71460

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Do you think so? The hard drive even clicks when it is put under load. The clicking may be caused by the not proper energy?
 
Would agree^. Get that PSU replaced ASAP. Get a good quality 550w PSU from Seasonic Antec Corsair XFX would be your best bet. The clicking sound is the hard drive powering down and back up do to lack of enough power. If you are lucky you have not damaged the hard drive yet.
 
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popatim

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Although a poor power supply could cause damage, a hardddrive is far from likely to load a psu enough to cause issues to only the harddrive.

Use windows error checking with both options enabled to scan your drives for errors. You can also use a boot disk to scan for bad sectors, such as Hirens Boot disk which has several harddrive testing tools.