- Jun 29, 2017
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Hi,
So I built this PC several years ago but this problem has been an issue since day 1. There are two issues and one of them i'm not so sure is an issue.
The first thing that you should know is that since day one, the hard drive makes a chirp every time it stops spinning. After googling it a few years back it was attributed as just something these cheaper end WD hard drives do. And noticeable delay when exploring files and folders to get it spinning again.
Second is, sometimes, after a seemingly random amount of usage, the case will beep one time and the hard drive will chirp once indicating it stopped spinning.
When the case beeps, the computer will run very slow, windows (not the OS) may stop responding for 30 seconds or so, and any folder exploration gets slowed to a crawl. (exploring C: drive would take a minute or so to load up the folders and each subfolder as I explore. The computer will fix itself and speed up to normal speed after waiting about 5 minutes.
What do you guys think is likely the problem? A hard drive issue, power supply, ram, cpu, motherboard? . I doubt it's software since this is a fresh windows 7 install (fully updated with drivers installed), and i had these same exact problems with windows 8 which was running previously. I also ran a RAM check and there were no errors there. I'm thinking it might be the hard drive or power supply. Temps also average about 40-50 C for the CPU and lower than that for everything else with basic use and installing programs.
So I built this PC several years ago but this problem has been an issue since day 1. There are two issues and one of them i'm not so sure is an issue.
The first thing that you should know is that since day one, the hard drive makes a chirp every time it stops spinning. After googling it a few years back it was attributed as just something these cheaper end WD hard drives do. And noticeable delay when exploring files and folders to get it spinning again.
Second is, sometimes, after a seemingly random amount of usage, the case will beep one time and the hard drive will chirp once indicating it stopped spinning.
When the case beeps, the computer will run very slow, windows (not the OS) may stop responding for 30 seconds or so, and any folder exploration gets slowed to a crawl. (exploring C: drive would take a minute or so to load up the folders and each subfolder as I explore. The computer will fix itself and speed up to normal speed after waiting about 5 minutes.
What do you guys think is likely the problem? A hard drive issue, power supply, ram, cpu, motherboard? . I doubt it's software since this is a fresh windows 7 install (fully updated with drivers installed), and i had these same exact problems with windows 8 which was running previously. I also ran a RAM check and there were no errors there. I'm thinking it might be the hard drive or power supply. Temps also average about 40-50 C for the CPU and lower than that for everything else with basic use and installing programs.
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