h2l :
It works... I flipped the red switch on the back of the power supply to 230V or whatever, and now it works. What did I have it on before? I don't get it...
It works?
I am getting a similar clicking sound. When clicking it does not show up on Windows. The problems started when my legs got tangled in my earphone and I pulled it so hard my front audio panel does not work anymore.
I guess after that I had my OS crash
I reinstalled on another hard drive.
After many months I got this clicking sound where it would stop showing up on windows.
It show constantly on the bios.
Then I tried something I would go to device manager and click on "scan for hardware changes" It would come back.
It would be there until I restarted my computer. Rather kept my computer shut down for a while.
Its like if the Harddisk kind of stops then it takes a while a lot clicking sound to show up again.(it shows only if "Scan hardisk is clicked".
Of late even that does not work. It takes a long time. Infact for the last week I was not able to use the hard drive.
I had got an external hard drive and was shifting stuff.
Right now I clicked "scan for hardware" and got my harddrive back and I copied one drive another drive is being copied as I type.
In between it stopped detecting. I hit "scan hardware" and it came back. Thankfully MiniTools Partition Wizard continued Copying(wow software really rocks).
Now my question is is this a power Issue?
I tried switching power cables ports everything but to no avail.
Right now my other working Harddisk is on Sata port 1(where this used to be).
For some reason my Xaamp Server won't start. Its like the hard drive is not accesible.
But my windows keeps running does not crash.
So Am not sure if its a Xaamp problem. Or does my hard drive go dead.
So I am not sure if its a Port problem. But asking anyone opinions.
If it was a port problem then my bad hard disk should have started working.
But maybe the port is what made my harddisk bad.
I tried all tools The hard disk are seagate.
I checked for errors in Seagate tools and almost all famous HDD tools. When the hard drive is detected it show no errors at all.
Both hard drives.
So now since I took a back what I want to know is, that is there any way to salvage this bad harddrive with a Low level format.
Or is this a port/power cable problem(when I yanked my computer really hard).
Is this is a problem with my Motherboard.
can yanking the audio cable really hard affect the mother board ports?(I am trying to imagine if this is physically possible). I know my front audio ports don't work. I think I have some problem with my USB ports)
But do I have to change my motherboard?
Or is this a SMPS problem. Maybe its not taking the load.