Hello everybody,
I'll make this real short. A week ago I was playing WoW out of boredom, not a demanding game. During the game my display went black and I had to restart. Afterwards my old Hitachi 250GB was clicking. I can watch any movie or youtube video still, do any task, but too much will cause the clicking to get more frequent. When I play any game the display turns black, and a fan in the computer gets really loud.
With my GPU fans on max, this fan gets much louder than the GPU. It's very hard to isolate what fan does it.
I went and got a new HDD. A SeaGate GoDesk 1TB USB 3.0. It works with SATA, too. After installing the GPU drivers, the hard drive itself made this exact same noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9i5yixsJbk
I went and swapped the GoDesk 1TB for another and I'm having the exact same problem with that one. Either it was dropped which I suspect if may have been, and it's another faulty HDD, or it's my PSU doing this. If I attempt to play a game on the new HDD, all that will happen is my PC will freeze, and the HDD will start beeping like this. There were no loud fans, just beeping and freezing, and sometimes the display which warrants a restart.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to know if this is just 3 bad HDDs or my PSU/GPU...
All temperatures are fine, CPU has new thermal paste. The PSU is a 700W and is only a year old.
I'll make this real short. A week ago I was playing WoW out of boredom, not a demanding game. During the game my display went black and I had to restart. Afterwards my old Hitachi 250GB was clicking. I can watch any movie or youtube video still, do any task, but too much will cause the clicking to get more frequent. When I play any game the display turns black, and a fan in the computer gets really loud.
With my GPU fans on max, this fan gets much louder than the GPU. It's very hard to isolate what fan does it.
I went and got a new HDD. A SeaGate GoDesk 1TB USB 3.0. It works with SATA, too. After installing the GPU drivers, the hard drive itself made this exact same noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9i5yixsJbk
I went and swapped the GoDesk 1TB for another and I'm having the exact same problem with that one. Either it was dropped which I suspect if may have been, and it's another faulty HDD, or it's my PSU doing this. If I attempt to play a game on the new HDD, all that will happen is my PC will freeze, and the HDD will start beeping like this. There were no loud fans, just beeping and freezing, and sometimes the display which warrants a restart.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to know if this is just 3 bad HDDs or my PSU/GPU...
All temperatures are fine, CPU has new thermal paste. The PSU is a 700W and is only a year old.