Popping Noises??

[gnomie]

I have just put together a new computer and ever since my harddrive makes these "popping noises". I assume this is the hard drive booting or something because it is the same noise it makes when I first turn on the computer and always has when I had it in my older computer. The "pops" come when I try to access my cd drive in windows, this is followed by a lockup. >< It seems like my computer has trouble running two IDE devices at once. What would cause this?<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by gnomie on 02/26/04 11:07 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[marneus]

Are the drives on the same cable ??? try running on 2 seperate cables...

Trust me I know what I'm doing... ooops, grab the cat...

 

[gnomie]

No they are on different cables, when I try running my cd drive, my hard drive starts rebooting or shutting on and off, don't know what it's called, it causes windows to lock up.

 

[solemndave]

Got the "popping" noise too. Random. It's only a Windows audio popping sound, btw. I had the rebooting thing happen today too, for the first time. wtf??? Scanned everything, all ok. Unplugged all my other drives, booted from c:\ , and it booted, no problem. Re-hooked up the other drives, booted again and lo and be-hold re-boot with no problems...wtf? Billy Gatessss et. al. are doing some heavy ****, my man. They should drop the drugs./;';';';';'lllll Or maybe we should all be doing the same ones so we all know wtf is going on.

 

[lunch186]

I am guessing it is a virus? Does anyone know? HELP

 

[aford10]

There could be a bad sector on the HD. When windows touches that part of the platter, it skips causing the lockup.

I had this problem on a HD a few years ago. It bricked on me not long after the noise started. I would recommend getting your data off the drive and replacing it.