Odd computer problem

KYREDP5

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02.5 Classic Red P5
Ok, I have a problem that I'm having trouble pinning down.

System:
Antec Super Lanboy Case
Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum Mobo
Athlon XP 2800+
Powercolor Radeon 9800se
3 60gig Maxtors (2 in raid 0)
2 40 Gig WDs (in raid 0)
Zalman Heatpipe VGA Cooler
Kingwin Copper CPU cooler
Samsung DVD-RW
Lite-On DVD
Ultra X-Connect 500w PSU.

Symptom:
Computer will every minute or two it will make a click sound (sound like is is the PSU clicking off, except quiter), however I recently replaced the PSU and it sill does it. When it clicks it will momentarily hang, it will still take mouse movment, yet will not take mouse input, and only seems to happen when browsing the web, etc. I've never had it happen when gaming.

Anyone got any ideas as to what it could be?
 
It's onboard RAID controller, and no other symptoms show. All my games are on my raid volume, yet it doesn't click during any games.
 
I agree - sounds like hard drive related. Check your "power options" in the control panel and make sure they're not "hibernating" or something.
 
If it's only happening when you use a certain hard drive, then yeah it's the hdd. Clicking could be from the spinning motor kicking in. Does this happen when you haven't accessed the drive for a while? If not and this happens all the time, then it could be the hard drive's controller arm having problems. And if that thing fails, it's bye bye data on your hard drive. Not much you can do in this situation but get a new hard drive...

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Please go into more detail on the issue. With a system setup like yours it could be several different things. But just from what you said it sounds like it might be a specific HDD having issues reading/writing to itself.

Does this happen only when accessing a specific HDD. You said it happens when your on the internet, so which HDD is your browser on? What are you doing on the net? videos, music?

Are your games located on a different HDD than your browser? More detail please!
 
Yes games are on my RAID array (E:) and my browser is on the regular IDE Channel. It doesn't do it at any regular intervals. Some time it will make one click, sometimes it will make two. To describe the sound it's like popping the freshness seal on a bottle of snapple, or something simmilar. Seems to be coming from the front right side of the case, I recently (after the clicking started) moved my primary HD to a diffrent bay, with no change in the sound.

The sound is really to random to track down exactly where is is coming from, sometime it will be 2 minutes between, sometime it will go hours without doing it.
 
AndrewF150 said:
Ok, next question. Does this happen when you are accessing and using anything else on HDD your browser is on?

No, it doesn't seem to.
 
agree with the hard drive, mine click all the time though

go to control panel, power options and turn the hard disks to always on and see if that fixes it

sounds like the drive powers down and then hangs and clicks when it powers back up to be accessed again
 
Nextruss said:
how many watts is your power supply? That's a lot of HDs!

500W :D

Hard disks are already set to to always on.

As long as it lasts untill I get my tax refund. :D
 
i have 6 250gig WD drives running off a 430watt enermax so power should be fine unless the power supply is overrating its power

mine will freeze if i turn on the black light though:(
 
MOST power supply's are over rated in their wattage.

look on the back of it and tell us what it says on the 12v and 5v lines.

that may be a seperate issue though, because it really sounds like a HD issue to me.
 
Specifications and features

Connectors
  • 1x 20-Pin Main Power
  • 1x 6-Pin AUX (Xeon) Power
  • 1x 4-Pin 12V (P4)
  • 6x 4-Pin Peripheral
  • 1x Floppy
Features


  • High-Gloss Mirror Finish
  • Modular Cable Connection System
  • UV Reactive Shielded Cables
  • Dual 80mm Fans
  • Low Acoustic Noise
  • [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Power Protections[/font]: [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Short Circuit, In-rush Current, Thermal Overload, Over-Temperature, Over-Voltage,Over-Current, Under-Voltage[/font]
  • Power efficiency : 70% (max.) at full load.
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Output[/font] <table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td rowspan="2" width="100">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Max Output
Current
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</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]+5v[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]+3.3v[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]+12v[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-5v[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-12v[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]+5VSB[/font]​
</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]32A[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]20A[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]28A[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]0.6A[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]0.6A[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2A[/font]​
</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td rowspan="3" width="100">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Max Cobined
Wattage
[/font]
</td> <td colspan="2">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]180W[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]336W[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3W[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]7.2W[/font]​
</td> <td width="50">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]10W[/font]​
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]480W[/font]​
</td> <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]20W[/font]​
</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="6" bgcolor="#ffffff">
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]500W[/font]​
</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Total Output Power[/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
500W (Full Load, Nominal Input Voltage)
[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Efficiency
70% Typical at Full Load and Nominal Input Voltage
[/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Input[/font]
<table bgcolor="#000000" border="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td>[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AC Input Voltage[/font]</td> <td>[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]115v / 230v[/font]</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td>[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AC Input Frequency[/font]</td> <td>[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]50-60Hz[/font]</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td valign="top">[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AC Input Current[/font]</td> <td>[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8.5A (RMS) for 115VAC Input
5.5A (RMS) for 230VAC Input
[/font]</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
 
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