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Nicholas Baker
The noise sounds very much like a hard drive clacking and after
experimenting with the fans and listening closely to them the noise does not
seem to be coming from a fan.
....just for interests sake... I had 4 front case LEDs and one LED went out
and I found a loose Molex connector wire. After I pushed it into the rear of
the molex connector the front case LED that went out came on again. I may
have another loose molex wire somewhere but I don't think so and I will
check.
The noise disappears after 15 seconds. It really sounds more like a hard
drive noise.
I have 2 Sata1, (not Sata2), hard drives 80GB each and the same model
installed in an Asrock775V88+ computer and the PSU is a Thermaltake...and I
hopefully will remember not to buy a Thermaltake PSU again....it was cheap.
I have thought to install SMART software and will someone recommend a SMART
software so I could perhaps inspect the hard drives.
I did format the hard drives with Seagate's Disk Wizard from a bootable CD
before I installed Windows XP Home Edition.
Previously I installed a Sata RAID card and RAID1 'd the 2 Sata hard drives.
The raid card began emitting sparks from the motherboard PCI slot
synchronizing with each loud clacking noise...would you believe it! And
there was a lot of sparks each time there was a clack!
Anyhow, I removed the card and this noise has developed. I am sure the noise
was not there straight after Windows XP Home Edition SP2 was installed.
It is possible the motherboard is damaged because I left a motherboard mount
beneath the motherboard and the PSU blew up...initially it blew sparks out
the rear when I switched it on but dumb me reckoned because the computer
worked I should just let it work and so for another 5 or 6 times I switched
the computer on with heavy sparks shooting out the back of the PSU and that
was very scary.... I had a new PSU before this new noise started.
Before I buy a new motherboard I would like to sort out the noise. I had
replaced the Sata hard drive I used in the RAID1 array with another I had
after I formatted the system with Disk Wizard and reinstalled Windows XP.
....lol...please have pity on me...you needn't...
experimenting with the fans and listening closely to them the noise does not
seem to be coming from a fan.
....just for interests sake... I had 4 front case LEDs and one LED went out
and I found a loose Molex connector wire. After I pushed it into the rear of
the molex connector the front case LED that went out came on again. I may
have another loose molex wire somewhere but I don't think so and I will
check.
The noise disappears after 15 seconds. It really sounds more like a hard
drive noise.
I have 2 Sata1, (not Sata2), hard drives 80GB each and the same model
installed in an Asrock775V88+ computer and the PSU is a Thermaltake...and I
hopefully will remember not to buy a Thermaltake PSU again....it was cheap.
I have thought to install SMART software and will someone recommend a SMART
software so I could perhaps inspect the hard drives.
I did format the hard drives with Seagate's Disk Wizard from a bootable CD
before I installed Windows XP Home Edition.
Previously I installed a Sata RAID card and RAID1 'd the 2 Sata hard drives.
The raid card began emitting sparks from the motherboard PCI slot
synchronizing with each loud clacking noise...would you believe it! And
there was a lot of sparks each time there was a clack!
Anyhow, I removed the card and this noise has developed. I am sure the noise
was not there straight after Windows XP Home Edition SP2 was installed.
It is possible the motherboard is damaged because I left a motherboard mount
beneath the motherboard and the PSU blew up...initially it blew sparks out
the rear when I switched it on but dumb me reckoned because the computer
worked I should just let it work and so for another 5 or 6 times I switched
the computer on with heavy sparks shooting out the back of the PSU and that
was very scary.... I had a new PSU before this new noise started.
Before I buy a new motherboard I would like to sort out the noise. I had
replaced the Sata hard drive I used in the RAID1 array with another I had
after I formatted the system with Disk Wizard and reinstalled Windows XP.
....lol...please have pity on me...you needn't...