nah I figured it out. Apparently I must have reset my bios somehow in the past few weeks and had a power saving feature on. It was switching off the hard drives everything 15 minutes or so. O bought some kama drive bays high CFM fans, a new chipset cooler, rewired and cleaned up my case and...
Don't enable raid. It's not needed. There should be a separate option in bios to enable the specific sata port it's pluged into (should look like "Sata 1&2, Sata 3&4 etc)
Well I said I isolated everything i could think of. I removed the sata drive, I removed the IDE drive and used a Ubuntu live cd and I'm still getting the sounds. It happens so sporadically that if I were to try and listen to where it were coming from I'd have to lie down and have my head next to...
Probably some electrical interference from somewhere. What kind of speakers are you using? Creative cards aren't exactly known for their high end audio quality.
Well you guys have been a tremendous help. Can anyone perhaps suggest a forum better acquainted with hardware troubleshooting?
I'm sorry that I sound rude but just look at the replies I've gotten so far.
I said that the diagnostics passed several times in the original post and he says my...
The corepad glass pads have the best surface but the pads are too thick with the rubber backing and stick too high up. Icemat is the second best (and what I use now)
Like I said in the above post I disconnected that drive and still get the click/spinning power up type noise. It almost sounds like when the PC comes out of suspend except I have all the power saving features turned off.
The diagnostics have all passed perfectly fine several times. The sata drive is like 1-2 years old. I need to figure out if the 60gb ide drive is defective as well since it (or something else specific to XP) causes the game to freeze during new area loads.
This is really strange. A few weeks ago I formatted and partitioned a sata drive so that I could dual boot vista and XP. After I had installed Vista on the sata drive I started to get a strange clicking noise followed by what sounded like a powering up noise, quite similar to when you first...
I have the same trouble. My vista is on F: drive. XP is on C: I had read somewhere that Vista is meant to detect the drive it's installed on as C and also also XP to detect as C. I'm not sure how to go about getting that to work properly.
Thanks, really appreciate the help. Don't think I would have thought of that. Do you know if the new SATA drive with XP will be detected as the C: drive by chance? I recently discovered some recent DosBox games I purchased absolutely need to be installed to their respective default C: locations...
C:'s is the main boot drive with XP. D's a slave drive with backup/work files and attached to the C: drive as a slave. F is a partitioned sata drive with Vista installed to it.
I want to replace the C: drive because it's failing and not have to reformat the Vista installation. At the same...
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