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Answer» EVERY so often my computer makes a clicking sound that is similar sound to when it shuts down, like the sound you get right at the last moment before power off. When this happens there is always a brief pause in a game I am PLAYING and then game resumes. Can anyone tell me what they think this could be? Graphics Card: Gainwood Geforce 680 4gb CPU i7 930 Factory overclocked 4.0ghz Raptor HD Mainboard Gygabyte X58A-UD3R PSu Coolermaster 700wattSwitching Power Supply might be on its way out. Sometimes when they fail they start to tick, and when they tick they have a quick voltage disruption in which the system could stay on and lock up as a result of. Usually it causes a reboot since the voltage swing is too large to keep everything running. Have you TRIED a different power supply?Quote from: DaveLembke on August 15, 2012, 08:51:42 AM Switching Power Supply might be on its way out. Sometimes when they fail they start to tick, and when they tick they have a quick voltage disruption in which the system could stay on and lock up as a result of. Usually it causes a reboot since the voltage swing is too large to keep everything running. Have you tried a different power supply? I was thinking psu myself but started to rule this out because it doesn't ever reboot. Do you think it could still be the power supply still because I was starting to think it could be the hard drive. I will CHECK the psu but do you know of a program that will fully check the hard drive aswell? I have done the usual test for bad sectors and found nothing but I want something that will give it a better test.If your drive is a seagate they have good tools that are free. Otherwise I BELIEVE the other makes should have tools for theirs as well. The tool can be burned to a CD or DVD and boot from it and then run full diagnostics that are beyond what windows has built into it. It would be interesting if its your hard drive and windows has nothing in the logs for a write failure etc in the event logs. Usually the event logs start to fill with complaints before a drive fails this way. The last drive that failed on me had 12 days of warnings before it crashed hard and no warnings on the GUI, just event log entries. Leave it to Windows to record an event multiple times that should be brought to a users attention and NOT...LOL S.M.A.R.T also didnt detect this warning which was odd. No hard drive warnings on boot and not disabled in BIOS for S.M.A.R.T reporting.I'll bet 10 Bucks the clik sound is from a monitor on it's way out... Best way to find out is borrow one overnite and see if the same thing happens or not...Quote from: DaveLembke on August 15, 2012, 11:23:41 AM If your drive is a seagate they have good tools that are free. Otherwise I believe the other makes should have tools for theirs as well. Any idea where I can get tools for a Raptor HD? @Patio - I don't believe it's the monitor because the click comes from the tower not the monitor. I don't see anything wrong at all with the monitor but what makes you think it could be this?Overclocking maybe, have you tried reverting to stock settings? |
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