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Kornowski

Kornowski

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Hi,

Well, I was on the phone while my computer was on and the sceensaver came on, like it does :P

and when I'd finished on the phone, I moved the mouse to turn the screensave off and it didn't do anything, so I pressed the keyboard, again didn't do anything, so I had to reset the computer.

When it tried to boot up again, it did the post boot beep about 3 times and then booted, but all this time the HDD was making a funny 'grinding' noise.

I reset it again and it'd booted fine...

What do you think this is?

My HDD about to die?
 
hmm that doesnt sound good if it was making grinding noises....your best bet it to compleatly back up everything you need to an external hard drive if you have one or to DVDs

Hasnt it made the noise since?
 
I've had issues where it doesnt resume from standby or from the screensaver/blank screen, but usually a restart fixes it with out any grinding noise.
 
No, I know, I just wanted some people's opinions.

I don't have any movies and such, just music, college work and photographs, I'll back them up then.

Nope, Hasn't done it since, but I don't want it to now start up next time I come to go on it, you know.
 
[-0MEGA-];615562 said:
I've had issues where it doesnt resume from standby or from the screensaver/blank screen, but usually a restart fixes it with out any grinding noise.
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It may just be a freak thing that it didn't come out of the screensave, just the grinding nioses worried me.
 
Yeah just make sure you back everything up...Dunno what it could have been but if it does suddenly go at least you will have backed up important things like your collage work & such :)
 
Yeah, I'll back everything up, but I don't know if it's a huge problem as this is the first time it's done it and I've started my computer twice since and it hasn't donw it?
 
Right, Thinking of getting a new HDD.
Are there any HUGE benefits of SATA over an IDE drive.

IDE are cheaper and I've heard you won't really notice a speed difference.
Also, It's a real pain for me to have to get a floppy drive to install XP on the SATA.

What do you think? Thanks :)
 
The fact that you are now hearing "strange sounds" more likely explains the sudden restarts you were seeing if those didn't result in the wear and tear now showing itself. Hard boot after hard boot is obviously taking it's toll! I'm not going to repeat what everyone is saying about backing things up since that is simply a common cense item. When you get into the new build this stuff will then become ancient history having resolved everything.
 
The restarts were due to an ATI driver, this was fixed, although this may have contributed to the problem.

Yeah, I have back-ups, but they aren't as up to date as I'd like them to be.

Yeah, I'm really hoping so :D

So, anyway, I think I'll go with an IDE drive, They aren't too bad and they're cheap.

Any points or views on this?
 
Kornowski said:
Right, Thinking of getting a new HDD.
Are there any HUGE benefits of SATA over an IDE drive.

IDE are cheaper and I've heard you won't really notice a speed difference.
Also, It's a real pain for me to have to get a floppy drive to install XP on the SATA.

What do you think? Thanks :)
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well i cant realy remember if this is right or not but dont you only have a 40Gb hard drive anyway?

I would get a bigger one to be honest,especialy for when you get your new rig put together and start buying more games and stuff.

About the IDE VS SATA question take a look here

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum105/319.htm
 
Serial ATA is already the main trend considering new boards seeing only one ide controller mainly for optical drives which are still needed. What do you see when you look for a larger faster drive? The largest ide drive currently seen is Seagate's 500gb model while you are seeing sata drives going upto 750gb and soon larger.

Try resizing and moving partitions on an ide drive and then on a sata. That's one place to note the difference. Why not with OSs, games, and desktop apps? Those are first loaded into ram memory. The one thing now seen with the Vista installer is the improved hardware detection. MS is finally decided to try and keep up with Linux there.
 
I think I'm going to go with a SATA drive as I've heard some people say that you don't allways need the drivers, Windows will sometimes recognize it.
 
Kornowski said:
Apparently you need it to have the BIOS recognize it...
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The bios already recognises all drives installed except external on the usb bus until Windows is loaded. When you first turn on a system you see the drives listed then during the bios post tests. The driver disk is made up so that the Windows installer can properly detect a sata drive.
 
Right...

Another thing...

I started to play BF2 and then decided to go and get something to eat... I came back up to play on it and the HDD light on the case was on, as in, no flashing, just constant.

I played for maybe 20 seconds and it crashed and I got an empty BSOD, with no text on it.

Do you think my HDD is dying?

Thanks for any help :)
 
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