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fuzzdemon

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I had a Samsung 160GB hard drive that started clicking and eventually failed, so I went back to my old Seagate 40GB drive and that started clicking, so I replaced the PSU as recommended but its still clicks, I tried another Seagate 40GB drive and that also clicks.

It seems unlikely to me, but could it be the motherboard causing this? Im expecting these older drives to fail at any moment now and dont know what to do.

Appreciate any help.
Thanks
Gareth
 
Hard drives clicking isn't a good thing. Something is killing them either bad psu or you don't have clean power where you live. Also, they don't like to be dropped so take that in mind too. How old are these drives?
 
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johnb35 said:
Hard drives clicking isn't a good thing. Something is killing them either bad psu or you don't have clean power where you live. Also, they don't like to be dropped so take that in mind too. How old are these drives?
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It does sound like I dont handle them with care I know but trust me ive always handled them very carefully.

The 160GB is about 3 years old, the other 2 drives are about 5 years old.

Clean power is something ive not considered, I didnt have this problem before I moved to my new address a few years ago but if that was the case surely the net would be rammed with similar posts.

edit: i have a laptop and thats never had this problem, so I keep thinking it must be the mobo.
 
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Oh, I forgot to mention once a drive starts clicking there is no way to stop it from clicking. Changing the power supply wouldn't have solved anything. You may want to try a new hard drive now since you got a new power supply and see how it goes. If it goes again then I would assume its an issue with the power coming into the house. If thats the case, then you would need an UPS system so that it delivers clean power to your computer.
 
johnb35 said:
Oh, I forgot to mention once a drive starts clicking there is no way to stop it from clicking. Changing the power supply wouldn't have solved anything. You may want to try a new hard drive now since you got a new power supply and see how it goes. If it goes again then I would assume its an issue with the power coming into the house. If thats the case, then you would need an UPS system so that it delivers clean power to your computer.
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I didn't know that, I will go for a new drive and hope thats the answer, those UPS things look expensive. Thanks for the help John.

Just thought id mention if anyone else has this problem that my old PSU actually failed sometime after I started using the 40GB drive so maybe that old PSU has damaged all these drives.
 
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