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Intermittent clicking noises

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  • 26-10-2015 3:09am
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    the_syco
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    Getting intermittent clicking noises. Ran disk checks, comes up okay, etc, but the clicks... they're not continuous, as I have had with the "click of death", but it does concern me.

    Anyone know of a decent tool that can tell me if the HDD is fecked or not? Or even which HDD is affected?


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    Lu Tze
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    the_syco wrote: »
    Getting intermittent clicking noises. Ran disk checks, comes up okay, etc, but the clicks... they're not continuous, as I have had with the "click of death", but it does concern me.

    Anyone know of a decent tool that can tell me if the HDD is fecked or not? Or even which HDD is affected?

    I ran HD tune on old hard drive before that was acting up, came up with no bad sectors, but when I ran the read/write benchmark the speed dropped away to nothing at one point. Of course, the benchmark could FUBAR your hard drive potentially if its on the verge!


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    1. Ignore SMART, its useless for the most part.

    2. Get Spinrite. Hard disk miracles.


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    L
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    Might not be the HDDs - when are you getting the clicks?

    If it's mostly when you're putting the PC under load, I'd check the cabling (especially if you've moved the pc recently). A loose cable near a fan can give a clicking noise that comes and goes.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,299 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    L wrote: »
    Might not be the HDDs - when are you getting the clicks?
    PC would be probably idling.


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    Mad Englishman
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    My guess would be as follows...
    1- Hard disk,
    2- Wire near a fan,
    3- Optical disk drive.
    I any case make sure you take back-ups REGULARLY! @Cause IF it is the HDD at least you'll have a copy of your data, or my prefrance in this situation a cloned image of the entire HDD to copy straight onto a nice new SSD/HDD and pick up right where I left off. If you have a spare drive kicking about, try switching it out and see if that solves the "CLICK!", same applies to the DVD/Blu-Ray. But first I would check the condition of the fans as these are "Normally" the cheapest repair (That is unless you own a laptop!!!).

    Hope this helps,

    Kev B. (AKA {The} Mad Englishman!)


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