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The Hitman 05-09-2007 18:33
Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
In online gameing my pc freezes.One of my hd's starts to powerup it makes a click.It does it all the time and its regular. I have turned off the indexing crap as well. When I'm not online and i drag and drop files to the hd the pc freezes for a few secs the hd then makes a click and then powers up.

I am running 4hd's 2 sata and 2 ide and 4 dvd writers.:D

trevortt 05-09-2007 18:40
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Could be a PSU problem, what are your full specs and what wattage is your PSU and what make is it?

Also scan your pc for viruses, adware, malware & any unwanted programs.

The Hitman 05-09-2007 18:47
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
My psu is a 850watt Thermaltake. My pc has 2 gig of ddr2 and im running nod32 and adware ect so no unwanted viruses or malware or anything like that on it

trevortt 05-09-2007 18:52
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hitman (Post 34390444)
My psu is a 850watt Thermaltake. My pc has 2 gig of ddr2 and im running nod32 and adware ect so no unwanted viruses or malware or anything like that on it

Could be that the hdd has had its days as the bearings on the drive may have failed or the board is knackered.

You can replace the boards but they are not economical to do so, be cheaper to get a new hdd, i would recommend backing up all the data you have on this drive just in case it goes anytime soon.

ZrByte 05-09-2007 18:55
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Sounds to me like DMA has either not been enabled or has become disabled on one of the IDE drives.
Couldnt begin to tell you how to check this on VISTA though.

trevortt 05-09-2007 19:01
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZrByte (Post 34390450)
Sounds to me like DMA has either not been enabled or has become disabled on one of the IDE drives.
Couldnt begin to tell you how to check this on VISTA though.
Here you go

monkey2468 05-09-2007 19:32
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hitman (Post 34390431)
In online gameing my pc freezes.One of my hd's starts to powerup it makes a click.It does it all the time and its regular. I have turned off the indexing crap as well. When I'm not online and i drag and drop files to the hd the pc freezes for a few secs the hd then makes a click and then powers up.

I am running 4hd's 2 sata and 2 ide and 4 dvd writers.:D
Old style IBM Deskstar ide drives do that when there about to fail. Don't know about Vista but on XP it also makes it change from dma to pio mode in device manager. If you have any Deskstars, back them up while they still work.

The Hitman 05-09-2007 19:51
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
The mother board is just 2 months old and dma is enabled on all drives

zing_deleted 05-09-2007 20:00
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
have you turned off hard drive power down in advanced options under screen saver

I have posted in the past about the hard driver powering down it does make a noise then creates lag when it powers back up again id set this first and see

The Hitman 05-09-2007 20:03
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
It's set on high peformance

zing_deleted 05-09-2007 20:06
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
go into advanced and stop the hdds turning off on advanced its still set to power down hdds at 20 mins

The Hitman 05-09-2007 20:10
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
done it

---------- Post added at 19:10 ---------- Previous post was at 19:09 ----------

ill go online gameing and let u know muker

zing_deleted 05-09-2007 20:13
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
kk hope it is as simple as that :)

Graham M 05-09-2007 20:16
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Yep did the same to me too, it should be fixed now!

trevortt 05-09-2007 20:30
Re: Zing's Vista. A HD problem
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hitman (Post 34390467)
The mother board is just 2 months old and dma is enabled on all drives

the mobo might be two months old but that is not the fault, the fault is with the hdd.


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