noise during boot and intoWindows loading

[Nicholas Baker]

The noise sounds very much like a hard drive clacking and after
experimenting with the fans and listening closely to them the noise does not
seem to be coming from a fan.

....just for interests sake... I had 4 front case LEDs and one LED went out
and I found a loose Molex connector wire. After I pushed it into the rear of
the molex connector the front case LED that went out came on again. I may
have another loose molex wire somewhere but I don't think so and I will
check.

The noise disappears after 15 seconds. It really sounds more like a hard
drive noise.
I have 2 Sata1, (not Sata2), hard drives 80GB each and the same model
installed in an Asrock775V88+ computer and the PSU is a Thermaltake...and I
hopefully will remember not to buy a Thermaltake PSU again....it was cheap.

I have thought to install SMART software and will someone recommend a SMART
software so I could perhaps inspect the hard drives.

I did format the hard drives with Seagate's Disk Wizard from a bootable CD
before I installed Windows XP Home Edition.

Previously I installed a Sata RAID card and RAID1 'd the 2 Sata hard drives.
The raid card began emitting sparks from the motherboard PCI slot
synchronizing with each loud clacking noise...would you believe it! And
there was a lot of sparks each time there was a clack!

Anyhow, I removed the card and this noise has developed. I am sure the noise
was not there straight after Windows XP Home Edition SP2 was installed.
It is possible the motherboard is damaged because I left a motherboard mount
beneath the motherboard and the PSU blew up...initially it blew sparks out
the rear when I switched it on but dumb me reckoned because the computer
worked I should just let it work and so for another 5 or 6 times I switched
the computer on with heavy sparks shooting out the back of the PSU and that
was very scary.... I had a new PSU before this new noise started.

Before I buy a new motherboard I would like to sort out the noise. I had
replaced the Sata hard drive I used in the RAID1 array with another I had
after I formatted the system with Disk Wizard and reinstalled Windows XP.

....lol...please have pity on me...you needn't...

 

[umwhat]

RE: noise during boot and into when Windows is loading

....I just noticed the noise is not there after a reboot but after a fitst
boot of the day hte noise is there. I did a search and found here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1994652&SiteID=17

....there, is a similar problem, well not so similar, but it does refer to a
harddrive spinning up which is similar in nature to the problem, and after a
reboot the problem is not there which is also similar to my problem but I do
not have that update installed and Belarc whatsit tells me the only update I
don't have installed is an update for Word Viewer...and do you think I can
locate it anywhere...even in WIndows Update by doing an auto update or manual
scan at Microsoft Update....?....well....noooooooo I can not! ...I just
thought I would try to be funny there...I guess I'm not funny at all...well
not humorously funny.
Meanwhile I have bought a new motherboard.






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"Nicholas Baker" wrote:

> The noise sounds very much like a hard drive clacking and after
> experimenting with the fans and listening closely to them the noise does not
> seem to be coming from a fan.
>
> ...just for interests sake... I had 4 front case LEDs and one LED went out
> and I found a loose Molex connector wire. After I pushed it into the rear of
> the molex connector the front case LED that went out came on again. I may
> have another loose molex wire somewhere but I don't think so and I will
> check.
>
> The noise disappears after 15 seconds. It really sounds more like a hard
> drive noise.
> I have 2 Sata1, (not Sata2), hard drives 80GB each and the same model
> installed in an Asrock775V88+ computer and the PSU is a Thermaltake...and I
> hopefully will remember not to buy a Thermaltake PSU again....it was cheap.
>
> I have thought to install SMART software and will someone recommend a SMART
> software so I could perhaps inspect the hard drives.
>
> I did format the hard drives with Seagate's Disk Wizard from a bootable CD
> before I installed Windows XP Home Edition.
>
> Previously I installed a Sata RAID card and RAID1 'd the 2 Sata hard drives.
> The raid card began emitting sparks from the motherboard PCI slot
> synchronizing with each loud clacking noise...would you believe it! And
> there was a lot of sparks each time there was a clack!
>
> Anyhow, I removed the card and this noise has developed. I am sure the noise
> was not there straight after Windows XP Home Edition SP2 was installed.
> It is possible the motherboard is damaged because I left a motherboard mount
> beneath the motherboard and the PSU blew up...initially it blew sparks out
> the rear when I switched it on but dumb me reckoned because the computer
> worked I should just let it work and so for another 5 or 6 times I switched
> the computer on with heavy sparks shooting out the back of the PSU and that
> was very scary.... I had a new PSU before this new noise started.
>
> Before I buy a new motherboard I would like to sort out the noise. I had
> replaced the Sata hard drive I used in the RAID1 array with another I had
> after I formatted the system with Disk Wizard and reinstalled Windows XP.
>
> ...lol...please have pity on me...you needn't...
>