so my system hangs, mouse moving but the OS is frozen
i wait a minute, hit CTR-ALT-DEL and nothing
hit the reset button and during bios system check my hhd's take for ever, then dont detect
i notice the 1 yr old WD Caviar 60g has a high pitched whirr on power up/down (worse on down)
i begin to remove the drive from the system and as im pulling out the power cord it sounds odd, best way to describe it is that it sounds like the 'crinkling' you get from opening a peppermint or jolly rancher.
i leave my old 8gig WD Caviar in (storage) and the system has no problems recognizing the drive.
take it out and put the 60 back in, again the BIOS arent able to identify it
i let it sit several hours while im at school and meetings, come home and still no good
i take it and pop it into my brothers computer as slave
works fine! (not running OS) WTF?! i say to myself
take it back to my system and it boots up okay.....runs for 5min then it then freezes again and upon restart is no longer working w/BIOS
try it a few times, BIOS wouldnt even boot this time
disconnect the drive and pop it back here into my bro's comp and its doing fine as far as copying/moving/deleting/displaying data
its still got that HIGH pitched whirr, which surely isnt a good sign but no faults in terms of use
im running a 1.2 GHZ Athlon, Abit KT7A-R mobo, GeForce 3, Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Value, Linksys 10/100
anyone out there have any ideas on what could be causing the problem? my first thought was hhd, but its still working here as a slave
i wait a minute, hit CTR-ALT-DEL and nothing
hit the reset button and during bios system check my hhd's take for ever, then dont detect
i notice the 1 yr old WD Caviar 60g has a high pitched whirr on power up/down (worse on down)
i begin to remove the drive from the system and as im pulling out the power cord it sounds odd, best way to describe it is that it sounds like the 'crinkling' you get from opening a peppermint or jolly rancher.
i leave my old 8gig WD Caviar in (storage) and the system has no problems recognizing the drive.
take it out and put the 60 back in, again the BIOS arent able to identify it
i let it sit several hours while im at school and meetings, come home and still no good
i take it and pop it into my brothers computer as slave
works fine! (not running OS) WTF?! i say to myself
take it back to my system and it boots up okay.....runs for 5min then it then freezes again and upon restart is no longer working w/BIOS
try it a few times, BIOS wouldnt even boot this time
disconnect the drive and pop it back here into my bro's comp and its doing fine as far as copying/moving/deleting/displaying data
its still got that HIGH pitched whirr, which surely isnt a good sign but no faults in terms of use
im running a 1.2 GHZ Athlon, Abit KT7A-R mobo, GeForce 3, Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Value, Linksys 10/100
anyone out there have any ideas on what could be causing the problem? my first thought was hhd, but its still working here as a slave