Strange sound

[nankura]

Hey guys

 

Ok basically, this has never happened before but every now and then recently ill be watching a small movie

 

and the movie will freeze for up to 3 seconds and ill hear a strange whistle sound from the pc, and the lag will go away and the movie continue's

 

I have 2 hard disks

 

Seagate 500GB

Western Digital 500GB

 

The western digital lately has felt quite clunky and constantly files are getting to 5-10% fragments

 

I left windows for abit to play with linux on it and never had an issue, but i reinstalled windows 7 a phew nights ago

 

And then this problem started, i also woke up a phew nights ago and all my fans werent running properly while the pc was in sleep mode and clunking

 

When i run the pc on the seagate which has ubuntu 11.04 on it, i get no lag, nor do i get any problems. everythings smooth and peaceful and i havnt seen a spec of these issues

 

Ive noticed issues ever since i put windows 7 back on the western digital hard disk and choppyness

 

So the only thing i can think of is either windows is causing a problem or my western digital is dying

 

Im preying its not the PSU or graphics card, there tough to replace

 

Edit: at this point im running a quick Western digital SMART hard disk test, no errors reported, but the hard drive is as loud as my speakers, i can hear it from a phew feet away clickering

Edited August 9, 2011 by nankura

[KenB]

Hi,

 

Whistle - clicking .......could be the same problem - more than likely 2 different things.

 

I am more concerned with the clicking at the moment.

If this is coming from the Hard Drive then it could well be failing ( mechanically ).

 

Suggest that you backup all data that you need - before it dies on you.

 

Clicking is a known symptom of a failing drive.

 

It could be a fan touching one of the trailing wires - check this too.