Hitachi Hard Disk creates clicking noises:
Heres a little story i had a Rampage ii extreme - I7 920 and four seagate 1gb hardrives. I set the computer up with 2 HD on the sata raid ports in 0. Then the other HD and 2 cd drives on the ports. I got a whine pitch noise and Hard Drive clicking noises from time to time. The computer would hang or sometimes when i restarted there would be HD errors. I changed the Controller options in Win7 took of the advanced and write back options. Still didnt work the intell Raid program would show errors and sometimes drop the raid. Called ASUS and they thought the Southbridge was bad. Had it repaired and put it all back together still same problem.
Replaced the board with Gigabyte X58 UDR3 in rebuilding the computer. The first start up no second set of drives. On the Gigabyte board theres three controllers GA-Intel-Jmicron 6g on the GA controller raid. The cd rom drives on the intel controllers. The 2 other drives on the GA non 6gb ports. I said great i got another bad board or something. So in moving things around i hit the power cable for the 2 drives and they clicked like crazy. But they now showed up and worked badley but worked. I have a Ultra x3 1000 watt power supply with modular cables. Well the port for the cable on the PS really lose fit. So i used a regular 4pin 5volt with sata drive connectors. Started the computer up and everything is fine and no whinning or clicking noise.
I feel that the rail for the sata drive in the PS is no good or the port you plug the cable into is bad. Everything is fine now and no problems. No one ever thought to look at the PS because everything worked including the ATI X2 4800 thats needs tons of power. The computer is stable and the only problem i had was the clicking and hangups. The other board was fine all along. So i spent 200 dollars for nothing except i got usb 3.0 and 6gb HD connections that the rampage ii didnt have. I went from a 400 dollar board to a 200 dollar board with no really cool looking heat sinks and the lcd poster. And most of the software on the board and the creative X-fi MB edition was nice touch but stupid. Why couldnt they just give a full creative X-fi instead of just adding the electronics to the little PCIEX1 thingy.
I had a used power supply in the house that was a 800 watt PS. I could have saved my self allot of trouple by hooking that up. I would have found out it was the PS first place. So check the power cables on any whinning noises or hard drive clicking. Or if your computer hangs for no reason and you get HD errors.
Heres a little story i had a Rampage ii extreme - I7 920 and four seagate 1gb hardrives. I set the computer up with 2 HD on the sata raid ports in 0. Then the other HD and 2 cd drives on the ports. I got a whine pitch noise and Hard Drive clicking noises from time to time. The computer would hang or sometimes when i restarted there would be HD errors. I changed the Controller options in Win7 took of the advanced and write back options. Still didnt work the intell Raid program would show errors and sometimes drop the raid. Called ASUS and they thought the Southbridge was bad. Had it repaired and put it all back together still same problem.
Replaced the board with Gigabyte X58 UDR3 in rebuilding the computer. The first start up no second set of drives. On the Gigabyte board theres three controllers GA-Intel-Jmicron 6g on the GA controller raid. The cd rom drives on the intel controllers. The 2 other drives on the GA non 6gb ports. I said great i got another bad board or something. So in moving things around i hit the power cable for the 2 drives and they clicked like crazy. But they now showed up and worked badley but worked. I have a Ultra x3 1000 watt power supply with modular cables. Well the port for the cable on the PS really lose fit. So i used a regular 4pin 5volt with sata drive connectors. Started the computer up and everything is fine and no whinning or clicking noise.
I feel that the rail for the sata drive in the PS is no good or the port you plug the cable into is bad. Everything is fine now and no problems. No one ever thought to look at the PS because everything worked including the ATI X2 4800 thats needs tons of power. The computer is stable and the only problem i had was the clicking and hangups. The other board was fine all along. So i spent 200 dollars for nothing except i got usb 3.0 and 6gb HD connections that the rampage ii didnt have. I went from a 400 dollar board to a 200 dollar board with no really cool looking heat sinks and the lcd poster. And most of the software on the board and the creative X-fi MB edition was nice touch but stupid. Why couldnt they just give a full creative X-fi instead of just adding the electronics to the little PCIEX1 thingy.
I had a used power supply in the house that was a 800 watt PS. I could have saved my self allot of trouple by hooking that up. I would have found out it was the PS first place. So check the power cables on any whinning noises or hard drive clicking. Or if your computer hangs for no reason and you get HD errors.
NOTE: I have Observed that just replacing the SATA Power cable can recover your HDD from clicking noises and can recover from Windows/ Mac startup problem.
So, It's highly recommended to replace the SATA Power Cable 1st before you change your PSU (Power SUpply Unit).
Also, try to find out if anything causes any short. If any component or wire shorts then your psu turns off automatically also.
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