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Is what I hear from my pc.

Everything seems to be working but I`ve got a repetitive spinning a then a clunk, over and over, each one lasiting about 5 secs.

Any ideas?

Is my hard drive dying?

It doesn`t seem to be coming from either of my dvd drives.

Sounds painfully familiar.
I`d say yes and backup immediately before it dies.

If you`ve got a spare or old HDD around try swapping them over and see if you get the same noise.

Snaps

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its not ur cd drive trying to access a cd or dvd is it?

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Spinning and clunking...

Spooky, because that`s exactly the sound that we heard coming from the direction of our PC earlier this evening. Turned out to be our hamster playing in his wheel :D .

Not much help but it does sound as though the drive is on it`s way out. Time to do a back-up before it`s too late.

Sam.

Sounds like hard drive to me to.

Have a look in your event viewer. That may say what is fault. I forget the exact message, but if there is an error with the hard drive or cd drive it may say.

it doesn`t alway say though :(

event viewer is in start -> settings -> control panel -> administrative tools

Al

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 30th August 2006, 07:14

Run a full scan disk and make sure you tick the `check for bad clusters` box. When it finishes, take a look in the event viewer System tab to see if you have any, and if so get a new HDD ASAP.

For such errors switch on S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS and use HD Tune to diagnose it.

Thanks for the suggestions.

It has stopped for now but I have backed up stuff...

....as we all do religiously, of course!

I found the problem after disconnecting the hard drive power lead and the noise was still present.

It was a sticky fan plonked on top of my Nvidia graphics card.

I disassembled the fan and put some lube on it.

All fine now, so you can sleep easy!

Thanks for the suggestions.

LOL, I assumed it wouldn`t be something so simple ;) Mine did the same thing, although I`ve since replaced it. I used to put my finger on it the first time I booted the system and it stopped.