Ok. On friday i came to a program and my computer turned off. There was no smell or anything coming out of the computer or psu.So I thought that the psu had jut over heated. now on sunday i bootup my pc and go into windows, and i heard some clicks from the hard drive and the system was stuttering, and acting slow. I immediately shut down the computer. I'm currently using my mom's pc. So what happened? Is my hard drive dieing? Is it also a psu problem? what is it? Oh and I'm running window xp sp2. Specs: Mobo: biostar t force 7025 Hard drive: 1 seagate 20gb( the one i heared the clicking from), 1 80gb, and 1 seagate 30gb. Psu: Rosewill RV350 ATX 1.3 350W 1 cd-rw 2 sticks of 512mb ram. and some fans.
I guess that's several years old? I'd be backing up and replacing the HDD before spending any money elsewhere, maybe dumping the 30Gb as well and just keeping the 80Gb as a backup.
I was planing to do that. Also what would cause the computer to just shut down? And what store should I go to if I was to a hard drive? I live in the us. All thats on the 30gb is games, and ubuntu. At Staples you can gat a 160gb maxtor hd, are they any good?
Most folks on your side of the water use Newegg Make sure you buy the right type of drive though! If your whole system is as old as that 20GB hard drive... it may only support IDE/ATA drives? Newer drives are SATA/SATA II - but if your motherboard doesn't support them, it's pointless considering an SATA drive? Buy as large a capacity drive as you can... Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, or Hitachi being the best choices these days
It's an AM2 board AFAICS so should run SATA; for future-proofing that would be the best way to go. In fact, if that's the board it only has one IDE channel so he must have a couple of SATA drives.
Turned out the hard drive is fine. it looks more like it was a freak happening. and it only has one ide port. i use a ide pci card
Youare driving that motherboard nuts with such slow and old HDDs... Its like driving a car with the handbrake on! Get a serious performance boost by spending a few dollars on a new sata drive!
