Okay just got a Chaintech 6800GT from eBay. When I play games, i hear "clicks" from my harddrive like the ones you hear when you just power up your machine. I thought it was my power supply so I unplugged everything and only have the HD, the video card, and floppy drive plugged in. Symptoms:
1) In Black&White 2, every 6ish seconds, Ill hear a HD Click, everything will freeze up for 5 seconds, then itll return to normal for 1-5seconds, repeat.
2) In World of Warcraft, Ill hear the click maybe every couple of minutes, everything freezes for a few seconds, then resumes as if I had never stopped doing whatever it is I was doing. Like I'll come back and a monster I was fighting would be dead.
3) In Quake 4, no clicks but every few seconds Ill see this slight "stutter" in FPS.
4) In HL2:Lost Coast, I had one click during the main menu but none when I played through it.
5) Only hear clicks regularly when Im playing games.
6) Dont hear clicks when Im on the XP desktop (or right now). However, I HAVE heard clicks occasionally when using my BFG 6800 in the past. Sometimes it would temporarily freeze up my games other times it wouldnt.
Because of 5-6 I dont think its the HD. Because of 1-4 I dont think its the video card. If the card was screwed up I dont think I could play anything at all. Could it be my power supply being too weak? Thats my only guess. Its some crappy no name 350W one, "Codegen" or something. Im going to change it this weekend but I wanted some input. Thanks in advance.
1) In Black&White 2, every 6ish seconds, Ill hear a HD Click, everything will freeze up for 5 seconds, then itll return to normal for 1-5seconds, repeat.
2) In World of Warcraft, Ill hear the click maybe every couple of minutes, everything freezes for a few seconds, then resumes as if I had never stopped doing whatever it is I was doing. Like I'll come back and a monster I was fighting would be dead.
3) In Quake 4, no clicks but every few seconds Ill see this slight "stutter" in FPS.
4) In HL2:Lost Coast, I had one click during the main menu but none when I played through it.
5) Only hear clicks regularly when Im playing games.
6) Dont hear clicks when Im on the XP desktop (or right now). However, I HAVE heard clicks occasionally when using my BFG 6800 in the past. Sometimes it would temporarily freeze up my games other times it wouldnt.
Because of 5-6 I dont think its the HD. Because of 1-4 I dont think its the video card. If the card was screwed up I dont think I could play anything at all. Could it be my power supply being too weak? Thats my only guess. Its some crappy no name 350W one, "Codegen" or something. Im going to change it this weekend but I wanted some input. Thanks in advance.