Computer lagging-freezing

[roary]

What I am experiencing is that from time to time, mainly just under normal surfing conditions or low load conditions, the entire pc stops responding for 1-10 seconds. Just before it starts to respond again, I hear a little click from the tower (Mozart Tx case) and everything is working again just fine.

I am currently running an X2 6000+, 4gb ram, two 1tb drives, one 160gb, one 500gb, 8800gtx, 650w Corsair ps, on a Gigabyte board (forget the exact model) with the cpu and gpu under water. All stock speeds, not OC'd at all. Also I have my OS on the 160gb along with most of my programs with the two tb drives as media storage and the 500gb as a backup drive.

I check my temps, and everything is within range, cpu around 35-40c and gpu around 40-45c.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? It's more of an annoyance rather than a problem, but I would like to understand what is causing it.

TIA

 

[roary]

Bump Anyone have any idea's whatsoever?

 

[bigwooly]

your HD is dying (Most likely the OS one). That's my professional opinion.

 

[metallicafan]

I agree. That click is most likely a failing hard drive. Im assuming that your page file is on that 160 GB drive too? I would look into getting another hard drive, cloning your OS drive onto a new drive (with Ghost or TrueImage or dd if your a Linux guy) then install the new drive. See if that fixes the problem.

 

[knothead34]

i agree a clicking sound = bad sound . lol

 

[roary]

I agree. That click is most likely a failing hard drive. Im assuming that your page file is on that 160 GB drive too? I would look into getting another hard drive, cloning your OS drive onto a new drive (with Ghost or TrueImage or dd if your a Linux guy) then install the new drive. See if that fixes the problem.

Well I wasn't really worried by it, since it was one click and everything back to normal. But now that I've been looking a little closer my HDD usage is pegged at that time when it locks then clicks. I guess I'll ghost my 160 over to my 500 and be done with it.

Thanks for the advice guys! Much appreciated!