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Well, I'm trying to figure out if it's my hard drive making a strange noise. to give you an idea, I have an antec 900 case, with 2 hard drives, a new wd640aaks, and a very old 160gb ide... I have them in seperate hdd bays, the 640 in the lower one, middle slot, and the 160 in the higher bay, middle slot (antec 900 has 2 hdd bay things, each with 3 slots).. in what seems to be the higher one, once in a while it will make this sound, which is hard to explain...
The sound is almost like something is powering up. Note, the 160 is not my boot drive, and nothing is run off of it, it's just some extra storage. It seems to be pritty random as to when it makes this "powering up" sound, of course, just as randomly, it will sound like it's powering down, whatever it is. There is another sound with it though that comes and goes.
The other sound was there before, but disappeared at some point. It just came back after I bumped the front of my case with something. It almost sounds like a sawblade that starts whenever whatever it is powers up. Similar to as if something was touching one of the fans. Note I checked all the fans, nothing was touching anything.
I'm really trying to figure out what it is, and the only thing I can think of is the old 160gb ide hdd.. is anyone familiar with this?
edit: I just heard when it "powered down", there was a little tick or click or something, right before. If that helps. (not like a hdd click, but uh... I dont know lol.. hard to discribe.)
The sound is almost like something is powering up. Note, the 160 is not my boot drive, and nothing is run off of it, it's just some extra storage. It seems to be pritty random as to when it makes this "powering up" sound, of course, just as randomly, it will sound like it's powering down, whatever it is. There is another sound with it though that comes and goes.
The other sound was there before, but disappeared at some point. It just came back after I bumped the front of my case with something. It almost sounds like a sawblade that starts whenever whatever it is powers up. Similar to as if something was touching one of the fans. Note I checked all the fans, nothing was touching anything.
I'm really trying to figure out what it is, and the only thing I can think of is the old 160gb ide hdd.. is anyone familiar with this?
edit: I just heard when it "powered down", there was a little tick or click or something, right before. If that helps. (not like a hdd click, but uh... I dont know lol.. hard to discribe.)