HD clicks when OC'd now...

[Psychic Penguin]

posted in HD forum as well, Im just not really sure where it should go, hoping to maybe get a response here.

i know there is a sticky post that has to do with drive clicking, but this is different.

i couldnt really figure out if this should go in the processor board or hd board since i dont really know WHICH is causing the problem.
pasted from another forum i go to

starting from the beginning obviously.
I had my computer up for 35days with no reboot, no problems, no slowdowns, all was well. i then test out rdesktop to remote into this machine from linux. that went well...i started using it again after that. then...it starts, lmao. i come back like 20-30min later and my computer has hard locked. i say no big deal, its a good time to throw in my ide controller card and another hd i got. i get it all in and hit power. everythings goin good, posts fine, switches to another screen showing the ide card hd's..all good. then windows begins to load..."CLICK" followed by the standard hd power up noise. this is where i pee my pants, ive been here before with out the ide card and fixed it. so i took out the card and proceeded to reboot. again, windows starts to load "CLICK". F***! this is where the wierdness begins. i hit the reset button, everything cycles....no POST though. so i power off and power back up again, posts fine, but windows still wont load. at this point i power down and take out the cmos battery switch the jumper to clear everything and all that noise. i reboot now running far below stock speed (1100mhz on my 2500 barton). NOW windows loads just peachy. i run chkdsk and everything. i then proceed to restore my OC settings (200x11 to get 2.2ghz). reboot, windows starts to load..."CLICK". i NOW try running at stock speed of 1.8ghz, windows booted just fine, no click from hd or anything. i have never heard of an overclock causing anything like this, and ive been running it overclocked like that for WELL over a year now and nothing like this.
PS: it sometimes also clicks while sitting in bios when cpu is overclocked.
running at stock speed right now as i type this.
computer is as follows

winxp sp1 (yeah yeah)
asus a7n8x dx pcb2.0 rev 1007 bios
256x2mb corsair xms pc2700
2x WD 120gb SE
radeon 9500

 

[ryuji]

perhaps theres no pci lock.. are they serial ata hdds?

 

[Psychic Penguin]

IDE, I took the card out and things are exactly the way they were...minus the clock speed ofcourse

 

[2Fresh]

I would back up ASAP...that is the "click of death" ughhhh

 

[Psychic Penguin]

i thought that...but it boots and runs fine at stock speed. no clicks

 

[cnick79]

Things that tick that aren't good:

Engines to automobiles
Female biological clock
People with Ticks
Hard Drives
Time bombs

 

[Enigma]

I have had this problem countless times when overclocking my setup.... I found the same things also, that if I backed down the overclock or the core voltage to the CPU it owuld quite clicking.... I then bought a larger PSU and it fixed my problem so I somehow think that it could be voltage related... just my 2 cents

 

[tsuehpsyde]

If it clicks both WITH and WITHOUT a PCI controller...then I'd also second the PSU idea, other than that I have nothing. I generally hate harddrives because they break more than anything...I just installed a set of Raptors in a RAID-0 and am using sata 3 and 4, and went ahead and disabled 1 and 2 because I've heard 1 and 2 are not locked for overlocking (HTT is set at 224 atm). So far no problems...plus I have a beefy PSU to back all my goodies....now to install that XP-120.....*scared*

 

[OldMX]

Things that tick that aren't good:

Engines to automobiles
Female biological clock
People with Ticks
Hard Drives
Time bombs

LOL

I agree with 2Fresh, backup asap, that drive is a timebomb

 

[Psychic Penguin]

its a fairly new antec 430watt PSU....
im gonna ghost to a new(er) drive later tonight, then try to OC again. i just wanna know whats causing it so i know what to replace

i wish i could store all my data on fat ass solid state drives...lol

 

[darktiger]

Things that tick that aren't good:

Engines to automobiles
Female biological clock
People with Ticks
Hard Drives
Time bombs

LOL

What about watches, they are good when they tick...

 

[Psychic Penguin]

gah
ghosted to a drive that i got back from western digital but never put back in......booted into windows the first time alright (stock speed) only one little wierd thing, the grey progress bar appeared for a split second, at the bottom when windows loaded (like 2k does sometimes and like it does on install). does it every restart/boot now. not too concerned with this right now though.
tried to overclock back to 3200, no post after i exited bios and it tried to reboot. clocked back down and went back into windows...drive clicks again...hard lock.
im at a loss now, i dont know if it would be the processor causing it or the powersupply. good thing about the PSU is its still under warranty (3 years from antec). but that means id be without a computer for probly 2 weeks. trying to get my brother to not be an asshole and let me try his cpu (same thing as mine). but that probly wont happen.
any (rational ) suggestions are VERY welcome.