HD spin up while windows is running

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Limp Gawd
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I recently built a new system (see sig) and have had this problem from day 1. Occasionally, my hard drive(s) will make the whir-click spin up sound while I'm in windows. If I'm browsing directories when this happens it will just pause for like 5 sec then the folder will open after it makes the noise. I thought I had a bad drive in my RAID array but I sent that disk off and it still does the same thing, this time from my primary drive.

I had COD4 installed on the RAID array and it would pause during the game, and make the whir-click sound but the PC has never rebooted or blue screened and there are no errors on any of my disks and nothing in the windows event log.

The only thing I can figure is that the 535W Enermax PSU isn't putting out enough power but I thought that my new system would be LESS power hungry than my old system (AMD 3800 X2 @2.4GHz, 7800GTX overclocked, with the same drives in it and same PSU).

Any ideas?
 
No one has seen this before? I think all of my drives are doing this. The PC did freeze and the screen went black at the end of a COD4 match last night, first time it's done that.

I'm going to hook up a DMM to one of the molex connectors tonight and see if there's any voltage fluctuation but uGuru shows steady 12.18 and 5.12 on the rails.

Maybe this is in the wrong forum?
 
I'd say it's power related.. I have a Maxtor HD that I experience a similar problem (powering down along with read/ write access problems). Switching molex connector solved my problems.. at least for now.. ;)
 
Ok, so I find a molex connector, hook up the DMM and I get 12.18V and 5.16V on the yellow and red wires after a reboot. After an hour or so of COD4 the 12V is at 11.54V and the 5V is at 2.47V which doesn't even seem possible but whatever, I ordered a new PSU. Oh yea, Abit's uGuru still reads 12.18 and 5.16.
 
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