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My heart stopped beating...

J

jeece

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Yesterday night, I was surfing the web while MSNing and downloading, and suddenly, a clicking noise came from my computer... The same exact noise as if I had reseted it! Looks like the fans kinda went off for 1/4 sec too. The image on the monitor froze for like 2 sec (looked like an eternity though!), then all went back to normal. Windows kept on running, Messages were still incoming, etc, like nothing happened.

It doesn't seem it's power related (the room lights and monitor haven't flickered at all)... And no alarms from ASUS probe as well (Voltages, fans, temps were all OK).

Don't really know if there's an explanation, but does anything like this happened to someone here before? (Its not a desperate scream for help, I'm just curious.)

Could it be a PSU "protection"?

Here's my main specs:
Asus A7N8X-E dx
Athlon 2500+ (stock settings)
2x256mb Kingston 2.5
Radeon 9600xt
Vantec Stealth 420a PSU
(edit) S-ATA 120gb WD + 60gb IDE WD
All this runs from a "don't remember the name" powerbar outlet.
 
May be related to your hard drive. They can make clicking noises and cause momentary freezes from things including an insufficiently tight power connector. Been there, done that, tightened the hollow pins in the male connector (if I understand the gender convention correctly) with needle nose pliers to get rid of it. YMMV.
 
Hmm, yeah, could be, havent' thought about this. :( I'll try and give those connectors a shot.

Thanks!!! ;)
 
there is no need for a ups when its NOT a power issue, his lights and moniter stayed on, so the issue wasnt a loss of power to the psu,
 
occasionally my computer has just frozen for a few seconds for no reason. no noises though. it seemed like it froze and i was about to restart it but then it was back.
 
Doesn't hurt to have a UPS though. I've had a UPS squeal more than once over power blips that were fast enough to be difficult to discern from pure imagination (often caused by demanding equipment (like air conditioning, for example) firing up).
 
Originally posted by BLsibub666
there is no need for a ups when its NOT a power issue, his lights and moniter stayed on, so the issue wasnt a loss of power to the psu,
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Yup, monitor stayed on with frozen image (cursor wouldn't move) right after the noise... It really went like a restarting PSU... *click* *click* *zwwweeee* (fans spooling). I'm not 100% sure its not power related, I don't dismiss the idea, but I think its just weird. Oh well, as long as it doesn't happen again, I wont worry about this...
 
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