Seagate Hard Drive Problem

havocas · 24 Dec 2006 at 14:56

Hi,

I am hoping somebody can help here!

I recently purchased a new Seagate 320GB HD but i am having serious problems trying to install it.

I managed to install windows but after a while it started making clicking noises. It would click a few times and then the computer would just hang. I reformatted the hard drive and tried to install windows again. During the installation, it started clicking again, nothing was even installed on it.

I have run seagates diagnostics tool and it has picked up no problems. I am assuming there may be some other hardware issue that is causing the hard drive to click.

The previous drive i used had the exact same problem. I purchased the seagte HD in the hope that this problem would go away! but to no avail!

I am running an AMD 3200XP on a Asus A79NX E- Deluxe with 1024 Ram

Please help me if you can! Thanks a lot!

havocas · 24 Dec 2006 at 15:15

Sorry I forgot.

It is a IDE

havocas · 24 Dec 2006 at 15:27

Sorry its an Antec Tru power 550W

havocas · 24 Dec 2006 at 21:51

Justintime said:
Few years ago i had the same symptoms with various hard drives in a PC i was repairing, turned out to be a bad True power 430W PSU. Have seen quite a few dead 430W client models, at least 11 over the years, not much dead 550s but it can happen, have mostly avoided Antec since then. My own 330W and 430W True Power psus no longer exist due to similar deaths.

How would i know its dead?

Any signs to look out for? Noise? Visual?..Smell?!?! Is there a tool i can use?

Your help is appreciated. I did suspect it as the power supply.

havocas · 25 Dec 2006 at 16:40

Seems to have worked. Put my old PSU in and everything is working fine.

Strange really, I purchased an Antec on the back of their reliability