Strange HDD click of death problem

[Ethermaster]

Hi Guy,

Got abit of a strange one here, sounds to me like a strange version of the click of death.

Built a friend a new computer the other month and it has how started to click after about 10mins after booting into Windows and the computer stops working, reset the machine and all you hear is the click of death, reset is again and it boots again all is fine, until about after 10 mins bang clicks again.

Changed SATA data and power cables, same thing..... Do you think its RMA time?

 

[StonerDude]

Simply put, yes. I've found over the years that once a HDD starts making any sort of clicking sound, death is imminent.

 

[Ethermaster]

sorry about the bad grammer, having a 2 year old running round, cooking dinner and my mate calling every 5 mins and typing that message on my mobile didn't help.