Stuttery performance in WoW and Vista

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I did some tinkering with my setup earlier in the week as it was getting a bit toasty and something has gone a bit wrong as since then it's running like a dead dog. It's taking an age to boot into vista, running WoW takes a good 15 secs to load the login screen from blank and then in game there's a stutter every 6 seconds or so. It even takes ages to load all the objects in scenery such as buildings and NPCs. One of the hard disks is making a tiny series of 3 clicks every few seconds as well.

What I did to try and improve things was:
1. Ran auslogics boostspeed and memory optimiser.
2. defragged main boot disk
3. unplugged and reseated all HDs in caddy to space them out for airflow better as were getting warm.

My rig is:
E8500 at stock with Freezer 7
P5W-DH
2 x 2gb OCZ pc8500
Sapphire 4870 1GB
1 150gb Raptor, 1 1TB samsung spinpoint and an older 250gb hd.
(The raptor is boot disk and has wow on it also).
Seasonic 800W PSU in Antec P180
Vista 64 Ultimate

The clicking noise is the worrying bit - could the raptor be on the wya out and causing the stutter?
 
fair chance if its making a bit of noise, have you checked the Western digital site for a disk analysis tool ?
 
Ok cheers I'll have a go at the disk tools - I'm hoping it's something dense like a cable rubbing on a fan instead of retiring the raptor.

The other thing that crossed my mind was the sata and power cables to the drive as I disconnected them and re-rooted them so if they weren't seated properly, but I don't know if that would affect performance?
 
Right, jiggled the cables as the three were quite close together and the clicking seems to have stopped. Which is good because I can't get it to boot from cd and run the WD diagnostics, I've burnt it to disk twice and one version it cant find the license.txt, the other just sits doing nothing until I reboot. I might try a fresh install of vista, but that seems to hang when booting from the disk as well. I'm going off this pc, thank god my laptop still works :(
 
If it's not clicking that's good news, probably the drive is OK. I zeroed my own Raptor and it's also OK I think - before when I tried to restore a disk image onto it Norton Ghost said it couldn't write to certain sectors.
 
Any ideas what would cause the motherboard to be unable to boot from disk though Chris?

I can't get anything to boot now, just flashing blank cursor with cd-rom as first device after 'detect devices, no devices found' when usually the Asus DVD drive would show up there. Have loaded defaults in bios and then reset, still doesnt seem to be able to boot into either the vista disk or the WD tools?
 
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