Firstly sorry for mega long post
Ok the other day i dusted my pc out, took side panel off and gently went round with a small paintbrush.
Plugged everything back in and I get a high pitched noise coming from my second HDD and it hangs on post while detecting hard drives, on the first boot after cleaning it hanged for 20seconds or so then booted windows, as windows was loading and the cursor thing was scrolling accros i suddenly got a blue screen and pc restarted itself.
Once agin it hanged for 20seconds, bit this time booted straight to desktop, i then got 'pc recovered from serious error'.
I checked both hard drives back when i was in windows, both showing up ok and everything looked ok. I then shutdown my system and took side panel off to see if i had plugged IDE cable back in properly. Looked ok, reboot, hanged on post while detecting drives, still getting the high pitched noise.
After this reboot as windows loading the checkdisk thing comes up for no reason (never set it to) and it starts scanning my second harddrive (currently the culprit for the noise etc), it stops mid scan and says it cannot continue due to corruption.
Anyway i get back into windows again and goto check on my harddrives, its detecting my second hard drive but its saying its 0gb etc wont let me acces due to corruption, primary HDD is fine.
I think omg and shut pc down, unplug sec HDD and just run off primary, theres no londer delay at post, straight into windows no problem.
My secondary HDD is a 40GB IBM Deskmaster, ive heard about these always dying and apparently there nicknamed deathstars, I accept its probs dead and pretty gutted that ive lost all my movies etc.
I now move on in life and forget bout it, learned my lesson and being to browse some forums, i use the scroll button on my mouse to scroll up and down, on each scroll of the button a clicking noise comes from the pc, wtf is going wrong now i think?
Doesnt really bother me so i goto play some games, double click icon, game begins to load up, just as the first screen loads, monitor goes black and pc crashes, have to restart by the restart button!! Tried to play every game i own but a no go.
Now my question is..
ALL I DID WAS DUST MY PC OUT, IVE DONE THIS HUNDREDS OF TIMES BEFORE WITH NO PROBLEM WHY NOW!!!!!
Does anybody have any ideas at all? I was very careful and certain i did not press too hard or break anything or anything and i wore an antistatic strap!
Specs =
Tyan tiger mpx
dual 1800 xp's
2gb ram
6800gt
120gb maxtor
40gb ibm
600w jeantech
Thanks!!
Ok the other day i dusted my pc out, took side panel off and gently went round with a small paintbrush.
Plugged everything back in and I get a high pitched noise coming from my second HDD and it hangs on post while detecting hard drives, on the first boot after cleaning it hanged for 20seconds or so then booted windows, as windows was loading and the cursor thing was scrolling accros i suddenly got a blue screen and pc restarted itself.
Once agin it hanged for 20seconds, bit this time booted straight to desktop, i then got 'pc recovered from serious error'.
I checked both hard drives back when i was in windows, both showing up ok and everything looked ok. I then shutdown my system and took side panel off to see if i had plugged IDE cable back in properly. Looked ok, reboot, hanged on post while detecting drives, still getting the high pitched noise.
After this reboot as windows loading the checkdisk thing comes up for no reason (never set it to) and it starts scanning my second harddrive (currently the culprit for the noise etc), it stops mid scan and says it cannot continue due to corruption.
Anyway i get back into windows again and goto check on my harddrives, its detecting my second hard drive but its saying its 0gb etc wont let me acces due to corruption, primary HDD is fine.
I think omg and shut pc down, unplug sec HDD and just run off primary, theres no londer delay at post, straight into windows no problem.
My secondary HDD is a 40GB IBM Deskmaster, ive heard about these always dying and apparently there nicknamed deathstars, I accept its probs dead and pretty gutted that ive lost all my movies etc.
I now move on in life and forget bout it, learned my lesson and being to browse some forums, i use the scroll button on my mouse to scroll up and down, on each scroll of the button a clicking noise comes from the pc, wtf is going wrong now i think?
Doesnt really bother me so i goto play some games, double click icon, game begins to load up, just as the first screen loads, monitor goes black and pc crashes, have to restart by the restart button!! Tried to play every game i own but a no go.
Now my question is..
ALL I DID WAS DUST MY PC OUT, IVE DONE THIS HUNDREDS OF TIMES BEFORE WITH NO PROBLEM WHY NOW!!!!!
Does anybody have any ideas at all? I was very careful and certain i did not press too hard or break anything or anything and i wore an antistatic strap!
Specs =
Tyan tiger mpx
dual 1800 xp's
2gb ram
6800gt
120gb maxtor
40gb ibm
600w jeantech
Thanks!!
Will try to find out though thanks.