I received my computer on tue (10/12/13) only to find out that my graphics card was faulty. after ringing up pcs and asking about what could be the problem they decided to ship out a sealed one to swap with my faulty one. When that I arrived and I replace the old one, it worked fine. however I think may have come across another issue and thought i would post it here if anyone had any clue.
My hard drive now does this frequent knocking sound, similar to a light knock on a table, following this whenever i try to use the hard drive for example open a folder inside or make a new folder/install something there, it makes a very loud chugging/grinding noise. which doesn't sound healthy.
I want to know if anyone has any idea on what this might and what to do, the must common answer from roaming the internet is to replace it,but I would like to avoid replacing a 3day old hardrive straight after replacing my graphics card. I have to hard disks follows:
1st Hard Disk 120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
the one that is making the loud knocking and chugging/grinding noise is the second one (1tbWD caviar)
also when booting up a game or program from the first hard drive (120gb kingston) I get a similar sound but very high pitched, ( a bit like a dentists drill) if anyone understands what I mean? I hope this isn't as bad as it seems, but it doesn't sound healthy. Only had this computer for 3 days and its driving me insane with the faults and problems.
tl;dr Hard drive makes knocking noise/ chugging/grinding noise any ideas what it might be.
Cheers for anyone who reads this hope to get an answer soon.
My hard drive now does this frequent knocking sound, similar to a light knock on a table, following this whenever i try to use the hard drive for example open a folder inside or make a new folder/install something there, it makes a very loud chugging/grinding noise. which doesn't sound healthy.
I want to know if anyone has any idea on what this might and what to do, the must common answer from roaming the internet is to replace it,but I would like to avoid replacing a 3day old hardrive straight after replacing my graphics card. I have to hard disks follows:
1st Hard Disk 120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
the one that is making the loud knocking and chugging/grinding noise is the second one (1tbWD caviar)
also when booting up a game or program from the first hard drive (120gb kingston) I get a similar sound but very high pitched, ( a bit like a dentists drill) if anyone understands what I mean? I hope this isn't as bad as it seems, but it doesn't sound healthy. Only had this computer for 3 days and its driving me insane with the faults and problems.
tl;dr Hard drive makes knocking noise/ chugging/grinding noise any ideas what it might be.
Cheers for anyone who reads this hope to get an answer soon.