• Upgraded PC and still getting strange boot-like sounds
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So some of you may remember my previous thread on how I sometimes heard sounds like my computer was booting or shutting down for no apparent reason. It was linked to the PSU by most of you. Well, about 2 weeks ago, I upgraded. PSU, mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU, all of those were replaced. You may be surprised to hear then that I'm still getting those sounds, as was I. I'm starting to think my C drive may be failing. Is this possible?
Recordings of said sounds would be helpful.
Other then bohb's suggestion run some sort of S.M.A.R.T analysis of your drive if you're suspicious.
So I ran a S.M.A.R.T. analysis on said drive with GSmartControl. The error log for that drive shows 2 identical errors. Type: Uncorrectable error in data Details: Sectors at LBA = 0x00db7744 = 14382916 I googled the uncorrectable error and all I got was [url=http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19240660.aspx]this[/url] which is more about refusing to boot entirely. Am I lucky enough to have it failing?
take a screenshot of the "Attributes" tab.
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/hdd.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;29187103][img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/hdd.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] The drive more or less looks fine. I think the thing it was complaining about was the one registered "UDMA CRC error count". That attribute means that S.M.A.R.T. detected data corruption during a transfer to the drive. It's usually caused by a bad data cable, and shouldn't be worried about unless it starts happening frequently.
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