I've had some problems with my desktop's HDD. It frequently made a click-clack sound and made my PC crash about every day.
I've already asked about this here on Facepunch. Someone gave me [url=http://urltoy.com/psc.htm]a tool[/url], and it turned out my HDD was overheating (reaching above 30 degrees) and it's health was dropping to under 50%.
I'm now waiting for my new HDD to arrive. That should fix it.
Recently I've also run into the same problem (minus the click-clacking) with my laptop. It crashes about every day, and the tool said it was reaching around 55 degrees, and it health was down to 37%.
Now I've called customer support for the laptop, and they said 55 degrees was fine, and I shouldn't worry until it reached about 70 degrees.
This suprised me because I thought 50 degrees was the danger zone for most disks. Plus, the laptop is still crashing.
Now I'm convinced the crash is actually because of the overheating. It never occurs at night, when it's cooler, and the crashing only started recently, since the weather has become very hot here.
The actual crash is not like a blue screen or something. Everything just freezes (both graphics and audio) and I have to press reset or hold the power button.
What should I do now? I think it would be best to buy a new HDD, but I'm not a real pro if it comes to hardware.
50 is ok for a laptop HDD no worry's.
Whats the temp of your other components?
Or post an HW monitor screenshot .
I would check all your vents. Maybe get some "Canned Air" as a lot of air compressors have water them and blow out all the vents and make sure the computer can "breath"
Okay, here's a screenshot of HW Monitor on both the laptop and desktop:
[t]http://new.tinygrab.com/7cfbd517836ee8197e2cd2db33316eb469056a34aa.png[/t]
Left is laptop, right is desktop.
Are any of these values too high?
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