PC crashing, freezing on desktop

[mujo]

Ok, So I had a problem a week ago, I thought my Hard drives were failing me. My PC crashes. Before the freeze, i hear a 'click' from my case. I at first thought this was the hard drives. NOw its doing the same thing with my NEW hard drive. Granted, its a new click, the one before was more like a screech. Now its a click.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? This is getting ridiculous, I seem to have more PC problems than Microsoft.

I'm running a completely NEW install of windows XP PRO. Anti virus and anit spyware checks are done every day, and I've recently defragged. Scandisk picked up nothing.

[Dog]

Is it freezing/crashing with the new drive?
Just a click?

[AGibbon]

Try to locate the noise. I had a mboard start squealing a few days before it died. Audigy sound cards have been known to screech at certain times, on certain chipsets. Power supply could do that also. The screeching could be a capacitor or something dying out. It locks or shuts down? The click is odd though, as that usually is a hard drive dying, but it could be that the controller is doing that to the drive, if the motherboard is going south. Can you give specs on machine? Power supply specs too would be cool.

[mujo]

Yes just a click. Doesn't squeal anymore. And I think I may have found an association with the crashing, and my RAID Controller being enabled in BIOS.

After I got the new drive, I disabled the RAID in BIOS. Everything worked fine. Yesterday, I reconnected my old drives to get some data off them, and doing so had to re-enable the RAID hardware on the motherboard. I in turn, forgot to disable the RAID after disconnecting my old drives. My theory is that this is the cause of it, I have since turned it off, and have not had a crash. I hope that the RAID controller was the cause of it.

System Specs:

MOBO: Epox 9NPA+Ultra
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
250 GB WD 7200 RPM SATAII HDD (brand new)
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 (2x512)
ATI x850xt 256 mb VPU
Creative Labs Xfi XtremeMusic Edition

[cobra]

it's official Mujo.

PC's HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!

[gator]

Use a Mac? That's what I do for non TV/gaming usage.

Anyways, clicking isn't good... if it's coming from the HD, check the SMART status.