05.22.07

Helios

Posted in Computer at 19.10 by Gabe

1 APEVIA X-Pider ATXA2XPW-BL/420 Blue Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case 420W Power Supply – Retail
1 PLEXTOR 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Beige SATA Model PX-716SA/SW – Retail
2 HITACHI Deskstar 7K250 HDS722512VLSA80 (13G0253) 120GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive – OEM
1 AMC 8 inches 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter Model Y Power Cable – OEM
1 ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard – Retail
1 Leadtek PX6600GT TDH GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Retail
1 mushkin Green 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model 991145 – Retail
1 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 2.0GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX – Retail
1 Verbatim DataLifePlus 4.7GB 8X DVD-R 50 Packs Disc – Retail
1 Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition with Service Pack 2 – OEM

Zeus

Posted in Computer at 19.07 by Gabe

Gateway 6400
I added another CPU and it currently has 896MB of RAM.
Two 40 GB IDE HD.
GeForce2MX
Live!Value
CD-RW of some sort

05.21.07

Dying Hard Drive?

Posted in Computer at 10.01 by Gabe

What is this noise?
clickingNoise.wav 177kb
I hope the clicking (near the end) is not a sign of my hard drive dying.

What is it with me and hard drives? Why do they die around me? What am I doing that causes them to keel over?

My machine usually has WoW running … nearly 24/7. Usually at the login screen.

Saturday, May 19th, I logged into WoW to play. After a few hours of play, I heard the clicking noise and my machine would pause for a few seconds, while clicking, and resume normally after the clicking.

Then, one clicking session did not end for 3 or so minutes and I shut off the machine. I haven’t turned it back on yet.