Noise while accessing my HD?

Question

Hi there everyone!
I've noticed that lately, while I am listening to my mp3 files (no matter what player), while my computer accesses the Hard Drive, there's this noise, quite noticeable. Also, I've noticed a lag on my PC's response to many commands.
I'm worried, because I don't know where this problem arises. Might as well be anywhere, but I suspect the HD unit which is more or less a recent model -say I bought it bout 1 year ago-, the sound card (less probable) or even my microprocessor. Processor: AMD athlon 1.39 GHz 5 years old.
Does someone have an explanation to this?
Thanks for your replies!

I'm sorry I didn't do a good job making my question. The noise comes from the speakers, like some kind of static while the HD is being accessed. It doesn't come from the physical HD unit!
Thanks again

Answer 1

Generally when you hear voices/noise from speaker this means EMR distortion - ie there exist small cable between CD and sound card with purpose of delivering sound from CD to sound card/motherboard, which also often submit noise to speakers. Its possible when you change HDD this cable is been moved too closely to HDD or another component which produce EMR.
So how to fight it? Well change inside path of cable, try to use digital one/there is difference between digital and analog cable in connectors/, or try reduce EMR wrapping cable around with cooking aluminum folio .
Sluggish responsible system is not connected to sound - probably your computer is overheating - change processor fan its too old now.

Answer 2

Hi,
I would as a few others in here have said start by backing up your system ASAP. I work as a DTS thats desk top service person for a major brand of computer. When you start getting noise from the hard drive its about to fail. Your drive starts making a click click sound or a grind and your system bogs down a lot because it has to access the drive to get its data.

Answer 3

If the noise is coming from your drive, then its clearly related to your drive and not anything else.

I would suggest backing up everything you want to keep, and getting a new HD. The last time my drive started making more noise than usual, it was ruined a few days later and no data could be retrieved from it.

Answer 4

is it a clicking sound ?

Click Of Death, Click Death, and COD are names describing the first symptom of a set of serious data threatening problems being encountered with increasing frequency among users of Iomega's Zip and Jaz removable media mass storage systems.

Without any warning a Click Of Death drive begins emitting a series of audible and distinctive clicking sounds, either when a cartridge is first inserted or when attempting to read or write data to or from a previously inserted cartridge.

The word "Death" appears in the names for this problem since that's exactly what occurs in real life: Minutes, hours, or days after the clicking is first heard, the drive -- and usually one or more of the user's cartridges -- suddenly dies without warning. And since people tend to rely heavily upon their Zip and Jaz cartridges for the storage of their important data, this typically results in spontaneous, catastrophic, irreversible, loss of all their data.

The uncertain nature of this problem, coupled with the catastrophic loss of so much user data, and the fact that a COD drive starts damaging its own cartridges -- which in turn appear to be "infected" with Click Death -- has generated a great deal of superstition and mythology, not to mention anger, on the part of Iomega's users.

Iomega Corporation's reaction to this very real problem has been difficult to understand, since they've been largely unwilling to acknowledge and accept any responsibility for this very real defect in many of their products. As you can see when you browse the typical Click of Death web sites on the Internet, Iomega's policy of denial has fueled the fire and greatly upset their users more than anything ... even to the point of causing their users to file class action lawsuits.

Iomega's customers are understandably unhappy because they feel that more warning should have somehow been provided to them, and that Iomega should be taking some reasonable responsibility for this sudden death problem. But so far it hasn't.

Answer 5

Interference!
..please make sure that all the unit include monitor, motherboard and also any electrical appliences at the recomended distance, far from each other or not too close. interference can make funny noice when you use the computer. inteference also can come up from a big magnetic field. If your motherboard come with interference shield please turn it on..........


Good luck!

Answer 6

It is possible that it is the fan. My question would be is when is the last time you opened it up and cleaned out all the dust bunnies that are probably hiding inside and clogging your fan and making your hard drive work harder and and and and and!

Answer 7

You may have a dirty read-write head. Take your computer in to an authorized computer repair station, as you cannot fix such a problem yourself. Unless you have the dexterity of an android.

Answer 8

Get Norton's ghost and make an image of your drive. Get a new hard drive and ghost it. This way you can install the new drive. Your hard drive will die soon.

Answer 9

your harddrive is starting to come to an end. I'm serious. back up everything you can and get a new harddrive.