Harddisk clicks -> System freezes/reboots
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 06:05:20 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:57 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> I had a similar problem late last year. My new power supply (5 months
> old) in my desktop wasn't putting out the correct voltage on the +5V
> rail. The drive would click and then stop. As it was one of the RAID 1
> drives, this was causing me some headaches. Any drive tests showed the
> drive to be okay. Changing the power supply fixed the issue. Did a
> full drive test on the drive before putting it back in. No issues
> showed up.
>
> If you can, check the power supply voltages.
I concur. When I bought my new machine last year it did the same thing,
rebooting, clicking, bucking and farting like a wide mouth mule. I took
it back, they replaced the power supply and I've never had another
moments problem with it. Ric
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