I had been experiencing problems with my old Western Digital 40 Gig Hard Drive (not sure on RPM). It made a constant humming sound and occasionally, every 10 minutes or less, it would make an extremely loud whirring-type sound that lasts about 2-3 seconds and stops. Also, my CPU usage is very high when doing simple tasks such as opening webpages, but the CPU spiking and the hard drive sound is not simultaneous, so I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem. Anyways, I decided to purchase a new WD 120 gig 7200 RPM hard drive last week and the constant humming sound is not present, but the 2-3 second whirring sound is exactly the same. I was thinking this may be a problem with my power supply, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help me out??
Hi, welcome to HWF All i can think of is that the Hard Drive is on its way out if its making unusual sounds like that.
I think I'm going to try and get some more RAM before I totally give up. I've ran a few tests on my hard drive and they don't detect anything wrong.
The ram cant be causing a whirling sound on your hard drive though, bad ram causes thngs like resets and stuff games not working properly or windows not installing sometimes or BSODs.
try monitor your hard drive with a S.M.A.R.T tool if your hardDriver supports SMART ofc. Search for "hard drive smart" in google and you get the tools for this in the very first few results. Good luck
It could also be one of the fans..... try and disable the fans (not the CPU one) and see if the sound stops.... The reason for mentioning it is that my Freezer 4 bearing is on its way to meet its maker and it sometimes makes a terrible noise....
