I have not had this problem long but its truely scarey. This has happened only one other time during the summer and now. It only started happening recently again after I started to overclock.
Last summer I started having a strange issue where it sounded like my system was shutting off. I could hear the distinct ker-chunk + whine when the system shuts down followed by the spin-up sound a second or two later; nothing except the noise happens (no errors/shut down/flashes/etc.). This happened several times over the span of a couple days and just never happened again. I did ask a local computer specialist about it and had not a clue.
Recently, a couple months afterwards, I started to overclock. Originally a couple months ago with no problems; I ran into other issues and had to leave the overclocking for later. I had it set to the most stable variables I had last time with great success. With my Radeon, I did artifact scanning with ATI Tool just in case when I started getting that "shut-down" issue again. Only when I used ATI Tool. Happened twice, no more. While playing FEAR tonight, several days later, I had a complete system failure. My computer crashed followed by that distinct "ker-chunk + whine". The system reboots and hangs until I hear [The HDD?] spin up and every thing runs like nothing happened except a Windows "Your system had recovered from a major crash" error.
Im wondering if this is my HDD failing on me or if it some thing I am actually doing wrong. I am really not in a position to go out and grab a new 120 gig drive so if my drive is dieing I am going to start backing up my vitals to CD until the drive actually *dies*. Thanks much!
Last summer I started having a strange issue where it sounded like my system was shutting off. I could hear the distinct ker-chunk + whine when the system shuts down followed by the spin-up sound a second or two later; nothing except the noise happens (no errors/shut down/flashes/etc.). This happened several times over the span of a couple days and just never happened again. I did ask a local computer specialist about it and had not a clue.
Recently, a couple months afterwards, I started to overclock. Originally a couple months ago with no problems; I ran into other issues and had to leave the overclocking for later. I had it set to the most stable variables I had last time with great success. With my Radeon, I did artifact scanning with ATI Tool just in case when I started getting that "shut-down" issue again. Only when I used ATI Tool. Happened twice, no more. While playing FEAR tonight, several days later, I had a complete system failure. My computer crashed followed by that distinct "ker-chunk + whine". The system reboots and hangs until I hear [The HDD?] spin up and every thing runs like nothing happened except a Windows "Your system had recovered from a major crash" error.
Im wondering if this is my HDD failing on me or if it some thing I am actually doing wrong. I am really not in a position to go out and grab a new 120 gig drive so if my drive is dieing I am going to start backing up my vitals to CD until the drive actually *dies*. Thanks much!