Hello,
I've been having some trouble with my PC (Asus, OS: Windows 7) lately and I'm fairly sure it's a hardware component failing. I think I've had this computer for about three years now. I'm not that savvy with hardware, so I'd appreciate someone helping me out as to what exactly is failing.
About three weeks ago, my computer started making clicking noises when it started up and occasionally when I was working on it, but that was the only change (nothing slower, nothing refused to open, nothing magically disappearing). I think/thought it was my RAM, because that clicking sound happened whenever I would close a video after watching it for a while or after closing a "complicated" program — typical times at which the computer frees RAM. The noise did not occur if I moved, opened or saved files.
Yesterday, everything worked fine; the occasional clicking described above is the only thing worth mentioning. Today, I start the computer and nothing lights up: the computer is running but there's no output to the screen, the receiver for mouse and keyboard (I have wireless ones) does not show any light and neither does the Ethernet plug in the back, which is usually lit up in orange. So I hold the power button down and restart it, and this time, things light up in a normal manner and it does show me the desktop (though it takes an unusual long time).
I decide to run chkdsk, but just clicking on the Windows symbol to open the Start Menu and entering "chkdsk" took so long I decided to restart the computer yet again. The whole process was a bit faster this time, but still abnormally slow. Eventually I manage to run chkdsk (it took about five minutes, what with the waiting time between every single operation) and it takes about two minutes for it to show the first line (something along the lines of "This hard drive uses NTFS") and after the second line, lo!, blue screen...
To sum up a long story:
- I've been having clicking for quite some time
- No problems with files or operations with files
- Computer painfully slow today, crashes during moderately simple tasks (chkdsk)
Please note that one or both fans have been making terrible noises which would disappear again. However, as far as I can tell (which means not much at all), I don't think that's relevant to the problem.
I've also never had any odd beeps on start-up, which I've read is an indicator for RAM failure.
Thanks,
Lucas
I've been having some trouble with my PC (Asus, OS: Windows 7) lately and I'm fairly sure it's a hardware component failing. I think I've had this computer for about three years now. I'm not that savvy with hardware, so I'd appreciate someone helping me out as to what exactly is failing.
About three weeks ago, my computer started making clicking noises when it started up and occasionally when I was working on it, but that was the only change (nothing slower, nothing refused to open, nothing magically disappearing). I think/thought it was my RAM, because that clicking sound happened whenever I would close a video after watching it for a while or after closing a "complicated" program — typical times at which the computer frees RAM. The noise did not occur if I moved, opened or saved files.
Yesterday, everything worked fine; the occasional clicking described above is the only thing worth mentioning. Today, I start the computer and nothing lights up: the computer is running but there's no output to the screen, the receiver for mouse and keyboard (I have wireless ones) does not show any light and neither does the Ethernet plug in the back, which is usually lit up in orange. So I hold the power button down and restart it, and this time, things light up in a normal manner and it does show me the desktop (though it takes an unusual long time).
I decide to run chkdsk, but just clicking on the Windows symbol to open the Start Menu and entering "chkdsk" took so long I decided to restart the computer yet again. The whole process was a bit faster this time, but still abnormally slow. Eventually I manage to run chkdsk (it took about five minutes, what with the waiting time between every single operation) and it takes about two minutes for it to show the first line (something along the lines of "This hard drive uses NTFS") and after the second line, lo!, blue screen...
To sum up a long story:
- I've been having clicking for quite some time
- No problems with files or operations with files
- Computer painfully slow today, crashes during moderately simple tasks (chkdsk)
Please note that one or both fans have been making terrible noises which would disappear again. However, as far as I can tell (which means not much at all), I don't think that's relevant to the problem.
I've also never had any odd beeps on start-up, which I've read is an indicator for RAM failure.
Thanks,
Lucas
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