im a bit sad

[Zangor]

well we will know for sure what the problem is son....my mom is going to take it in to a professional.
also it currently has a 400gb hard drive so i would hope i can get a similar drive as a replacement if that is indeed my problem

[Saturo]

If you're going to be replacing the harddrive, go for 2 tb right away. Harddrives are fairly cheap, and 400 gb isn't a lot.

[Zangor]

one final update.
im still without my desktop to play WoW but i have made a huge amount of progress on finding the root of my problems.
im still pretty sure its the hard drive failing i even have stronger reasons for this now because it makes lots of sounds similar to failing hard drivs whenever its in use bt when i use BIOS to scan the noise stops....save for the usual low humm computers make.
i also went and found specs on the drive thats installed and im definately looking into getting a bigger hard drive if i need to replace the current one

[Saturo]

If the hard drive is making weird noises now, it probably won't last for long. Burn out a Linux LiveCD, and boot from it (since it's not on the harddrive you won't get any crashes, and it doesn't overwrite anything) and then use that to back your stuff up.

http://www.ubuntu.com/ (Don't click install when it asks you to, choose to "Try Linux" instead.)

[Anyia]

Yeah, clicking drives are a sure sign they're about to fail completely on you. Last time I had that happen on me was on my laptop, and I was trying to hold out until I could buy an external drive (NAS) to back up to, but alas the drive died on me about an hour before I had the backup drive ready to go.

Moral of the story - if your drive is a'clickin', get yourself a new one a'quicken!

[Zangor]

well my mom finally got around to bringing it into a computer shop and from what i can tell hes done several tests and some passed and a few failed. so theres definately something hardware related going on ill know whats going on by monday and then we can try and get the repairs and replacements it might need