So the past two weeks or so I've been having a knockdown dragout fight with the pc I built 6 years ago. It started with my cpu overheating and causing my computer to crash. I cleaned the fand and reapplied new thermal paste and havent had overheating problems since. However, my hard drive gave me the click of death and my computer began running slow and randomly crashing. I backed up important files to an external and did a fresh windows install to no avail. The hdd was toast. So I buy a new one. It gets here and within 6 hours it's giving me the click of death and not booting windows. At this point I check the voltages coming from the PSU, but they're all normal. I've tried new SATA and data cables with no fix. The only logical explanation is a bad mobo at this point right?

Asus p8z77-v le plus
i5 3570k
Radeon Sapphire 7950 hd
Seagate barracuda 1tb

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Posted by Eternalmajin

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Posted on 1/3/17 at 1:20 pm to Drewbie

Can you get into BIOS when first turning on the machine? Click of death is usually exclusively the hard drive, so it's possible you got in a dud (it happens).

Any change to where the computer is located or how securely the drives were installed? Wondering if there's bad vibrations/etc causing the HDDs to shake off balance while in use.

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Posted on 1/3/17 at 1:22 pm to Eternalmajin

Oh there's no doubt the new hdd is dead, but I'm wondering if it's the mobo killing it. Could be possible that I just got shitty luck. As for new placement, none at all. Everything is still the same. And yes i can get into bios just fine

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Posted on 1/3/17 at 2:23 pm to Drewbie

Nope. Definitely the hard drive. I guess my question is would it be worth it to just play it safe and replace the mobo while also replacing the hard drive? I just find it odd that it's only the two separate hard drives that have failed while everything else appears to be working fine.

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Posted by Eternalmajin

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Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:12 pm to Drewbie

6 years old, so if it's in the budget replacing the mobo/processor couldn't hurt for longevity of the machine. IMO, I'd be more worried about vibrations of some sort screwing up two drives back to back in a short time than I would about the mobo being bad. Though you could always go SSD, trading in money or capacity for the speed/stability.

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Posted on 1/4/17 at 2:26 pm to Eternalmajin

It might be the disc reader shaking the case now that I think about it. Nex time around I'll keep the hard drive out on the desk while i'm doing the install with the disc and see if that helps.

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