Clicking noise while streaming video then shutdown

[Blaircroft]

I have a computer that after 10 minutes of watching streaming video begins to click then shuts the browser down. Before i replaced the PSU it was causing the computer to restart. I have made sure the Browser and video drivers are up to date.

 

[Melvis]

Sounds a bit odd, but the only thing i can think of to make a clicking sound would be your HDD? unless this "click" is coming from your speakers?

Give us more info would be great thanks?

 

[JrRacinFan]

That's a hard drive fault alright. Before you go further, try swapping cables. If that does not come back successful then whatever was causing problems beforehand in the past had created a butterfly effect with the hdd. Sounds like you had a bad psu and it killed your hdd.

 

[Blaircroft]

Sounds a bit odd, but the only thing i can think of to make a clicking sound would be your HDD? unless this "click" is coming from your speakers?

Give us more info would be great thanks?

Thanks for the response some more information about the system would be:

OS: XP Pro
Mobo: 8200 Geforce mobo
CPU: +5400 3.0ghz
GPU: 8600 GT
HDD: 500GB Western Digital
PSU: 250W HP

I almost cant tell if the clicking sound is comming from the speakers or HDD

 

[xBruce88x]

i'm wondering if the 250w power supply isn't enough for the 8600GT. what are you streaming? err... like hulu or youtube? what kinda case is it in?

 

[f22a4bandit]

Hot damn, I'm surprised you're running at all with a 250 watt psu! It's possible that your psu did cause your drive to (possibly) go bad.

I've had a clicking sound with my speakers before, but once I upgraded to a better system (I think maybe an old roomies dog did some damage to the cords) the clicking sound automatically went away. Make sure to turn off your speakers to narrow down the clicking sound to the exact culprit, and then report back. Good luck!

 

[95Viper]

I have to agree on the PSU... If that is a HP 250W PSU.

Don't know what brand video card it is, but this is EVGA's take on it.
What are the power requirements of an EVGA 8 series graphics card?

These are requirements at stock max draw, but that PSU from HP is either a Bestec or Lite-on and AFAIK... they only put out around 15A continuous and around 18A max.
And, as they age they will have a degradation of output.

You might be starving the system of juice.
Take a pic of the spec sticker on it and post.

Ex. Lite-on version of HP 250W 353012-001 or 351070-001(inter-changeable)

Spoiler

 

[Blaircroft]

i'm wondering if the 250w power supply isn't enough for the 8600GT. what are you streaming? err... like hulu or youtube? what kinda case is it in?

Lol actually i just put this one in a couple of days ago the old PSU was 500W. With the old PSU the system would shut off so i wanted to test with a different PSU the 250W is all i had. Keep in mind the system was doing the same thing before except shutting off completely. All this system does is stream video from Netflix,sidereel,Hulu. The PSU is actually the original PSU for the case it was a HP pre build. The GPU,Mobo,HDD,CPU did not come with the pre built case.

 

[scaminatrix]

Could it be coming from your mobo? I've heard a clicking sound coming from PC's when the mobo is on it's way out - either from the mosfet's or vrm's. How old is the mobo?

 

[Blaircroft]

I bought the mobo about 3 years ago. So far its only doing it while streaming Hulu, or Side Reel. It shut down again today so t he the old PSU might still be good.

 

[95Viper]

Just a thought... You have not left a cd\dvd in your drive?

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Use the paper towel roll core to try and localize it (the noise).

 

[Blaircroft]

Just a thought... You have not left a cd\dvd in your drive?

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Use the paper towel roll core to try and localize it (the noise).

You mean is there a CD in the drive jiggleing around? lol no

 

[Melvis]

Thanks for the response some more information about the system would be:

OS: XP Pro
Mobo: 8200 Geforce mobo
CPU: +5400 3.0ghz
GPU: 8600 GT
HDD: 500GB Western Digital
PSU: 250W HP

I almost cant tell if the clicking sound is comming from the speakers or HDD

Have you teased to see if ya still get this clicking noise with ya speakers off? if so it sounds like ya HDD is dieing.

Yea your old PSU sounds like it be fine, put it back in.

 

[micropage7]

i agree, but you need to make sure its from HDD of the other
but from what you write it looks the HDD is dying, better you save the data to other media

 

[unsmart]

Have you tried running any benches like Unigine or Sandrasoft and checking temps? Have you checked to see if the HDD light was blinking when the clicking starts? I had a clicking issue onces and it was a stray cable hitting CPU fan and would shut down under stress. If all your doing is streaming low rez vids how about just trying the onboard GFX. fewer parts, fewer problems.

 

[scaminatrix]

I'm guessing mobo mate.

Download and burn Memtest, turn off PC and remove HDD and ODD.
Run Memtest.
If you don't hear the ticking, apply a slight OC to your CPU.
Run Memtest.
IF you hear clicking, it's your mobo's VRM's/MOSFET's.

If you still don't hear ticking, disregard my post completely

 

[JrRacinFan]

Just thought of something,I wonder if it isn't the video cards fan with something hitting it. You know CUDA/GPU accelerated video, may be kicking up clocks and fan speed, therefore fan click.

 

[scaminatrix]

lol just re-read the OP with awake eyes, completely ignore post #16!!!

EDIT: Check windows error logs.
It sounds like your old PSU had a feature that shuts it off when something becomes unsafe, but this PSU doesn't, so Windows is dealing with it. Thus should show in an error log.