Question Aggressive shut down on an old PC ?

[Emmet_Brown]

Hello! So I recently got this old PC from a relative and it seems to work fine, except for the fact that it shuts down very aggressively.
The computer runs Windows 7. When I open the Start Menu and I click the Shut Down button, the Shut Down process initiates and after a few seconds the Hard Disk clicks and stops. I do not think that this is normal.

 

[rgd1101]

could replace it(the hdd)

 

[Bob.B]

Hello! So I recently got this old PC from a relative and it seems to work fine, except for the fact that it shuts down very aggressively.
The computer runs Windows 7. When I open the Start Menu and I click the Shut Down button, the Shut Down process initiates and after a few seconds the Hard Disk clicks and stops. I do not think that this is normal.

Other than the shutdown is too speedy for your liking does everything else work?

 

[Emmet_Brown]

Other than the shutdown is too speedy for your liking does everything else work?

Yeah, pretty much. I installed HDD Sentinel and the drive's health is 99% and the performance is 100%. The problem is that the HDD clicks once and then shuts down before the screen goes black.

 

[Bob.B]

Yeah, pretty much. I installed HDD Sentinel and the drive's health is 99% and the performance is 100%. The problem is that the HDD clicks once and then shuts down before the screen goes black.

It's your call.
I don't think I would fix something that was not causing a problem.

 

[Emmet_Brown]

It's your call.
I don't think I would fix something that was not causing a problem.

Yeah, you´re right. ´´If it ain´t broke, don´t fix it.´´ Thanks for replying!

 

[Nine Layer Nige]

I wonder if its doing a "parking" action which could be normal behaivious. I may be wrong but I somehow recall that with some really old IDE drives. Pre-sata era.

 

[Emmet_Brown]

I wonder if its doing a "parking" action which could be normal behaivious. I may be wrong but I somehow recall that with some really old IDE drives. Pre-sata era.

It´s an ATA drive (Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive - WD1600JB-22REA0). Is this normal behaviour for ATA drives too?

 

[SkyNetRising]

It´s an ATA drive (Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive - WD1600JB-22REA0).

That thing is probably at least 15 years old. Be thankful that it still works.
Have you considered upgrading to SSD?

 

[Emmet_Brown]

That thing is probably at least 15 years old. Be thankful that it still works.
Have you considered upgrading to SSD?

I am only planning to use this thing to capture content from a tape-based camera using a Firewire card. Most of those cards do not work well with newer computers and operating systems, that's why I got this old PC. I reinstalled Windows 7 and it runs very well, as it's only got 2 programs installed and it's not even connected to the Internet, because its only purpose is to capture the content that the camera feeds it. My only worry is the hard drive's behaviour, cuz everything else seems to work fine for what I want this PC to do. An SSD could indeed be useful for other tasks, but capturing content over firewire is done in real time. Of course, if the HDD stops working I will replace it with an SSD. Thanks for your reply!

 

[Zerk2012]

Hello! So I recently got this old PC from a relative and it seems to work fine, except for the fact that it shuts down very aggressively.
The computer runs Windows 7. When I open the Start Menu and I click the Shut Down button, the Shut Down process initiates and after a few seconds the Hard Disk clicks and stops. I do not think that this is normal.

You get a click from the HDD when the head parks same as when it starts up, normal.
Your using the HDD then shutdown so the HDD clicks when it's stops.

 

[Emmet_Brown]

You get a click from the HDD when the head parks same as when it starts up, normal.
Your using the HDD then shutdown so the HDD clicks when it's stops.

The only strange thing is the fact that the HDD stops while the screen is still lit, displaying the ''Shutting down'' text with the Windows 7 background. Maybe this is normal for really old computers which do not have SATA drives, cuz for the newer models the HDD stops after the screen goes black.

 

[Bob.B]

The only strange thing is the fact that the HDD stops while the screen is still lit, displaying the ''Shutting down'' text with the Windows 7 background. Maybe this is normal for really old computers which do not have SATA drives, cuz for the newer models the HDD stops after the screen goes black.

If the hdd turned off before the OS was finished writing to it I would think you would see some sort of error the next time you tried to run the OS.

 

[Emmet_Brown]

If the hdd turned off before the OS was finished writing to it I would think you would see some sort of error the next time you tried to run the OS.

There's no error, so I suppose it's normal behaviour. Thank you for your reply!