Loud pc noise at startup

[Scrazeloppe]

so ever since a year ago my pc has been making a loud noise at startup. I found out it was definitely the optical drive as i felt the vibrations most from there. The only way i found to fix it was bang on the top of the optical drive of my case. But i would like to disable the optical drive from booting so i don't have to hear a loud noise every time. Can anyone tell me a way to fix this? I don't have the money to go out and buy a new optical drive atm


UPDATE: Due to the grinding of my old dvd drive, I believe it was actually my HDD.Today windows was telling me my hdd is going to fail soon, and i found out it had to do with bad sectors. The grinding sound was comming from my hdd and causing it to break.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, I guess you're in real trouble then because if you can't afford 16.00 for a new optical drive you certainly can't afford a new HDD. This is about as cheap as you're going to find one for, unless you go really small on the drive.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $53.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-05 01:45 EDT-0400

 

[Scrazeloppe]

Alright I guess I have to buy new parts, this pc has lasted me long. Hope it can fit the new HDD and optical drive tho since its pretty old with a micro atx intel motherboard I believe.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Is it a pre-built or custom build pc? Regardless, if it was built within the last ten years, you should be able to upgrade those components without much trouble. If it was pre-built, what is the complete model number of the unit? Regardless of prebuilt or custom, the motherboard will have much to do with it. If you can look on the motherboard and find the model number I would be happy to determine what you are able to do.

 

[Scrazeloppe]

The motherboard is Intel DG41TY prebuilt i got it in 2010 but it was pretty old and cheap.

 

[Scrazeloppe]

Wish I knew what caused this. I know ppl who have survived longer than 4 years

 

[Darkbreeze]

Any motherboard from 2010 should be able to support an SSD. I would recommend not replacing your hard drive with another hard drive. SSDs have gotten cheap enough to only use HDDs for storage. Of course, your potential budget will be the biggest factor.

Hardware just fails. Some people buy a car that lasts 200,000 miles or more before the engine fails. Another person can buy the exact same vehicle and have the engine crap out two weeks later. Stuff just fails sometimes. Maybe something happened on the assembly line or too much solder, not enough solder, slightly misaligned, on one spot and it fails prematurely. Could be anything. Could have gotten too hot in your case and caused the hard drive to fail.

Might want to make sure all case fans are working. Make sure the CPU fan and heatsink also are not full of crap and dust while your in there. Same goes for the power supply. If you find any of those to have a build up of junk, get a couple cans of compressed air or use an air compressor and blow them out until they and the inside of the case, are clean. If all of the case fans are not working, and working correctly, it would be very easy for a hard drive to get too hot and fail. Here are three options. One is for an SSD. One is for a hard drive. And one is for both.



240 GB Kingston SSD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($100.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $100.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-07 22:35 EDT-0400



1 TB Seagate hard disk drive:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $53.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-07 22:36 EDT-0400




Kingston 120GB SSD and Seagate 1TB hard disk drive (You would use the SSD for the boot drive, which would be very fast and increase performance, and the HDD for storage of files, games, pictures, music, etc.):

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($58.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $112.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-07 22:39 EDT-0400

 

[Scrazeloppe]

Seems good, I probably broke it by hitting the top of my case. Reason was cause it would make a noise every morning when my pc booted up. Guess I hit it enough to start getting damaged. Thanks for everything

 

[Scrazeloppe]

Cheapest one in my region is http://www.futureshop.ca/en-ca/product/western-digital-western-digital-1tb-3-5-desktop-internal-hard-drive-wd1003fzex-english-wd1003fzex/10298529.aspx?path=bd4dc87e2d62dd8ffebbde3242f20d11en02 I don't buy online I usually go to a store near me.

 

[Darkbreeze]

That drive should work fine. It's 7200 RPM with a 64mb cache buffer and it's Western digital so it should be fairly decent for a standard HDD. It's a bit expensive for what it is, but if that's what's available to you regionally, then it is what it is.