[SOLVED] Not sure if HDD damaged or another issue

[xdeithwenx]

Hi all,

About a week ago a member of my family was doing work on our home and the power tripped a few times whilst I was on my computer. I do have a surge protector, but no UPS, and the computer showed no signs of issue immediately afterwards.

I've noticed recently that when I boot up the computer, when I get to the Windows login screen something is repeatedly powering up and down with a slight "clicking" noise. I'm fairly certain this is one of my hard drives. Note that this only seems to happen during the start up of the computer. Whilst it may not be relevant, this seems to happen around the same point as when software starts to kick in (CAM, MSI Afterburner), because my graphics card fans and lights turn off and on again (from default settings to software-controlled); the software is not installed on these drives.

I've tested both using various software, and they both come up as healthy. I'm still able to access both, and neither have any corrupted files. I don't use these hard drives for anything major, and have backed them up.

I also have 3 SSD's. As they have no moving parts I doubt it's them because of the clicking, but perhaps they're also a possibility?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Grobe]

why not just share the s.m.a.r.t. readings for the drive and mabe someone can tell id the drive is likely go soon become broken or not ?

 

[xdeithwenx]

* DiskCheckup V3.4 Build: 1003 Report *

SysInfo DLL Version: SysInfo v1.0 Build: 1122
Time of export: 18:19:39 15-Nov-2019

Device information:
Device ID: 1
Interface: SATA
Device Capacity: 953867 MB
Serial Number: WD-WCC3F6KDU6ZU
Model Number: WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0

SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Status Value Worst Threshold Raw Value TEC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Raw Read Error Rate OK 200 200 51 0 N/A
3 Spin Up Time OK 192 172 21 1400 N/A
4 Start/Stop Count OK 100 100 0 911 N/A
5 Reallocated Sector Count OK 200 200 140 0 N/A
7 Seek Error Rate OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
9 Power On Time OK 92 92 0 6223 N/A
10 Spin Retry Count OK 100 100 0 0 N/A
11 Calibration Retry Count OK 100 100 0 0 N/A
12 Power Cycle Count OK 100 100 0 896 N/A
192 Power off Retract Count OK 200 200 0 95 N/A
193 Load Cycle Count OK 200 200 0 815 N/A
194 Temperature OK 109 99 0 34 C N/A
196 Reallocation Event Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
197 Current Pending Sector Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
200 Write Error Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A

* DiskCheckup V3.4 Build: 1003 Report *

SysInfo DLL Version: SysInfo v1.0 Build: 1122
Time of export: 18:19:48 15-Nov-2019

Device information:
Device ID: 2
Interface: SATA
Device Capacity: 953867 MB
Serial Number: WD-WCC3F2080785
Model Number: WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0

SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Status Value Worst Threshold Raw Value TEC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Raw Read Error Rate OK 200 200 51 0 N/A
3 Spin Up Time OK 196 167 21 1158 N/A
4 Start/Stop Count OK 100 100 0 907 N/A
5 Reallocated Sector Count OK 200 200 140 0 N/A
7 Seek Error Rate OK 100 253 0 0 N/A
9 Power On Time OK 92 92 0 6224 N/A
10 Spin Retry Count OK 100 100 0 0 N/A
11 Calibration Retry Count OK 100 100 0 0 N/A
12 Power Cycle Count OK 100 100 0 892 N/A
192 Power off Retract Count OK 200 200 0 91 N/A
193 Load Cycle Count OK 200 200 0 815 N/A
194 Temperature OK 108 99 0 35 C N/A
196 Reallocation Event Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
197 Current Pending Sector Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A
200 Write Error Count OK 200 200 0 0 N/A

 

[Grobe]

From what I can see here, there is nothing wrong with your hdd's.

However, always backup important files - good rule to follow: don't trust that any hdd will live until next day

 

[xdeithwenx]

Found the issue;
http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/7163/z390-master-rgb-fusion-shutdown

 

[Grobe]

Thanks for feedback.

But just to be clear of what your solution is, did you installed an older version of Aorus Engine (1.5.5) and also an older version of RGB fusion - and that solved the problem ?