urgent need help!!

[VanillaYogurt]

i just had a power surge at my home and once it came back on i booted my pc and now its making a humming noise.... what should i do and how alarmed should i be because im freaking out right now, i opend the case and i think its cumming from my hard drive..............and its stopped i think..... i cant lose my pc not now, i cant afford to replace the whole thing. its just sitting at like 0-4% usage on task manager.http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah51/Joseph_Downing/nothing_zpsgujpnmvz.png~original

 

[ZENprime]

Seems it missed a hit , as long as every part is working and is read by windows
Buy a good surge protector cord from APC , they make nice models to protect your connected equipment from most power surges

 

[scout_03]

check if it come from the psu and yes a surge protector is always usefull for computer .

 

[VanillaYogurt]

check if it come from the psu and yes a surge protector is always usefull for computer .

im like 90% sure it came from the hard drive, but it stopped minuets later. everything still seems to be running fine. i have a brand new surge protector, i just have to find it.

 

[scout_03]

then use your drive maker test tool to check the hdd health .

 

[VanillaYogurt]

ok so i went to bed last night and this morning after booting up my pc its humming again, although not as bad as it did last night. i don't have a hdd health checker, and if i do i don't know were to find it. but now that its not as loud i cant seem to figure out were its cumming from. its not like a fan blowing air its more like a "hmmmmmm" sound.

 

[Shantanu Ghose]

ok so i went to bed last night and this morning after booting up my pc its humming again, although not as bad as it did last night. i don't have a hdd health checker, and if i do i don't know were to find it. but now that its not as loud i cant seem to figure out were its cumming from. its not like a fan blowing air its more like a "hmmmmmm" sound.

Try downloading crystaldiskinfo and scan your drive.

 

[VanillaYogurt]

annnnnnd just like that its gone again. i dont know whats causing this sound but its starting to get mess with me. but there is a humming cumming from my psu but i can only hear it once i get close to it. so here is my pc (CORSAIR CX series CX500 500W ATX12V v2.3 PSU/ HIS iCooler Radeon HD 7770 H777F1G2M 1GB GPU/ Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB HDD/ Pentium G2030 Ivy Bridge Dual-Core 3.0 GHz CPU/ Gigabyte Ultra Durable 4 Classic GA-H61M-DS2 DVI Motherboard) just in case this will help, also maybe i can get some help picking a affordable replacement for whatever part is causing this, if it cant be fixed.

 

[scout_03]

that psu is still under warranty ask for a rma . to made shure it is the psu try one from a friend in your system .

 

[VanillaYogurt]

that psu is still under warranty ask for a rma . to made shure it is the psu try one from a friend in your system .

i got my psu off newegg along with everything else, do i go to newegg or the manufacturer for a return? neweggs site says 3year return policy but when i go to order history it says not eligible for return....

 

[Karadjgne]

Press on the sides of your case when the humming is present. See if the humming goes away. One of my cases had a nasty hum when the hdd would spin up, turns out it was the panel not quite properly seated, and didn't start till I moved the case and relieved / added tension.

 

[VanillaYogurt]

Press on the sides of your case when the humming is present. See if the humming goes away. One of my cases had a nasty hum when the hdd would spin up, turns out it was the panel not quite properly seated, and didn't start till I moved the case and relieved / added tension.

ok so i did this and restarted my pc and that's not it. but i will say that im still having a hard time finding were the noise it coming from. im like 90% sure its my HDD because i can fell it vibrating and the loudest i hear it is next to the HDD.... is there a way to test this if i do not have a spare HDD? i ran the seatools from the seagate website and it passed the tests.... the noise is weird it starts shortly after my pc boots up and starts and then goes away like 10-15 minutes after that and then i hear nothing the rest of the time untill i restart or power on my pc the nextday. i have been thinking this over with my mum and she thinks if i have to sink much more money into this current rig i might aswell get a new rig once blackfriday rolls around,(so far since i built this system in feb2014 costing 522$ including windows 8.1 at the time, i have only spent 45$ on ram. that is still on its way in the mail) i would like to avoid this since its not my money paying for all this. and i cant start thinking of a new rig untill i can figure out what is wrong with mine and see if i can reuse anything from this rig. im 100% sure its not my GPU.... so thats a start i guess. i just hope its not my cpu...... if i cant find any decent intel 1155 gaming cpu's that are a decent price then that means i have to find a diff motherboard which in the end will end up costing a bundle. i just need a reliable/durable gaming/everyday life pc. in the end this comes down to if its going to be cheaper in the longrun to replace a part or build a new system, this is something i cant decide for myself so i ask you this, in the long run will it be cheaper to replace the part granted IF i find out whats wrong(on a system i built almost 2 years ago) or build a new system? sorry if this is getting a little off track i know i went from trying to find out where a noise is coming from and if i should be worried to thinking of building a new rig over a noise.

 

[westom]

im like 90% sure its my HDD because i can fell it vibrating and the loudest i hear it is next to the HDD.... is there a way to test this if i do not have a spare HDD?

Apparently something is vibrating most when cold. Remove the drive. Connect it to the rest of the computer while holding the drive in your hand. Does that cold drive vibrate? A vibrating drive will fail prematurely.

Meanwhile you do not describe a surge. A power off (zero volts) is not a surge (many thousands of volts). But if you had a surge, an adjacent protector may even compromise superior protection inside the PSU. Only proven protection connects within meters to earth ground. Protection increases as separation between protector and computer increases. IOW that was completely irrelevant to your noise.

Locate vibrating parts - a mechanical defect that may only get worse. It was not cause by an electrical anomaly. Also in that list of suspects are fans.

 

[VanillaYogurt]

ok so first and foremost, thank you everyone thats helped me... i found out the problem. it was a CD in my old cd drive that i had forgotten to take out and it was making the noise.

 

[Karadjgne]

Rofl

 

[scout_03]

then it will cost around 30$ on black friday for a new dvd reader and writer .