A low tone clicking sound?

I just finished my new computer, just one problem. I think its the ide cables or the hard drive. The sound is a low tone click sound and the hard drive stops. Did i break the wires in the ide cable and its shorting?
this happens every so often. Everything runs fine when it doesn't click. I am running a raid 0 on a kr7a-raid board. can anyone help me with this one?

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NEW COMPUTER

Lian-Li PC-67
Abit KR7A-RAID
AMD XP 1900
512MB PC2100 RAM
Enermax 431w
2x 40GB Maxtor D740x
VisionTek Ti 200
S.Blaster audigy XGamer
CD-ROM Blaster 52X
Yamaha 20x10x40 Burner
Sony 1.44mb floppy
OS- win2k

Double check the wires for carmel smell and browning.
BUT ,if the sound is coming from the harddrive and from what you describe it is .
The the harddrive is FUBARED RMA it and get another one.

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Faster than freedom more nasty than hell.


Current system:
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz 266MHz
Swiftech MC462-A Hsf
Abit KG7 MoBo
1Gig Pc 2400 DDR cas 2.0 Ram 300MHZ
16x Dvd LiteOn
24x 10x 40x LiteOn
1 18gig Cheetah 15,000rpm
2 60gig 60 Gxp
Santa Cruz for now(Turtle Beach`s Dominater later)
Morpheus Geforce 3 (Geforce 3 Ultra later)
3com nic
431 Watt Enermax power supply

funny hard drive sounds are not good....they're even worse when you notice poor performance when it's making odd sounds....my guess is you have a bad/dying hard drive, and an RMA is in order

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Aopen H600a case w/300W Aopen psu
Athlon XP 1800 @ 1691 (fsb@147)
Alpha PAL8045 w/46.1cfm Delta
Epox 8kha+
512MB Micron PC2100
PNY Geforce3 Ti500
SB Live MP3+
HP 10x4x32
Acer 50x
Maxtor D740x 40GB
WD 5400rpm 30GB
Win2k Pro

The ide cables are not causing this?

I ask because i just finished installing win2k and all my drivers and programs. I guess i will back my system up?

thnx for the help

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NEW COMPUTER

Lian-Li PC-67
Abit KR7A-RAID
AMD XP 1900
512MB PC2100 RAM
Enermax 431w
2x 40GB Maxtor D740x
VisionTek Ti 200
S.Blaster audigy XGamer
CD-ROM Blaster 52X
Yamaha 20x10x40 Burner
Sony 1.44mb floppy
OS- win2k

Yes, back it up ASAP. I had a drive start clicking on me..it didn't survive another day.

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