Minor Computer Troubles

UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">...(i blame the clicky sounds)</div> Okay, upon typing this message another problem has shown up, but anyway:

[forgive the lower-case 'i's]

When i start my computer, it makes a weird clicking sound (which i think is the old harddrive...which just has videos and stuff), but it makes the computer boot to a list of ways to start the operating system ('Start Windows in Safe Mode'; 'Start Windows Normally' and like 10 others); directly from a screen that used to stay up ~3 seconds and required you to press F8 to get to the choices for starting the operating system.

Anyone know what could cause this? The clicking doesn't sound healthy, and it's a fair bit annoying to not be able to log in right away (you know, press power button, walk away, come back and log in <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )



And my other problem...as you might have noticed: my shift + i does not create a character...it doesn't do anything. i would assume the i button just didn't work, if not for the fact that caps lock makes a capital i...and that i can type lower case 'i's.

Do i need like keyboard drivers or something?
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    Sounds like your your old hard drive is dying. You'd best back up everything important you have on there and then put old yeller down.
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  • NikonNikon Join Date: 2003-09-29 Member: 21313Members, Constellation
    generally speaking, a clicking noise coming from a harddrive is the arm holding the reader head is smacking against the cylinder that the platers rotate on. Kinda hard to describe, but imagine a record needle repeatedly smacking into the pole that the record sits on and spins around.
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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    it only does it during start up though, and during normal use everything sounds normal. Plus, the one that actually has the startup information is the newer HDD, which is sturdy. Could it be bringing me to that screen because there's a problem initializing the second HDD on startup, so it thinks something is wrong?

    i just played a movie off of the older, second HDD and it worked fine (no clicking sounds then).



    ...plus ...i don't think that really explains my lower-case only letter i.



    Thanks for the help so far, though.
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  • 0blique0blique Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16477Members
    If the shift+i doesn't work, try borrowing someone else's keyboard and trying your keyboard in someone else's computer. It's possible that if it's an old keyboard, there could be something jammed in the contacts, so you could clean it up. It might be broekn, though, so you may have to decide whether to get a new keyboard.
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  • ShoeboxShoebox Join Date: 2004-11-15 Member: 32817Members
    i would say just get a different hard drive. it could be that its messing with something on boot up and has to ask how u want it to start up. i think the clicking noise is something that is making contact which in a hard drive that isnt good.
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