My hard drive is talking to me

>.Warp · 12-20-2008, 02:07 PM

My hard drive apparently doesn't like it when I play Vahalla. I went on a huge kick a few months ago, and the game ran fine. i haven't done anything to change the settings or anything since, and when I booted up the game today, when I would go and pres the ALT key, for the duration of however long I had it pressed for, my hard drive (pretty sure) would make an odd squeaking noise. As soon as I would stop, it would too. I closed the game and opened a few others, didn't not have a problem. Re-opened Vahalla and had the same problem when I pressed any key. Closed and opened it again, it won't stop squeaking. Game performance is fine, In fact I didn't even notice until I turned my music off. Any suggestions?

**simpswr** · 12-22-2008, 11:05 AM

and welcome to the Forum

You can download diagnostics from the drive manufacturer to check the drive:

Samsung http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...ort_HUTIL.html
Seagate/Maxtor/Quantum http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...oads/seatools/
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
fujitsu/Seimens http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download...es/#diagnostic
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

**vladimirb** · 12-22-2008, 11:37 AM

Or you can use MHDD, it is free and very nice software for diagnostic...
I personally use this tool...

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

12-20-2008, 02:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
>.Warp Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Olympia, Washington Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro SP 2 My System	My hard drive is talking to me My hard drive apparently doesn't like it when I play Vahalla. I went on a huge kick a few months ago, and the game ran fine. i haven't done anything to change the settings or anything since, and when I booted up the game today, when I would go and pres the ALT key, for the duration of however long I had it pressed for, my hard drive (pretty sure) would make an odd squeaking noise. As soon as I would stop, it would too. I closed the game and opened a few others, didn't not have a problem. Re-opened Vahalla and had the same problem when I pressed any key. Closed and opened it again, it won't stop squeaking. Game performance is fine, In fact I didn't even notice until I turned my music off. Any suggestions? __________________ >.Warp

12-22-2008, 11:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 8,954 OS: XP, Vista	Re: My hard drive is talking to me and welcome to the Forum You can download diagnostics from the drive manufacturer to check the drive: Samsung http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...ort_HUTIL.html Seagate/Maxtor/Quantum http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...oads/seatools/ Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/ IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT fujitsu/Seimens http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download...es/#diagnostic IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help \| How to Post a Screen shot \| PC running slow?]

12-22-2008, 11:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
vladimirb Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Posts: 3,086 OS: xp pro sp3, Server 2003, Windows 7 My System	Re: My hard drive is talking to me Or you can use MHDD, it is free and very nice software for diagnostic... I personally use this tool... http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ __________________ MCP - MCSA