Hardware conflict frying windows?

[asparagus]

Oh hi there. I Recently ( last 6 months ) built a new pc, and had flawless results for three months, until I had a crash during a game. I ended up holding in the power button to restart, though after I did that windows froze on the loading screen. I tried to repair, safemode, last config. Nothing worked so I reinstalled.

Three months went by with out so much as a stutter or hiccup, then playing hellgate london beta and experienced a freeze during gameplay. Numlock functioned fine, but could not get out of it to end the program. Ended up doing the same thing. Now, within the three months, I have had to manual restart a few times, but nothing happened.

So, same problem. I figured I would just reinstal windows again and deal with having to reincarnate my pc every few months. I ended up using xp prof sp2, everything was fine, went through the chores of driver sand whatnot. Shutdown. Today, it locks up after the window's screen, and I hear two quiet clicks in my case. I am a little clueless as to where to go from here. On my backup PC with windows currently reformatting again.

Any advice is appreciated. This is kind of depressing as it has been working well for so long, and normally I can figure out what to do.

MB : EVGA 122-ck-nf63-tr nf680I 775 R (sorry for elaborate ness)

Video card : EVGA 8800GTS 640mb

PSU : Coolmax CUG-700b 700w

MEM : 4 gig (1gigx4) DII800 OCZ FX800

cpu : intel Core 2 duo E6700

HD: 500g samsung HD501lj

[Katreat]

You mention XP is running now, what where you running when it crashed? Is your XP 64 bit (I see you have 4 gigs of RAM so was wondering).

[asparagus]

The first crash, I had XP home.

Then I switched to professional.

Currently installed XP prof sp 2

The ram is redundant ;3

[shadowpr]

You might want to try running memtest, and a hd diagnostic.

[asparagus]

After the format finished, HD is clicking fairly loudly during the file copy. Think the HD might of died on me? Considering I put it through so much abuse, with, all the non installing.

[shadowpr]

run a hd diagnostic. Clicking is a bad thing.

[asparagus]

Odd as it sounds, I have never ran an HD diagnostic. do I just use windows scandisk on restart? Or is there a program you would reccomend?

[shadowpr]

Go here and search for your drive, then see if they have a diagnostic program. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do...ortDownMain.do

if not, go to the Hitachi site (www.hgst.com) and download the Drive Fitness Test. It can do basic tests on all brands of drives.