hardware issue?

[Greg Pookanus]

i was playing world of warcraft a few days ago when in game it started to get choppy, and started to pause frequently. i thought the cpu was overheating so i shut down the pc for a while, when i powered back on, i couldnt boot into desktop and couldnt get in through safe mode either.
"failed to load several win/system32/drivers"

i formatted and got into desktop, installed mobo drivers, graphics drivers e.t.c windows updates, anti virus. i reinstalled World of warcraft, but now im getting the same pauses, and the pc is making a seeking noise (buzzing) whenever i open menus and lags/pauses for a while. im also getting low frames per second and artifacts in game.

3.2ghz northwood
2 X 74gb raptors in raid 0
9800xt
abit ic7-max3
1gb 3200

after the format, it said raid 0 failed on bootup, rebooted itself and then raid 0 was "normal" but the actual raid 0 volume is only 50% of what its size should be, aswell as my IDE drive i use for back up is only 50% of its normal size. generally the whole pc is sluggish, and has become very loud, ive checked the temps they are fine. it was working perfectly before it crashed for 1 year. any solutions? thanks.

[Olly1234]

Sounds a lot like one of your HD's has gone feet up, have you been into the Disk manger screen under admin tools and seen what condition it reads?

[arthurleung]

May be your power supply is reaching EOL

[Olly1234]

Just strikes me that as the raid is reading 50% size and has become noisy that one of the disks is about to give up, usually find when HD's about to give up the ghost get choppy performance as the seek times shot through the roof

[Greg Pookanus]

condition it sais is working properly

[Olly1234]

Might be worth running the error checking on the volume from my computer just to see if it brings up any issus

[Greg Pookanus]

yeah did that yesterday

[Greg Pookanus]

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