First thing in the morning i get up to put on my pc and guess what? When i hit the power i heard this mechanical sound coming from the tower followed by 3-5 beeps. Nothing was displayed on the monitor. I restarted it a couple times and the same thing happen every time.Then i opened it up to make sure everything was good inside, no loose wires/parts. Powered it up again and same thing happens.I'm starting to think my hard-drive is fucked, that's the only thing that comes to mind. There goes my 500gig that i bought about 1 year now with over 400gig of awesome on it. I feel as though i lost part of myself. Who say's get wasted and pass out?

it sucks.....real hard.
don't know how i'm gonna get back all my stuff...

 

Bring the computer to a repair place, it will cost about $85-300, but it's worth it!

Repair prices may vary depending on the problem*

 

Evin if your hard drive was fucked you'd still see something on the monitor from the BIOS - repost with the correct number of beeps, and yes that is important (also short or long).

 

Take out your RAM and put it back in. if you have >1 ram chips, switch them around. Even with a failed harddrive, most computers have the bios outside the harddrive, it should still load up.

You can always try taking out the harddrive and using a harddrive enclosure kit to try loading the harddrive on a working computer to see if it hangs or not.

 

There's like 9-12 of the mechanical sound (i tried to source the sound but it's really hard to tell what exactly is making it) after the mechanical sounds there's like 4 beeps. The first beep is longer the the following beeps. Like this beeeep..beep.beep.beep. Pretty fast as well. If i head correct that's the correct amount of beep. The mechanical sound is what is really throwing me off, don't know what's making it. Also, the lights on my key board seems to blink continuously. I tried unplugging and re-plugging but the problem persists. That's pretty much all i can give. If this could be fixed it would mean a lot. thank you

 

A light tap can work if it's the moving mechanism within the drive failing or sticking, but it'd be better (theoretically) to open it up and solve the problem instead of blindly tapping on it. I had that problem, a hard drive that would stop loading sporadically because the eye would get stuck, and a gentle nudge in the right spot of my laptop case would get it moving. Of course, it wasn't a good sign, and shit stopped working entirely about a month later. From there I froze it for a few hours, and it worked long enough to grab a few things I hadn't backed up.

But since it sounds like the hard drive isn't the issue, the point is kind of moot, haha.

 

well i guess im lucky because one of my comps always sounds like someone just turned on a jigsaw. but it ain't broken.

 

Yeah, my fan is janky as hell, but I'm too cheap to replace it, so I just have a small fan pointed at the vent 24/7 so the internal fan has no reason to power up. It's obscenely loud and doesn't cool at all, which seems like just what I need in a fan.