Cycling lock-up, ticking noise... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Furry · 12-08-2005, 02:18 PM

First of all let me say that I've done a token search of this thread and analysed my poor old laptop to bits with Hijackthis, Adaware and some other tools mentioned on here, as well as ones that I already had installed. As far as I know, I have a nice clean, spyware-free computer.
(SP2 installed, Firefox as standard, Norton for antivirus, McAffee for firewall, 1 GB of RAM, 1.9 GHz processor, various spyware/adware tools)

There's nothing on there that I don't recognise. I've run several defragments, I've purged everything that I can think of, I've disabled the Indexing service and run both chkdisk and Norton's own flavour of it. yet...

I defragmented my system overnight as I usually do. I came back this morning, rebooted, and then I heard the Noise Of Doom coming from my hard drive.

Tick tick tick tick
Tick tick tick

Tick tick tick tick
tick tick tick

(Sometimes repeated)

(Sometimes accompanied by disk activity, after the last cycle)

Accompanying this is an almost complete lock-up of the system every time this process (whatever it is) starts. Games grind to a halt. Firefox stalls. Explorer hangs. After the ticking stops, whatever was supposed to happen in the interval happens very fast.
There's no accompanying cpu spike or pagefile activity jump. The pagefile is set to the system-allocated size - no changes there.

As I've said before, this happened after my last defragment. I've tried re-defragging various times throughout the day putting various files first. No joy. My system restore tools don't have a save point for a time before the defrag.

I'm pulling my hair out here. Any help, suggestions, or pointing out some basic newbish error that I might have made would be greatly appreciated.

HijackThis log appended for form's sake - I can't see anything here that I haven't OK'd and/or recognised

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 23:13:06, on 08/12/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\FTRTSVC.exe
C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBPoll.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\SPEEDD~1\nopdb.exe
C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\Tmesbs32.exe
C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDSched.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\00THotkey.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\TPWRTRAY.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\TDispVol.exe
C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\TMESBS32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\TFNF5.exe
C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TouchED\TouchED.Exe
C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Guardian\CMGrdian.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC.exe
C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\MsgPlus.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasDtServ.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\TaskBarIcon.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE
C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Instant Updater\RuLaunch.exe
C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE
C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBTray.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\kem.exe
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LOGITECH\SETPOINT\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\Program Files\SAGEM Wi-Fi USB 802.11g\WLANUTL.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\DOCUME~1\Laurent\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 2 for hijackthis.zip\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.wanadoo.fr
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Wanadoo
R3 - URLSearchHook: Search Class - {08C06D61-F1F3-4799-86F8-BE1A89362C85} - C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\SEARCH~1.DLL
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: NAV Helper - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE NvQTwk,NvCplDaemon initialize
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /installquiet
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [00THotkey] C:\WINDOWS\System32\00THotkey.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [000StTHK] 000StTHK.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Tpwrtray] TPWRTRAY.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TDispVol] TDispVol.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TMESBS.EXE] C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\TMESBS32.EXE /Client
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TFNF5] TFNF5.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TosHKCW.exe] "C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPLpr] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPEnh] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TouchED] C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TouchED\TouchED.Exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Logitech Hardware Abstraction Layer] KHALMNPR.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [McAfee Guardian] "C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Guardian\CMGrdian.exe" /SU
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccRegVfy] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccRegVfy.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Symantec NetDriver Monitor] C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMon.exe /Consumer
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [gcasServ] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MessengerPlus3] "C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\MsgPlus.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WOOWATCH] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\Watch.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WOOTASKBARICON] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\GestMaj.exe TaskBarIcon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Openwares LiveUpdate] C:\Program Files\LiveUpdate\LiveUpdate.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [McAfee.InstantUpdate.Monitor] "C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Instant Updater\RuLaunch.exe" /STARTMONITOR
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [WOOKIT] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\Shell.exe appLaunchClientZone.shl|DEFAULT=cnx|PARAM=
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\reader_sl.exe
O4 - Global Startup: GoBack.lnk = C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBTray.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Logitech SetPoint.lnk = ?
O4 - Global Startup: SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB adapter LAN Utility.lnk = ?
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - -{FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - -{FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra button: Wanadoo - {1462651F-F4BA-4C76-A001-C4284D0FE16E} - http://www.wanadoo.fr (file missing) (HKCU)
O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39204
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...?1131487398381
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O20 - Winlogon Notify: LBTServ - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\Bluetooth\lbtserv.dll
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation Service (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccPwdSvc.exe
O23 - Service: France Telecom Routing Table Service (FTRTSVC) - France Telecom - C:\WINDOWS\System32\FTRTSVC.exe
O23 - Service: GBPoll - Roxio, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBPoll.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Firewall - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE" /SERVICE (file missing)
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Norton Unerase Protection (NProtectService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: PDEngine - Raxco Software, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDEngine.exe
O23 - Service: PDScheduler (PDSched) - Raxco Software, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDSched.exe
O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\SCRIPT~1\SBServ.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Speed Disk service - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\SPEEDD~1\nopdb.exe
O23 - Service: SymWMI Service (SymWSC) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC.exe
O23 - Service: Tmesbs32 (Tmesbs) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\Tmesbs32.exe" /Service (file missing)

alpha phi · 12-08-2005, 03:09 PM

Sounds more like a hardware issue.
Hard drive failure?
If I were you, I'd back up anything important. ASAP

you could try a complete format....
at least that way.. no regrets
on a hasty hard drive purchase.

TheProf · 12-08-2005, 09:43 PM

I had a similar problem with a 'tscht' sound. Ends up it was due to the drive overheating -- the onboard fans were not spinning up enough or until the temp became too high.

I downloaded the program Speedfan which literally saved my hard drive. I ran the program and cranked all the fans in the laptop to 100% and soon the clicking was gone.

Now fans at 100% all the time both are noisy and drain the battery so the next thing to do is look up the specifications for your CPU in terms of operating temperature range and then program that into Speedfan. Voila! The fans will kick in at the temp you specify to maintain the target range. It is an awesome little program.

I'd also recommend NOT defragmenting or running scandisk over and over since that's just going to cause your hard drives to heat up more and more and die faster.

tinfoil · 12-12-2005, 11:35 AM

Sounds like the drive may be on it's way out.. data errors that require the drive flush its onboard cache, thus leading to the ticking noise.

12-08-2005, 02:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
Furry Crazy Location: UK	Cycling lock-up, ticking noise... First of all let me say that I've done a token search of this thread and analysed my poor old laptop to bits with Hijackthis, Adaware and some other tools mentioned on here, as well as ones that I already had installed. As far as I know, I have a nice clean, spyware-free computer. (SP2 installed, Firefox as standard, Norton for antivirus, McAffee for firewall, 1 GB of RAM, 1.9 GHz processor, various spyware/adware tools) There's nothing on there that I don't recognise. I've run several defragments, I've purged everything that I can think of, I've disabled the Indexing service and run both chkdisk and Norton's own flavour of it. yet... I defragmented my system overnight as I usually do. I came back this morning, rebooted, and then I heard the Noise Of Doom coming from my hard drive. Tick tick tick tick Tick tick tick Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick (Sometimes repeated) (Sometimes accompanied by disk activity, after the last cycle) Accompanying this is an almost complete lock-up of the system every time this process (whatever it is) starts. Games grind to a halt. Firefox stalls. Explorer hangs. After the ticking stops, whatever was supposed to happen in the interval happens very fast. There's no accompanying cpu spike or pagefile activity jump. The pagefile is set to the system-allocated size - no changes there. As I've said before, this happened after my last defragment. I've tried re-defragging various times throughout the day putting various files first. No joy. My system restore tools don't have a save point for a time before the defrag. I'm pulling my hair out here. Any help, suggestions, or pointing out some basic newbish error that I might have made would be greatly appreciated. HijackThis log appended for form's sake - I can't see anything here that I haven't OK'd and/or recognised Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 23:13:06, on 08/12/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\FTRTSVC.exe C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBPoll.exe C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\SPEEDD~1\nopdb.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\Tmesbs32.exe C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDSched.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\00THotkey.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\TPWRTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\TDispVol.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\TMESBS32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\TFNF5.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TouchED\TouchED.Exe C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Guardian\CMGrdian.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC.exe C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\MsgPlus.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasDtServ.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\TaskBarIcon.exe C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Instant Updater\RuLaunch.exe C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBTray.exe C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\kem.exe C:\PROGRAM FILES\LOGITECH\SETPOINT\KHALMNPR.EXE C:\Program Files\SAGEM Wi-Fi USB 802.11g\WLANUTL.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\DOCUME~1\Laurent\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 2 for hijackthis.zip\HijackThis.exe R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.wanadoo.fr R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Wanadoo R3 - URLSearchHook: Search Class - {08C06D61-F1F3-4799-86F8-BE1A89362C85} - C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\SEARCH~1.DLL O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll O2 - BHO: NAV Helper - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE NvQTwk,NvCplDaemon initialize O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /installquiet O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [00THotkey] C:\WINDOWS\System32\00THotkey.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [000StTHK] 000StTHK.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Tpwrtray] TPWRTRAY.EXE O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TDispVol] TDispVol.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TMESBS.EXE] C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\TMESBS32.EXE /Client O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TFNF5] TFNF5.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TosHKCW.exe] "C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\Wireless Hotkey\TosHKCW.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPLpr] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPEnh] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TouchED] C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TouchED\TouchED.Exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Logitech Hardware Abstraction Layer] KHALMNPR.EXE O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [McAfee Guardian] "C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Guardian\CMGrdian.exe" /SU O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccRegVfy] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccRegVfy.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Symantec NetDriver Monitor] C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMon.exe /Consumer O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [gcasServ] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MessengerPlus3] "C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\MsgPlus.exe" O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WOOWATCH] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\Watch.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WOOTASKBARICON] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\GestMaj.exe TaskBarIcon.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Openwares LiveUpdate] C:\Program Files\LiveUpdate\LiveUpdate.exe O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [McAfee.InstantUpdate.Monitor] "C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Shared Components\Instant Updater\RuLaunch.exe" /STARTMONITOR O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [WOOKIT] C:\PROGRA~1\Wanadoo\Shell.exe appLaunchClientZone.shl\|DEFAULT=cnx\|PARAM= O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\reader_sl.exe O4 - Global Startup: GoBack.lnk = C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBTray.exe O4 - Global Startup: Logitech SetPoint.lnk = ? O4 - Global Startup: SAGEM Wi-Fi 11g USB adapter LAN Utility.lnk = ? O9 - Extra button: Messenger - -{FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - -{FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe O9 - Extra button: Wanadoo - {1462651F-F4BA-4C76-A001-C4284D0FE16E} - http://www.wanadoo.fr (file missing) (HKCU) O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39204 O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...?1131487398381 O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing) O20 - Winlogon Notify: LBTServ - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\Bluetooth\lbtserv.dll O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation Service (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccPwdSvc.exe O23 - Service: France Telecom Routing Table Service (FTRTSVC) - France Telecom - C:\WINDOWS\System32\FTRTSVC.exe O23 - Service: GBPoll - Roxio, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Roxio\GoBack\GBPoll.exe O23 - Service: McAfee Firewall - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee Firewall\CPD.EXE" /SERVICE (file missing) O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe O23 - Service: Norton Unerase Protection (NProtectService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe O23 - Service: PDEngine - Raxco Software, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDEngine.exe O23 - Service: PDScheduler (PDSched) - Raxco Software, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Raxco\PerfectDisk\PDSched.exe O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\SCRIPT~1\SBServ.exe O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe O23 - Service: Speed Disk service - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\SPEEDD~1\nopdb.exe O23 - Service: SymWMI Service (SymWSC) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\SymWSC.exe O23 - Service: Tmesbs32 (Tmesbs) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TME3\Tmesbs32.exe" /Service (file missing) __________________ Furry is the leader of his own cult, the "Furballs of Doom". They sit about chanting "Doom, Doom, Doom". (From a random shot in the dark by SirLance)

12-08-2005, 03:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
alpha phi seeker Location: home	Sounds more like a hardware issue. Hard drive failure? If I were you, I'd back up anything important. ASAP you could try a complete format.... at least that way.. no regrets on a hasty hard drive purchase. __________________ All ideas in this communication are sole property of the voices in my head. (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 "The Voices" (TM). All rights reserved.

12-12-2005, 11:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
tinfoil Fucking Hostile Location: Springford, ON, Canada	Sounds like the drive may be on it's way out.. data errors that require the drive flush its onboard cache, thus leading to the ticking noise. __________________ Get off your fuckin cross. We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.

12-08-2005, 09:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
TheProf Crazy	I had a similar problem with a 'tscht' sound. Ends up it was due to the drive overheating -- the onboard fans were not spinning up enough or until the temp became too high. I downloaded the program Speedfan which literally saved my hard drive. I ran the program and cranked all the fans in the laptop to 100% and soon the clicking was gone. Now fans at 100% all the time both are noisy and drain the battery so the next thing to do is look up the specifications for your CPU in terms of operating temperature range and then program that into Speedfan. Voila! The fans will kick in at the temp you specify to maintain the target range. It is an awesome little program. I'd also recommend NOT defragmenting or running scandisk over and over since that's just going to cause your hard drives to heat up more and more and die faster.