I had originally a 500GB and 1TB in my Dell, the 500GB was for booting and basic stuff like Word documents. The 1TB was everything else, like most of my programs, Steam games, music, etc. I wiped my 500GB and reinstalled Win 7 but never wiped the 1TB.
If you did a clean install on the 500GB drive, but left your programs on the other drive, the programs need to be reinstalled to work or to work properly. If you didn't reinstall that is one potential.
I believe I've re-installed most of them by now, I haven't had a good time to sit and check them all to be working 100% yet. You think maybe one of them could be giving me the issues?
Anything is possible - "Murphy's Law".
As you have the OS and drivers on the 500GB drive, temporarily disconnect the other drive then boot up and see what happens.
I installed Chrome and along with Chrome it automatically installed the google updater. I started having clicks, dropouts, etc. I uninstalled Chrome but I still had them, as it turned out the google updater was the culprit. I used Revo Uninstaller Pro program to try and get rid of it but couldn't. I had to manually edit the registry and startup to get it out of my system.
\Ill see, the issue is that when the clicks happen isn't up to me, I havent found a way to reproduce them myself.
I understand, however, you have to do something then wait and see if the problem returns. It may take a while to isolate what is causing it.
Well seeing how I've been trying to fix this for probably around 3-4 months, I figured it'll take a while.
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