Signs of a dying Hard Drive?

[TipsySmile]

Alright after recently upgrading my system (new Ram, video card and CPU), I've been noticing some crashing, and hanging problems, that I've never had before. If Im playing a game off my hard drive I.E. back up image up NFS MW (Yes I do OWN the game!) Ill be playing for about 20-30 mins and my monitor shuts off as if theres no signal, and everything just freezes, but the computer is still running. If i let it sit there, about 1 minute later the comp restarts.

Now I've been noticing some "Clicking" noise from my hard drive (WD Cavier SE 80gig SATA) everyonce in a while, and whenever i exit out of a game I hear the famous Error Ding sound but no error box. I've done a little reasearch here and there and some say the clicking noise is a sign of a dying hard drive, others say its normal.

So what I'm asking is it time for another HD or is something else causing the crashing?

Thanks.

 

[Sprooty]

it could be a number of problems. Overheating,faulty ram,bad power supply... i have no experiance with a clicking hard drive so i would'nt be able to say if thats the sound a dying HD makes.