System locks up overnight & makes a cyclic thudding noise - very l

Ok, after much pain and agony, I finally got my X-Fi Fatality card "working." I had scoured the forums and found a poster suggest changing the AGP aperture from 28 to 256. That corrected the problem of my system booting to 4-bit color. My next problem is that at some time overnight my system will lock up and start making a loud cyclic noise - not really a pop noise but a thud and it is LOUD. I had the system muted too which makes even less sense, but whatever. Creative support is supposed to call me back on this but I have to say that this has been a real disappointment for me. I spent $200.00 on the card to improve my Battlefield 2 performance but this has turned into a major hassle.
I have spent about 0 hours trying to get this thing working properly. I did a clean reinstall which really pisses me off - especially since my initial issue was solved in the forums but the tech support didn't know it. They know now. This cyclic noise thing sucks since my computer is directly under my son's room and it wakes him up. I'm ready to go postal.
Pied
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Symptoms of slowness before, and problems now are often an indication of hdd failing. Shut it down and on starting up enter BIOS by tapping away at the F10 key.Use Diagnostics to test the hdd and memory.
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Also, the other day, while booted into the live cd I think it started to crash since it was acting extremely bizarre, but I shutdown, successfully, before it could do more than complain a lot. At the time I was in the middle of scrubbing a btrfs volume after a system lock up. I think, but am not certain, that I saw on my motherboard "A5" which, according to the manual indicates "SCSI reset", but I had an extremely bad viewing angle. I know neither if what I think I saw was correct, nor do I know if the system was again in the process of a meltdown.
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[edit] Oh, I'm on kernel 3.19.2 and btrfs is 3.19.
[edit2] Also, I converted the RAID0 to a single in case that matters.
[edit4] I finished scrubbing and copied my "journalctl -b" output to pastebin. I can't see any thing that might raise any flags. http://pastebin.com/WXpbpTuc
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Last edited by chaembian (2012-07-02 04:57:50)

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