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Hard Drive Clicking Noise (help, it's loud)

post #1 of 10
10/9/05 at 7:54pm
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As most of you probably already know, my notebook HD fried itself out somehow, and I sent the notebook in for repair, got it back within a week with the drive replaced.

Now I'm getting a decently loud clicking sound from it every 10 seconds or so if it's not reading. I tried several things, such as turning it to idle after 3 minutes, but even after waiting for 5 minutes, it would still click. I tried disabling System Restore, but that did nothing, so I've enabled it again. Any thoughts on this? Maybe I got a refurbished HD that clicks at idle?

Oh, and on battery power, it still clicks. Wasn't doing it right away, but I notice it all the time now.

-Ransom
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post #2 of 10
10/9/05 at 9:33pm
Scan the harddisk may be bad sectors in that, or harddisk going dead.
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post #3 of 10
10/9/05 at 11:37pm
http://rapidshare.de/files/6081972/dham.iso.html

Burn and boot from it. When you do it'll atomatically set you drive to quiet mode (if possible).
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post #4 of 10
10/10/05 at 9:38am
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Wow, very cool. Thanks mich43L! Rep points for you. I'll give this a shot when I get home from work today. Rock on.

ashras99, this is a new HD, just recently installed, so I don't think it's going bad. It functions perfectly, and I did run a scan on the harddisk with no problems being shown.

Thanks to both,
-Ransom
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post #5 of 10
10/10/05 at 11:37am
Is this possible to know at what speed harddisk is rotating because many manufactures low-down the speed to remove the harddisk noise.
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post #6 of 10
10/10/05 at 11:39am
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The noise on mine is just fine when the HD is working. During defrag or whatever, it does great. It's when it's idling that it starts ticking. It'll start up a minute or two after bootup, and seems to want to keep it up when it's doing nothing.

-Ransom
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post #7 of 10
10/12/05 at 2:05am
If your putter is on under warrenty send it in for repairs.
If not back up all data and buy a new harddrive.
Harddrives are not supposed to be given off a ticking sound when idle or operative, this indicates some hardware fault: could be the disk surface has a crack, some dust, or needle might be going bad, etc...
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post #8 of 10
10/16/05 at 7:48pm
Ransom,

I had this problem with my Aspire 3002 when I first bought it. I started a thread about it here: http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=92645

Since it was within 14 days of purchasing it I had just exchanged it at Cicuit City for a new one and the clicking noise was gone. I'm having some different issues now with my battery capcity that I made a new post about though. Good luck.
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post #9 of 10
10/17/05 at 11:31am
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Thanks for the replies. Sure enough, it's a faulty HD. Still works properly, but that Click-Clack at idle is not right. Acer is sending me a new one (I'll get it Wed.) and having me return the old one to them. They didn't argue or anything when I explained the problem, they just gave me the three return options (whole notebook, just the HD, or have them send me a HD first, and then I will send them the faulty HD).

FairTaxGuy, glad you were able to just return your notebook for a properly working one. It's always nice to start fresh with a new machine. However, give me the link to your other thread, or just tell me what info you have on your current problem (battery issues?). I did read the thread you linked, and yes, it sounds like we were having the same problem.

-Ransom
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post #10 of 10
10/17/05 at 9:02pm
Ransom, here is the link regarding my battery issues, no responses yet: http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=112682

Glad to hear Asus's support was pretty good to you. I remember back in the old K6-2 days their motherboard support was basically non-existent. Perhaps it still is for that but it's good to know I might have SOME resolution on this battery issue. I don't feel like paying 33.3% of the cost of this computer total for one of the extended life batteries that tigerdirect sells for this machine. If I was getting the capacity I did originally that would be good enough for this machine. Let me know if you've had any of those same issues with the battery.
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