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Uh, Oh... HDD Pinging

post #1 of 8
3/6/06 at 1:51pm
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Well my m3200 is 1 (short month) and 1 day old and my HDD seems to be getting the Ping of death. clickity clack clickity clack even when the HDD light isn't on. Seems to me it's going to die a slow death from here on out.

I will probably just replace the drive with a bigger faster one.
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post #2 of 8
3/6/06 at 1:54pm
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post #3 of 8
3/6/06 at 6:14pm
have you contacted Alienware yet?
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post #4 of 8
3/6/06 at 8:10pm
wow....my 223 is over 1yr old, and still no HDD issues, it spent the first 7mo of its life in Kuwait...

I'd call them ASAP.
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post #5 of 8
3/6/06 at 11:57pm
mines 2 jeers oldddd and runs flawless still!!! what....
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post #6 of 8
3/7/06 at 12:13am
Ouch I would call them asap.
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post #7 of 8
3/7/06 at 1:22am
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Ouch I would call them asap.
I would love to call them but $50-$100 for a new hard drive is way better than me loosing my laptop for 10-20 days.

I'm sure it's just a bunk hard drive not alienwares fault. I will maybe just call to see if they will send a new drive but I figure they will just want me to depot it.
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post #8 of 8
3/7/06 at 5:12pm
GraFix: you don't have time to send the whole system back? what if the IDE cable has shorted out the drive voltage capacitors? it would make any newly inserted drive overvolt, possibly overheat then fail.

if you think this is all made up, or not going to happen, then i direct you to the Dell Evo N610C debacle.
"it's a bad batch of harddrives from samsung"

"it's a bad batch of ide controller chips"

"it's a bad batch of laptops"
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