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Asus z70va New High pitched noise

post #1 of 8
4/19/06 at 4:07pm
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I just started hearing a high pitch noise come from the bottom left side of my notebook and its pretty irratating. Its been happening for a while now. I read somewhere that the z71v had the same problem and that a bios update would help it. So I have two questions..

1) Did the bios update fix the problem for the z71v users? (does anyone know)
2) How do I go about updating the bios?

Also, I had to replace my old harddrive (by old I mean two months). Could this new harddrive be the problem?

Cheers.
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post #2 of 8
4/19/06 at 4:53pm
bottom left side? could be the HD because CPU fan is at the bottom right.
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post #3 of 8
4/20/06 at 1:33am
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Originally Posted by chado
I just started hearing a high pitch noise come from the bottom left side of my notebook and its pretty irratating. Its been happening for a while now. I read somewhere that the z71v had the same problem and that a bios update would help it. So I have two questions..

1) Did the bios update fix the problem for the z71v users? (does anyone know)
2) How do I go about updating the bios?

Also, I had to replace my old harddrive (by old I mean two months). Could this new harddrive be the problem?

Cheers.
1. yes
2. go to http://support.asus.com, choose your product, and download the latest BIOS. Then extract it and update using WinFlash
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post #4 of 8
4/20/06 at 10:27am
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damn, already had the latest bios version. I emailed Rick from ISTNC and he told me that was common with the new hitachis. He said some people have noticed that it 'goes away' with usage. Anyone have a more practical solution then waiting for it to go away?
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post #5 of 8
4/28/06 at 12:06am
If you'd just bought your HD.. I say demand a refund and buy a Seagate Momentus instead. I had a Hitachi when I had a desktop.. that thing made all sorts of weird noises. Then I replaced it with a Seagate... it was a huge difference in that it was real quiet. So when I bought my notebook, I stuck with Seagate.
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post #6 of 8
4/28/06 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by ledzepp14
If you'd just bought your HD.. I say demand a refund and buy a Seagate Momentus instead. I had a Hitachi when I had a desktop.. that thing made all sorts of weird noises. Then I replaced it with a Seagate... it was a huge difference in that it was real quiet. So when I bought my notebook, I stuck with Seagate.
//fanboy interlude

Seagate for the win!

//end fanboy interlude
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post #7 of 8
4/28/06 at 10:30pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe
//fanboy interlude

Seagate for the win!

//end fanboy interlude

Haha! I was def expecting that... but I'm damn proud to be a Seagate fanboy.. I believe they make the best HDs. I've had Hitachi, Maxtor, and Western Digital before, in case anyone's wondering what my basis for comparison was.
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post #8 of 8
4/29/06 at 6:17pm
make a defragment attempt
it may give you an easy solution

worked for me
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