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post #1 of 5
4/3/05 at 8:57pm
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Ok. I've been playing with full HD copy (using Paragon Hard Disk Manager) this weekend. I have 3 extra HDs to play with. Did it by putting two drives into external enclosures and then copying from one to the other. I noticed that one of the drives makes more noise than others. That made me suspicious.

In the end I put each HD into laptop as a main HD and booted. The one that made more noise in enclosure caused buzzing sound in TM8104. It's that same buzzing sound that some of you described. It's hard to localize at first whether it comes from HD or from DVD drive or from power circuits. Well, it comes from both HD and power circuits.

I then did another experiment and put that HD into TM8003. Lo and behold, same buzzing sound.

So, it's now 100% confirmed that the source of buzzing sound is indeed a hard drive.

I'm going to wipe that drive now and dispose of. It's one of the older Toshiba 60G 4200rpm drives (MK6021GAS).

Hope you find this information helpful.
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post #2 of 5
4/5/05 at 2:17pm
So are you saying that the buzzing noise occurs from both the new 100GB Seagate Momentus in the 8104 and an older Toshiba 60GB drive?
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post #3 of 5
4/5/05 at 3:17pm
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Originally Posted by alexrud
So are you saying that the buzzing noise occurs from both the new 100GB Seagate Momentus in the 8104 and an older Toshiba 60GB drive?
I'm saying that buzzing occurs from hard drive. I assume, bad hard drive. In my case it was older Toshiba drive. Seagate Momentus is perfectly fine in my TM8104. But some TM810x users complained about buzzing, and that tells us they had a bad sample of Seagate drive.
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post #4 of 5
4/5/05 at 8:07pm
I get the buzzing sound from my 8104, and it of course has the 100GB Seagate Momentus in it. I get the sound sporadically, so i'm not sure what's going on. Will Acer replace my drive if I ask them to?
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post #5 of 5
4/9/05 at 7:08pm
Just return it for a new laptop if your 30 days is not up. If not, get ur money back and invest in something else. You never know what they do to the laptops when they repair it.
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