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Hard Drive make clicking noise

post #1 of 19
1/10/03 at 8:29pm
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I have just purchased a Sagar 8886 laptop and it contains a Toshiba 40g 5200 RPM HD. It seems that each time drive starts to write or finishes writing it makes a click noise that sounds like the head is parking or unparking. When the drive reading or writing continuously it doest make any odd noises. After reading through the newsgroups I found a post where someone was able to solve this problem by downloading and running Intel's application accelerator. I download the program but it would not run telling me that I didn't have the correct hardware. Does anyone have any hints to make this stop?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

J. Michael Eubanks
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post #2 of 19
1/10/03 at 9:56pm
Intel removed support for mobile chipsets in the latest release of Intel Application Accelerator. You need an earlier version (I think 2.2.2 is the newest one that still works).
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post #3 of 19
1/10/03 at 10:46pm
Thread Starter 
That worked! Thanks for the info.


Michael
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post #4 of 19
1/16/03 at 4:59pm
I'm a little confused. The manual says my chipset is 845E, which is supposed to be supported by the 2.3 version, but it's not?
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post #5 of 19
1/28/03 at 11:31am

Constant HD Clicking

My new 8886 hard drive lite blinks constantly and the constant clicking is driving me nuts. I does this with no application running at all. I have turned off everything I dare on the Task Manager and it just keeps clicking. Plus I worry that the HD will fail early. Will the fix recommended on this thread work for my problem?
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post #6 of 19
1/28/03 at 11:44am
Thread Starter 
drolston,

That sounds like the same problem I had. It seems that the noise is a result of the power saving "feature" of the HD. Use Intel's application accelerator program (v2.2.2) to set the HD's power saving setting to max perfomance and that will fix the clicking noise.

Michael
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post #7 of 19
1/28/03 at 11:59am
My 8886 should be arriving this afternoon and I was wondering if someone could give me a link to this program incase I have the same problem with my laptop.
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post #8 of 19
1/28/03 at 12:05pm
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Originally posted by Tyranous
My 8886 should be arriving this afternoon and I was wondering if someone could give me a link to this program incase I have the same problem with my laptop.
HERE is the 2.2.2 download page.
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post #9 of 19
1/28/03 at 1:26pm
I guess I was used to the noise when I got the 8886 because my current lappy has that same hard drive and it clicks all the time (til I got IAA). It really wasn't that bad of a clicking sound, though... normal for the toshiba drive, lol. Glad to see the IAA takes care of it, though, because personally I'd rather not have the hard drive parking and unparking constantly :-)
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post #10 of 19
1/28/03 at 1:30pm
Yea, the click is the most annoying and loudest part of the system if youhaven't taken care of it. I never bothered because I have an 800MHZ IBM thinkpad that sat right next to it that the hard drive was much louder than the Toshiba in the 5660.
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post #11 of 19
1/29/03 at 3:57am
Successfully installed the Intel iaa222 accelerator and set the performance to maximum. The hard drive is still blnking and clicking away. Unfortunately the Toshiba hard drive does not support the acoustical options. I suppose will get used to it eventually. I just wonder why it is doing all of that banging around, when no application is running. What background process is sending the hard drive all over the place every second or so? And can I disable or lower priority on that process?
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post #12 of 19
1/29/03 at 6:05am
I'm using the same Toshiba drive. Initially, the drive noise was pretty high; after installing the Intel Application Accelerator and setting the appropriate Toshiba options, the drive seems to be quietened down somewhat (or that may just be my imagination! ). There's still that clicking noise, but seems less.

For myself, the clicking is really more a minor annoyance and in one sense it's kinda reassuring to hear the faint clicking sound going on - the audio cues do perhaps indicate the health of the drive, doesn't it? Still, having used notebooks with virtually silent HDDs, I can see why one may just like having silent drives.


Rob
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post #13 of 19
1/30/03 at 9:35pm
Yeah, I can live with the racket, but I still wonder what background process is causing all the hard drive activity, when no application is running.
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post #14 of 19
1/30/03 at 10:19pm
Recently, since I'm into programming and the HT thing, I'm interested in learning to program for HT . I looked in Task Manager for XP, and saw that even when seemingly nothing was running, there were actually 18(!) programs (processes) running, and over 230 threads! This is seemingly background material running, so if it's using 18 programs, the computer may be more active than you think.
FYI: I saw this on my desktop with XP Home and a lesser ATI video card.
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post #15 of 19
1/31/03 at 11:26am
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Originally posted by Jahws
Recently, since I'm into programming and the HT thing, I'm interested in learning to program for HT . I looked in Task Manager for XP, and saw that even when seemingly nothing was running, there were actually 18(!) programs (processes) running, and over 230 threads! This is seemingly background material running, so if it's using 18 programs, the computer may be more active than you think.
FYI: I saw this on my desktop with XP Home and a lesser ATI video card.
You probably should be looking for Intel Processor Packs for various programming environments.

Cheers.
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post #16 of 19
1/31/03 at 3:10pm
lol, the hard drive licking noises happen with LACK of activity, not with activity. The whole reason for the clicking is because the hard drive parks its heads for power saving, and it only does that when it's not using the heads. There's an app out there that you can install and it actually sends a random task for the hard drive (random read) and it prevents the drive from parking every few seconds, lol. I don't like having background apps running, though. So, I use IAA and accept the little noise that's left. It's just what the toshiba drives do (in all laptops).
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post #17 of 19
2/2/03 at 12:19am
Is there anyway not to get the Toshiba drive (so you don't have the noise) when you order? Do you only get Toshiba's with certain specs (ie 5400rpm or 60GB) or is it luck of the draw?
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post #18 of 19
2/3/03 at 3:02am
Luck of the draw... but consider that the toshiba drive has 16 megs of cache as opposed to 8. Theoretically (and according to benchmarks) it is slightly faster. I personally would WANT the toshiba drives. The noise isn't all that bad (before or after IAA), and it's a great idea to have IAA installed in any case.
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post #19 of 19
2/3/03 at 11:40am
great thanks
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