Laptop HDD started "chirping" loudly
Hey Hey
I have a friend whose Compaq laptop has starting chirping and "singing" loudly. Little very loud high pitched noises whenever the HDD is being accessed. Incredibly loud and slow at startup, but then gets quieter and eventually the laptop becomes responsive and usable.
Impending failure ?
I have suggested imaging the drive now ASAP and he will be dropping it off later today.
Any ideas from the boffs here ?
Last edited by kilobits; 22-07-2012 at 10:14 AM.
Bearing warming up?
I thought maybe it was... but it does "the noise and slow thing" EVERY reboot... even after resume.Originally Posted by biometrics
It is VERY loud... it can be heard across the room.
Put some seeds in the cd rom drive.
Sounds like armature friction.
Uninstall angry birds.
LOL.
"It's like lifting up the queens skirt and then finding out she's wearing a thong" - Jeremy Clarkson
You blokes are "snaaks" indeed !
Here.. this is the sound it makes when booting... it sits on the Windows 7 "flying" windows thing and makes this sound for around 5 minutes...
http://www.techclean.co.za/v2/images...noyed_bird.mp3
Once the chirping stops, windows loads again... grrrr. I have not been able to image the drive as it reaches 20%, the chirping starts and everything times out and bombs.
Last edited by kilobits; 22-07-2012 at 01:07 PM.
Morse code. Hide, the Russians are invadingYou blokes are "snaaks" indeed !
Here.. this is the sound it makes when booting... it sits on the Windows 7 "flying" windows thing and makes this sound for around 5 minutes...
http://www.techclean.co.za/v2/images...noyed_bird.mp3
Once the chirping stops, windows loads again... grrrr. I have not been able to image the drive as it reaches 20%, the chirping starts and everything times out and bombs.
Never heard anything like that before in my life, really weird. Sound a bit like a metallic scraping sound.
What you using to image with?
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Ye Dogs! i have just popped in another 160GB hard drive... an Hitachi that I know is hundreds... and it now is making the same noises during a Windows 7 install !!!
This Compaq be possessed !!!
EDIT: Never mind....
Aaaagh! Dammned Tablet ... false alarm... the bloody tablet just played the sound I ftp'd earlier. Phew... shjoe and yoh...
Last edited by kilobits; 22-07-2012 at 01:21 PM.
It sounds like an antistatic bush which rubs on the end of the bearing. It will eventually grind the brass bush down and the noise will go away.
Apart from the noise it should work just fine.
You only get one chance to piss off a client. After that they are an ex client ...
In that case it could be bad caps/coils on the MB maybe causing the noise.
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Then it's most like the cpu fan. Clean the dust out.
You only get one chance to piss off a client. After that they are an ex client ...
I have the offending Seagate drive in an external enclosure on another machine... it is definitely the drive, the same single bird dawn chorus / Morse code sounds... just louder now.
In case you missed my earlier edit... the sound I heard with the new drive in the laptop was the recording playing back on my tablet... for some reason it decided it needed to play the sound I ftp'd earlier as Windows logo began to fly onto screen... weird timing and a relieved chuckle.
What are we to do with you kilo, eish!
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Here... the Justin Bieber of hard drives... tralalalalalaWhat are we to do with you kilo, eish!
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