I've been using laptops since '96 and I had not witnessed this behaviour until my new D600 arrived (the ticking noises occur since the day I first got the machine from Dell).
I'm not concerned with ticking noises when there is disk activity (although even then it's generally softer than what I'm experiencing), but in this case the ticking occurs while the harddrive is idle (the hdd led does not show any activity), and stops when there is hdd activity.
I ran the system's harddrive diagnostics tests and they showed no problems so I ignored it for a while, but recently it also intermittently makes a loud (single) click noise, which is similar to what I experienced on my old cpi 300 which eventually ended in hard drive failure (out of warranty so I bought a new generic laptop drive for it).
Now this loud tick is worrying me. Any suggested course of action? (preferably before I suffer dataloss)
I am having this problem too. I do not get any loud clicks though. Just a faint, VERY iritating, fast ticking sound. There is no hard drive access. It goes away as soon as I do anything then come back later.
This is the second harddrive I have had from Dell for this C600 notebook and the first one did not do this at all. This one has been doing it since day one. It just started doing it again.
Please give us an answer on this. "You should not be concerned" is not good enough. I'ma computer professional as well and I know this should not be happening.
I'm going to give this a try as well (as soon as I figure out how to make a bootable usb or cdrom) :p
tnx.
-- update: downloaded the patch, made a bootable cdrom with the files on it and ran the tool (dft), which says that my firmware doesn't need updating.....
So I guess it appears I'm stuck with this ticking noise until at some point it dies
Message Edited by Woonjas on 08-11-2004 08:57 PM
-- update: borrowed a usb floppy drive and used the floppy image instead, ran the update and sofar so good, it appears to have worked.
DELL-Corey
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July 28th, 2004 14:00
Thank you for using Dell's Community Forum.
The HDDs on portables do make a little more noise than desktops; I would not be concerned with that noise.
Woonjas
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August 3rd, 2004 08:00
I've been using laptops since '96 and I had not witnessed this behaviour until my new D600 arrived (the ticking noises occur since the day I first got the machine from Dell).
I'm not concerned with ticking noises when there is disk activity (although even then it's generally softer than what I'm experiencing), but in this case the ticking occurs while the harddrive is idle (the hdd led does not show any activity), and stops when there is hdd activity.
I ran the system's harddrive diagnostics tests and they showed no problems so I ignored it for a while, but recently it also intermittently makes a loud (single) click noise, which is similar to what I experienced on my old cpi 300 which eventually ended in hard drive failure (out of warranty so I bought a new generic laptop drive for it).
Now this loud tick is worrying me. Any suggested course of action? (preferably before I suffer dataloss)
cheers
Message Edited by Woonjas on 08-04-2004 06:23 AM
GBsouth
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August 5th, 2004 17:00
Correction. I should have said D600, not C600, notebook. Any help on this would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks!!
GBsouth
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August 5th, 2004 17:00
I am having this problem too. I do not get any loud clicks though. Just a faint, VERY iritating, fast ticking sound. There is no hard drive access. It goes away as soon as I do anything then come back later.
This is the second harddrive I have had from Dell for this C600 notebook and the first one did not do this at all. This one has been doing it since day one. It just started doing it again.
Please give us an answer on this. "You should not be concerned" is not good enough. I'ma computer professional as well and I know this should not be happening.
WiG
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August 6th, 2004 07:00
Have you checked the Dell's Download section? There is firmware update for HDs.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/type.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D600&category=0&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=4951&devlib=26
sparticus1262
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August 6th, 2004 19:00
Woonjas
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August 10th, 2004 10:00
I'm going to give this a try as well (as soon as I figure out how to make a bootable usb or cdrom) :p
tnx.
-- update: downloaded the patch, made a bootable cdrom with the files on it and ran the tool (dft), which says that my firmware doesn't need updating.....
So I guess it appears I'm stuck with this ticking noise until at some point it dies
Message Edited by Woonjas on 08-11-2004 08:57 PM
-- update: borrowed a usb floppy drive and used the floppy image instead, ran the update and sofar so good, it appears to have worked.
Message Edited by Woonjas on 08-18-2004 02:12 PM
sparticus1262
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August 10th, 2004 13:00