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Clicking harddisk sound FE11S sequel

Topic started on Apr 14, 2006 10:13 PM , last reply on Oct 29, 2011 3:30 PM

in VAIO and Computing > Notebooks
285 posts since
Feb 13, 2006

Now just like a lot of Vaio FE11S users I had the clicking sound where my hardisk is. People who suggest it is the hardisk working, please save me the trouble of telling 100 times it is not the harddisk working sound. I had enough laptops to know the difference.

DOWNLOAD CLICKING SOUND

Now what I would like to know is if there has been anyone who send his/her laptop to Sony back to let them check it out. If yes, I ofcourse would really like to know what sony told you or what you did eventually. It seems to me nobody knows the solution. I did call sony and told them everything about the problem. They said it was something wich is new to them. I gave them the club-vaio link where people posted about the same problem. This coming week I am going to send my laptop to sony, this clicking sound disturbs me a lot.

I know that there are previous threads about this Old thread about clicking sound link , but I wanted to post a sequal where people could post their experience and opinion. Please don't suggest me to open up my harddisk or laptop, and once again it is NOT the harddisk working sound.

What happens: "The hard disk makes irregularly a clicking sound which is pretty loud two. Most certainly is not a working sound. It sounds like something is hitting the plastic of the laptop or something else. When I shut down my laptop and restart the sound is gone for a while." I personally think it has something to do with the reading arm. The clicking sound appears always when the laptop is not working. It's like when the harddisk is not working it cant get into the resting position, and keep on trying. I hope sony is going to spend serious time on this problem, especially it seems to be a common problem.

Important suggestions and remarks of others:

hard drive is made by fujitsu & they have a diagnostic software tool on the fujitsu web site & when i ran it, the program said no hard drive found on laptop, i spoke to fujitsu & they said i should wait for later version of software to come out, which i will do! anyone who goes to fujitsu web site, the version i tryed is 6.40

This is the response I have received from Fujitsu regarding the issue: We connected this drive MHV2160BT to our analyser and installed Windows XP Pro, we did not hear any obvious clicking noise unless you place your ear next to the drive so it is very quiet even though this does go into sleep mode at around every 4-10 seconds (idle). I would investigate if you can further into the specifications and configurations fitting of your Sony Laptop.


  • 33,090 posts since
    Oct 25, 2002
    Written on Apr 15, 2006 10:47 PM

    Try www.megaupload.com


  • 33,090 posts since
    Oct 25, 2002
    Written on Apr 16, 2006 7:27 PM

    That's abnormal, specially as it's nearly every 5 seconds


  • 33,090 posts since
    Oct 25, 2002
    Written on Apr 16, 2006 10:49 PM

    Yeah definately bring it up with them, it's not right


  • 38 posts since
    Feb 21, 2006
    Written on Apr 17, 2006 3:00 PM

    Carelino I have emailed your sound clip to my contact in fujitsu who previsouly set up the test bed system. 

    I will let you know his response!

    Mark


  • 33,090 posts since
    Oct 25, 2002
    Written on Apr 17, 2006 5:15 PM

    That's great Mark, thanks


  • cabrio65 8 posts since
    Mar 22, 2006
    Written on Apr 17, 2006 7:53 PM

    have the same problem clicking sound and thought it was normal as its my first laptop.hope to get to know more about this problem


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