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    HDD Noise - XPS M1530 Issue

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by qtq, Sep 29, 2008.

  1. qtq

    qtq Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone know how to stop the noise of the HDD?This noise started to annoy me.The sound is like if i was installing something every 10min.
     
    qtq, Sep 29, 2008
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    you can use a program call "hdparm" it's orignally for linux but was ported to windows..
    just google "hdparm for windows"
    use this paramaters to disable power managment and the noises:
    "hdparm -B 255 hda"

    cheers
     
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    qtq Notebook Enthusiast

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    I downloaded "hdparm" from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/

    But i don't know how to use it :confused:
     
    qtq, Oct 5, 2008
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