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    M1530 HDD SMART info

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dblegend, Dec 11, 2008.

  1. dblegend

    dblegend Newbie

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    Hey,

    I've had my M1530 just over a month, and i have noticed that my hard drive (Samsung HM500LI) keeps been making beeping noises. Its hard to catch because it only happens once or twice a day. It has had no effect on performance, so far.

    I ran HD Tune but it couldn't give me any details on the health of the drive, and all the options for S.M.A.R.T etc were greyed out in the info tab even though The HDD I have is supposed to be S.M.A.R.T. compliant.

    The HD Tune error scan and Chkdsk showed no errors but Samsungs "es tool" diagnostic kept crashing with "Exception occurred in module int_ahci.wdl".

    I can live with the beeping for now, but I'd like to get this SMART thing sorted out first. Its as if there is no SMART data at all. Its not just HDTune, other utilities can't find it either. Should I be looking to replace the hard drive?
     

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  2. neonkoala

    neonkoala Notebook Enthusiast

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    Do you have Vista 64-bit? I find lots of ACPI/drivers etc programs play nasty on x64. Might be worth installing XP to a partition or make an XP based WinPE CD.
     
    neonkoala, Dec 15, 2008
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    dblegend Newbie

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    No, 32-bit. I changed some settings from the BIOS. I'm now using ATA instead of AHCI, but I had to disable the flash cache module (I think its what lets you use flash memory as ram...). HD Tune now recognises that the SMART data is available, but I think the read/write speed of the HDD is a litte bit slower.
     
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    elitehomegifts Notebook Geek

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    run the dell diaggs on the hdd
     
    elitehomegifts, Dec 19, 2008
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