m1330 hd sound problem

hey guys.

first of all, when i boot my system up, everything works fine. There is also the sound of the hard drive as the OS boots up, which is normal.

After the whole boot sequence is over, and is on the desktop, the hard drive continues to make the sound.

It seems to make the sound even when im idle, and have no programs running. Its only after about 5-10 mins that the hard drive sound seems to disperse.... but it seems to spontaneously appear then disapear.

Any solutions or input?

 

Sucky Windows Vista!

Disable indexing per example... Vista doesn't need an user to entertain itself and therefore creates backups, moves files, indexes files...

 

Can you describe the sound better? Is it like a high pitch morse code type squeal??

If so search high pitch and squeal, there is tons of info...

This is from Dell:

http://support.dell.com/support/top...d=0A7D5CD2E17F5125E0401E0A55176204&doclang=en

 

Your triple-post won't help here flamenko, despite your reputation and experience (which I respect).

It's simply just Windows Vista with all its background services (indexing the most obvious here). Since you're the lucky canuck with the SSD you won't hear this noise, but we poor human beings with ordinary storage devices are plagued with those normal access-sounds those rotating things make.

Disable indexing or install another OS. Since the noise stops after about 5-10 minutes it's very unlikely to be a hardware failure. I got the same problem too with my shiny new desktop.

 

Yes but Im still a SSD newbie trying to work out my glitches; this being the reason for the triple post. I think my Internet connection stopped briefly.

Its all the fine tuning that I love..

That sound would be unusual though dont you think if its not the squeal itself? My last replacement HD on y m1210 was because when it would search, it would 'scratch' which was an awful sound.

 

I too have the harddrive noice and high pitch noice, driving me crazy. I'll be reinstalling vista and maybe later on xp pro. Just to see if anything chagnes...

 

Dell knows about a hard drive noise (which is something I was tested for when I reported the squeal).

There's 2 major sound problems that most users (including myself) notice.

1) CPU Whine (the weird morse code squeal noise that comes from your Processor chip)

2)Hard Drive noise. Now the hard drive noise should be quite loud and according to the rep that I spoke to, it should be auidable over the phone.

To prove that you have a hard drive problem or not follow these instructions

1) Boot up your M1330 and at the dell screen wait for "Press F12 to go to Boot menu" text to show up and press "F12"

2) When it loads, scroll down to "Diagnostics" and hit enter

By now, your system should be running a short built-in test

If your system is not defective you should be prompted with:

"No problems have been found with this system so far. Do you want to run the remaining memory tests? Thjis will take about 30 minutes or more. Do you want to continue?"

3) At this point, select "no"

You should now enter a different screen which looks more or less like windows

select "Test System"

Wait for the drivers to load and you will be prompted with another screen

4) Select "Customize Test" Scroll down to "Hard drive" and select "noise test" and run it to see if it can detect problems.

If there are no problems found then your problem is not the "hard drive noise" problem but "CPU whine" which cannot be fixed other than 1)Returning the laptop 2) Filing for system exchange

 

Good Post...repped buddy.

 

its definately not the CPU whine.

im pretty sure its the hard drive noise. However, what are the cons to disabling indexing?

 

None....disabling indexing is actually a well documented performance tweak for Vista.

You can just click on computer/right click on local disk c: drive/properties/uncheck "index this drive for faster searching"