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its like the sound of the hard drive working and its makin that sight beeping noise. You can hear it about every 3 to 5 seconds when your in a quiet room and also the hard drive light blinks when it makes that beeping sound.
Is it a beep or more of a skipping sound? My 2nd dv2000t would make a sound like the HDD was stopping then immediately spinning back up, usually when on battery power. Try doing a defrag and see if it gets you anywhere.
If it is something like a random noise, then it is absolutley normal. It happens in all hard drives. It is sound caused by the fast movemtn of the arm, in the hard disk. It nevers sits idel, and is always doing something that Windows wants it to do.
I do hear this "beep" but not so often as you, maybe once or twice every hour when it is loading up a game or vigorously accessing the HD, other than that nothing. Pretty silent.
Good to hear it's resolved. It must have been the same sound I had then. One thing you should check now, go to device manager and click on IDE/ATA/ATAPI Controllers then Primary IDE channel and go over to the Advanced Settings tab. Make sure that the current status of device 0 is something other than PIO transfer mode. I noticed after hearing the clicking sound that my hard drive defaulted to the slower PIO mode. If this did happen to you, the easiest way to fix is to uninstall that primary channel under device manager and reboot.
Dude...are you sure your Hard Drive is not using a SATA Controller in your notebook? Don't most of these dv2000t's come with SATA hard drives, not IDE? I know mine does and I know that my hard drive is connected to the SATA controller. My CD/DVD drive is using the Primary IDE. In device manager select view devices by connection to verify if your hard drive uses the Primary IDE or SATA controller. Neverthless, you're correct about not using PIO mode. Use DMA instead. I think what the original poster was hearing is normal HDD activity.
You're right, I was confusing the OP's HDD issue with a different issue I had with slow DVD burning as a result of too many check fault errors with the burner drive. Obviously reinstalling the primary IDE channel is going to have no effect on a HDD that is using a serial connection.
I know what you mean. The hard drive in my dv6000 does these squealing peeps too sometimes. I guess it's normal, although i had my doubts at first. But now that i see many people are hearing these beeps, then i'm sure everything is OK.
I realized that too, i can kinda hear when windows loads up since the hard drive is used, but after that, its quiet! As any laptops or computers if you pur ear close to it in a quiet room you can hear the hard drive, but thats normal, but even in a quiet room as i am typing this i cant hear anything, the laptop is quiet i love it...try defraging that helped
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
