New noise on dv9000t....Paranoid?

An ever so slight occasional cluck-clicking noise coming from the upper left inside....not all the time...mostly when the computer is on but idle and I am not performing any functions....

 

If I remember right, that's the area around the fan. Perhaps the fan turning on is causing the noise maybe because it's dirty or a blade is rubbing.

Mine is running Boinc at all idle times so the fan stays busy but I don't hear any clicking.

 

It is either the fan or harddrive.

 

Sounds like the hard drive to me..... I don't think that means it's bad, some hard drives have a feature where if they haven't been accessed for 30-60 seconds they'll park the hard drive heads. That can make a noise similar to what you describe. I had a Toshiba laptop that did it all the time and it drove me nuts. I seem to remember for an older Hitachi drive I had that there was a software app available for download from Hitachi that would change what power mode the drive was in and stop it from doing that.

 

I have a hitachi hard drive on my dv6000 s. Mine does exactly what “infinus” said. After about 30 to 40 seconds the hard drive stops writing and the blades park. When they do that it makes a clicking sound followed by what sounds like a droplet of water. After that it doesn’t do anything until you hit a key ect.

 

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool

That link..... hope it works..... has the Hitachi utilities for adjusting the power savings stuff on their hard drives. If you don't want it to do that you might want to mess with some of those. That's only for Hitachi drives.