dv7 hard drive problem

Does anybody feel the hard drive when it's running?

I can acutally feel it spinning from my right hand, like viberation.

I got a dv7t with solo hard drive, 250G 5400rpm. It's a fujitsu MHZ2259BH G2, not a hitachi as i expected.

 

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you feel the vibration when it's accessing? or you feel it when it's sitting idle?

 

I feel it anytime it is runing.

is it over tightened? or just a bad drive?

btw, I just see 2 screws to fix the hard drive, while the manul says there three.

 

You shouldn't feel the hard drive when it's just sitting there idle... it also shouldn't be vibrating during seeking and usage... do you have a DVD/CD in the optical drive? That will cause vibrations when the disc spins up...

 

probably, I figured out the reason.

I have another laptop beside dv7, which also has a 5400 rpm hard drive, and an external drive on the desk with a 5400 rpm again. Possibly, they make sympathetic vibration? Since I can hear (hopefully not some psychology problem of mine) a very low frequence sound, which means a tiny difference of rpms between the drives.

I tried runing the machine as a LAPtop, it feels much better.

Then, the question is, a bad set of rubber feet on dv7?

 

There's a better chance of you hearing and feeling the external hard drive spin up and activity... especially if your external HD doesn't have sufficient dampening...

The rubber feet on the DV7 are fairly stiff and will transfer some vibrations from the table to notebook...

 

The viberation is really killing me, at least my wrist. So, I spend 2 nights to fix it. Here are the two possible reasons I found for this problem

1st, the inner rubber pad corresponding to the corner foot is right standing on the hard drive case, with a quite tight fit. So, the padder can not reduce the viberation properly.

2nd, probably the main reason, is that there is no rubber pad between the hard drive and its case. So the viberation from the hard drive directly is transfered to the case, and then by the 1st reason, to the frame.

So, here is what i did. i insert 4 very thin rubber gaskets (probably .3-.5mm thick, has to be very thin due to the compact design), between the screw and the case. Also, relocate the old inner rubber pad (in 1st) to the side of the bulge, as well as a new one with the same size on the other side to balance the pressure. Now it works much better. Though still a little bit feeling (hopefully just my psychology problem).

 

ummm - hard drives vibrate. i mean, if it's vibrating a lot to the point where it's bothering your wrists, then there is a problem.

mine is vibrating a tiny little bit under my left wrist right now as i am typing this... this is expected since hard drives have moving parts in them....

i dont know if it's your psychological problem of if you're just too picky. if it's too much of a pain, try getting a 320gb SSD drive.

:-D

 

The only thing my dv7 does is get warm after a while of using it hard. Almost no vibration at all. But some drives are louder than others. Call HP and have them swap out the drive.

 

yup... my DV7 doesn't have any vibrations when the hard drive is active... the only time it does vibrate is when I use the optical drive with discs that are not balanced properly... hard drives should not be vibrating the chassis that badly... it'll more than likely shake itself to death