Clevo x7200 - regular high pitched noise inquiry.

I wonder if anyone has any idea of what the problem might be: my brand new x7200, 80gb SSD installed, makes a perfectly regular, faint and short high-pitched sound every 12 seconds or so.

It always happens at the time the blue hard drive activity LED is at its brightest - so I would imply that it has to do with the disc activity. I'd say it comes exactly from the spot where the blue disc activity LED is, and it mimics the blinking.

The sound is always the same, it reminds me of the regular drive activity sound yet an extremely nasty one, very much like capacitor whine.

The sound occurs both when the laptop is battery-powered and when it is being charged.

Is it the way SSD drive is supposed to work? Is it the normal sound it is supposed to make? What sort of activity might address the drive every 12 seconds, no matter what i am doing?

Is the sound connected to the disc at all - or does it indicate a bad motherboard?

I would appreciate any opinion or input at all - it is very important for me to decide what to do about it.

Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: whenever I disable the secondary, non-SSD drive in the device manager - the regular whining sound completely disappears! After I enabled the drive back - the sound eventually returns. I guess it successfully rules out the SSD problems - but does it mean that the problem is caused by the 500gb 7200 drive exclusively?

 

hi
first thing is to contact your tech support as its a new machine.
secondly is there any way you can record the sound and post it on here (post to youtube or photobucket) so it gives everyone an idea on here so they can give advice.

 

Thanks for the advice, MrDJ - I guess I will - but what i need is mostly an explanation, I would like to pinpoint the reason behind the issue first.

Yeah, it would have been great, but my mobile phone voice recorder seems to be unable to catch this subtle note... I will see what I can do about it.

I have one solid update though: whenever I disable the secondary, non-SSD drive in the device manager - the sound completely disappears! I guess it successfully rules out the SSD problems - but does it mean that the problem is caused by the 500gb 7200 drive exclusively?

 

I don't see how it could be anything else. Device X is running you hear a sound, you disable device X and the sound is gone, you then re-enable device X and the sound comes back. So sound = Device X

 

The sad thing is that it might as well be sound = motherboard socket connected to Device X...

 

Well from my experience any whining sound that is related to an HDD is usually the HDD itself. Either way your best bet is to contact support and tell them your findings, they will know what to do