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    NP8130 - HDD blinking/spinning every second?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by betelgeuse4721, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. betelgeuse4721

    betelgeuse4721 Newbie

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    Hey everyone,

    I just got my NP8130 and it kicks supreme booty.

    However, I noticed that literally every second, the HDD LED indicator blinks.

    Also, I hear the HDD working with random little "clicks" even at idle.

    Any ideas how to stop this?

    Thanks,
    Brady
     
    betelgeuse4721, Jul 21, 2011
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    Even at idle, if you've got processes running on the machine, there will always be hard drive activity. If you're hearing this from a secondary drive though, that would be unusual. How loud are the clicks? If it's really faint, it may just be the sound of the heads parking after it does whatever access it needed.

    The only way to totally stop hard drive reads/writes is to shut the machine off/ put it to sleep :p
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Jul 21, 2011
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  3. Bryanu

    Bryanu Notebook Deity

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    Yup, the thing with Windows is that its always doing something on the drive. When the computer is not doing anything it will find something to do, normally indexing the drives or something silly.

    Also, some drives natrually make a little more sounds than others. For example I have seen some seagates make odd sounds but run 5+ years and still going strong.

    If you want to be safe you can run a full diag on the drive using whatever the drive manufactures tools are and it will do a sector by sector scan and test the memory ect on it. Odds are its fine though if you are running fine.
     
    Bryanu, Jul 21, 2011
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  4. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    lol my thinkpad t23 from y2k makes funny sounds when it reads and writes from the drive, 30gb 4200rpm. basically its a beast with savage integrated graphics 32mb, and 384mb of system ram, 1.13ghz pentium III m. when i use it im in beast mode.
     
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  5. betelgeuse4721

    betelgeuse4721 Newbie

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    It's like a faint little clicking noise if I get real close to my keyboard-

    I guess it's normal but I'm just not used to it I guess.
     
    betelgeuse4721, Jul 23, 2011
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  6. Altered Phoenix

    Altered Phoenix Notebook Evangelist

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    Well when I use my laptop I usually look at the screen and don't have my ear on the keyboard... :p
     
    Altered Phoenix, Jul 23, 2011
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