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    My Vaio HDD is making a screeching noise

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by LooieENG, Oct 22, 2010.

  1. LooieENG

    LooieENG Notebook Consultant

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    It's a Vaio VPCEB2M0E

    It sounds like a screeching/crackling/rattling

    I just noticed it today, about 3-4 months after I bought it. It's actually pretty loud and really annoying, but even thought I could just "put up with it" as I'd no likely be told by most people, my friend has a Sony Vaio with the exact same issues, and his failed eventually. Should I contact Sony now or will I need to wait for it to fail?

    I checked the temps and they're all fine. Also, it does it while I'm not accessing the HDD heavily, but I just copied a 600MB from one partition to another and it stopped :confused:
     
    LooieENG, Oct 22, 2010
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    It sound like it could have an faulty bearing, it is an common reason for hdd failure, what brand of hdd is it?
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Oct 22, 2010
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    It's a Seagate Momentus (ST9320325AS)

    I have also noticed a rattling sound when moving my laptop, don't know if that means anything related as well?
     
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    ok I've downloaded that, but it's not happening any more. when it does I'll install and run it

    thanks
     
    LooieENG, Oct 24, 2010
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