Tractor?

" Anthony" wrote in message
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"Eddie Grant" wrote in
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I was just wondering if the people at Packard
Bell try to make their pcs
as
noisy as possible.... Is it just me or do they
engineer them to sound like
tractors?

Just curious, thats all

I dunno, but I think I rember a simailr post a
couple weeks back about "TRACTOR" noise. IF I
rember it correctly if could be attributed to a
hard drive going south, but I could be wrong.
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Anthony
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I was close....found this on google groups....


From: "*"
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell
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Subject: 'Tractor' Hard Disks
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:24 EDT

That rough grumbling you hear is from the HD
sticking a tiny bit and/or not
getting enough power at startup to get the
platters spinning, usaly happens
when you eather have 2 or more HDs starting at
once or theres too much
currentdraw on the power supply.
just power down and back on before the platters
stop spinning that will take
care of that noise and keep your system from
crashing.
my system does it too, I have 3 HD in my PB Axcel
42cd, factory 320meg + a
2.5gig + 5.5gig the 2 &5gig drives are in
removable drive trays, the mount
that stays in my computer for each tray has a
cooling fan, so all those
motors draw a lot of juice from the power supply.

Speaking of your co's filters I got the reply I sent u back(I have to
remember "Reply to Group" not just reply.)

whats your Q?

"Elector" wrote in message
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" Anthony" wrote in message
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I was close....found this on google groups....


From: "*"
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell
References:
Subject: 'Tractor' Hard Disks
Lines: 22
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:24 EDT

That rough grumbling you hear is from the HD
sticking a tiny bit and/or not
getting enough power at startup to get the
platters spinning, usaly happens
when you eather have 2 or more HDs starting at
once or theres too much
currentdraw on the power supply.
just power down and back on before the platters
stop spinning that will take
care of that noise and keep your system from
crashing.
my system does it too, I have 3 HD in my PB Axcel
42cd, factory 320meg + a
2.5gig + 5.5gig the 2 &5gig drives are in
removable drive trays, the mount
that stays in my computer for each tray has a
cooling fan, so all those
motors draw a lot of juice from the power supply.



Anthony:

I emailed you from my job and got no reply. As I said you may have
written back but the damn filters we have in place stop 99.9% of all
mail..ha ha

Cuts down on my typing replies. ha ha

Write me. I have a good Packard Bell question-suggestion for you.

Elector