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Presario 5555
Hi,
I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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Hard drive clicking and clacking to deal with bad sectors which have developed
on the drive? ... Ben Myers On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hi, I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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Arrrrr,
Yer hard drive maty, shes gonna blow. Arrrr |
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Hard drive clicking and clacking to deal with bad sectors which have
developed on the drive? ... Ben Myers Not really convinced, Ben... it doesn't _sound_ like the drive. It's more like the switching sound you get with the on/off button, or going in and out of standby mode. It doesn't seem to be affecting performance. Power-management, perhaps? That seem feasible? It actually seems to do it most when the PC's doing nothing, if that rings any bells? Thanks, anyway. Much appreciated. Tzuraster. |
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Yer hard drive maty, shes gonna blow.
Arrrr Thanks, mate. See my reply to Ben. Have backed-up my data, JIC ;-) Tzuraster. |
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One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the HPaq web
site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system with a 13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely wretched piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your system has one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst reliability records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a tale too long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hi, I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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While I agree with you, I have a Presario 5600 still running its original
Bigfoot! ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the HPaq web site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system with a 13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely wretched piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your system has one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst reliability records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a tale too long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hi, I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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May I suggest that you identify the manufacturer and model of the drive, then
download and run the drive manufacturer's hard drive diagnostic software, which is at least 100x more thorough and authoritative than scumdisk, er, scandisk, in finding out the state of the drive? If there is even one bad sector on the drive, replace it... Ben Myers On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:52:32 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hard drive clicking and clacking to deal with bad sectors which have developed on the drive? ... Ben Myers Not really convinced, Ben... it doesn't _sound_ like the drive. It's more like the switching sound you get with the on/off button, or going in and out of standby mode. It doesn't seem to be affecting performance. Power-management, perhaps? That seem feasible? It actually seems to do it most when the PC's doing nothing, if that rings any bells? Thanks, anyway. Much appreciated. Tzuraster. |
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Tom,
Count your blessings. Then shop, quickly, for a replacement drive. A 5-year-old Bigfoot is living on borrowed time, much like a patient who has been told by the doctor that the disease is fatal. The Bigfoot drives have irreversible birth defects... Ben Myers On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:16:16 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: While I agree with you, I have a Presario 5600 still running its original Bigfoot! ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the HPaq web site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system with a 13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely wretched piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your system has one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst reliability records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a tale too long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hi, I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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Tom,
Count your blessings. Then shop, quickly, for a replacement drive. A 5-year-old Bigfoot is living on borrowed time, much like a patient who has been told by the doctor that the disease is fatal. The Bigfoot drives have irreversible birth defects... Ben Myers On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:16:16 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: While I agree with you, I have a Presario 5600 still running its original Bigfoot! ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the HPaq web site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system with a 13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely wretched piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your system has one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst reliability records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a tale too long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster" wrote: Hi, I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you get coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it makes, and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, Tzuraster. |
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