Hurrah, Hallelujah esplendidos. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n
I have finally resolved (I think) an issue I’ve had intermittently since I bought my Dell Studio 1557 in November 2009.<\/p>\n
Hard Disk Clicking and beeping in a disturbing manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n Every once in a while (seemed to be worse in hot weather) the Hard disk would make a clicking noise accompanied by a beep from the system (like the beeps you get at startup). If you’ve ever had a hard disk crash, you’ll know the clicking sound. And it is a sound that makes you think your hard disk is going to crash – which instills fear into the heart.<\/p>\n You may remember in May I discovered the cause of the DVD drive not working well. <\/a> Well this HDD noise was the next niggly issue. It hasn’t stopped me from doing anything, but it has made me fearful for the life of my HDD.<\/p>\n This week I happened across this forum thread<\/a> which has 157 pages of chatter about the Studio 1557. It also gives insight into some of the problems people have had with them. Some a lot worse than mine. <\/p>\n Although I didn’t specifically find the noisy HDD issue solution there (I didn’t read the whole thread – it must be there somewhere) a few people made remarks about it, which made me search for a solution. The solution was buried in the drivers update page of the dell web site. Basically, it’s a known issue with a certain batch of Seagate HDDs. All you have to do is update the HDD firmware. <\/p>\n Firmware 4SDM1 or 5SDM1 fixes clicking noise <\/strong>on Seagate 2.5″ 7200RPM HDD’s Model #’s:<\/p>\n 160G – ST9160412AS DP\/N J423T So that involved <\/p>\n And here we are, next day and I have yet to hear the horribly nasty sound that makes me think my Hard drive is about to crash. I think it’s worked. Hurrah, Hallelujah esplendidos. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but the computer seems to be running slightly cooler as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurrah, Hallelujah esplendidos. \ud83d\ude00 I have finally resolved (I think) an issue I’ve had intermittently since I bought my Dell Studio 1557 in November 2009. Hard Disk Clicking and beeping in a disturbing manner. Every once in a while (seemed to be worse in hot weather) the Hard disk would make a clicking noise accompanied […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[36,57,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n250G – ST9250410AS DP\/N K556T
\n320G – ST9320423AS DP\/N F729T
\n500G – ST9500420AS DP\/N G629T <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n