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New hard drive has intermittaet beeps Bob Kruse 01-04-2006
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Posted by Bob Kruse on January 4, 2006, 11:25 am
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 Hi all,

The laptop is a Dell C800. The old drive is an IBM Travelstar 20 gig.
The new drive is a Toshiba MK6034GAX 60 gig.

I replaced the old drive because it would often become undetectable.
A reboot would usually result in detecting the drive and windows would
load ok.

The new drive installed fine. Windows XP installed without a hitch.
But, there is an annoying beep sound that appears to come from the
hard drive and not the system speaker. I even disabled Beep in
windows and it still does it. Plus, sometimes it's not a full beep
sound but a half beep sound. It doesn't seem to correspond with hard
disk activity and it doesn't beep with a consistent pattern like error
code beeps would do. I connected it to my home network and it surfs
the net fine and other xp applications seem to work fine.

I searched the net for answers and most sites point to error code
beeps. Except that this computer POSTs fine. I only found one site
that said if you hear beeps from the hard disk, it should be replaced.

Now, it booted up fine repeatedly except one time when I got the
message that there was no bootable drive. Is this definitely a bad
hard disk or is it a possibility that it's a motherboard issue? Since
I don't have a spare motherboard to test with, my inclination is to
reformat the drive and take it back for exchange.

Any advice or ideas about the beep?

Thanks,
Bob Kruse

Posted by William P.N. Smith on January 4, 2006, 12:34 pm
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>But, there is an annoying beep sound that appears to come from the
>hard drive and not the system speaker.

Could this be the sounds of a quick head seek to the end of the disk
to swap out a defective sector? Try running the manufacturer's
diagnostic (Does Toshiba have a HD diag?).

You might even hear/see it happen with the speed or error scans from
the fine http://hdtune.com/ app...

Having intermittent drive problems with two separate drives isn't very
good, though...

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