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Clicking sound solutions...

raskolnikov
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Clicking sound solutions...

Hi,

As we can see in othe threads, almost every 160gb Fujitsu hard drive in our Sony Vaio FE notebooks start making a clicking sound, something like a Tick-Tack, after long usage, specially under low activity.

In most cases Sony can do nothing to stop this, so the only thing we can do is try to find our own solutions to the problem.

Try not to make this thread grow too fast by just saying that you have the same problem: try different ways to solve the problem and report which ones work for you and which doesnt.

In my case, i've just tried putting a small piece of cloth between the HD and case, but it didn't work. However, a similar solution seems to have worked for some people, maybe they can tell ous what to do step by step.

I hope we can find a solution.

Moreover, if there is some Sony staff reading this, maybe it is time to give us some explanation, or even just a sorry. Maybe they can tell us a detailed technical description from their engineers...

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raskolnikov
Visitor

Very bad news... the sound has appeard again... :slight_frown:

I'm starting to get frightened... please, I need a solution for this! And I do not want to spend more €€€€ in a new HD...

raskolnikov
Visitor

Well, setting APM to 255 doesnt works as i've said, but further research leads me to conclude that at least helps...

As seen in other post, Fujitsu admits that the sound is APM related, so Sony must update the bios to solve that. But, why does the sound continues appearing (after long totally idle times now)? I checked with hdparm -I and saw that APM was set to 254 instead of 255, so it was not totally deactivated but set to the lowest level. It seems that APM can't be totally disabled in this HD... at least it helps a bit until Sony releases some fix.