Widescreen 15 inch T61 here, does yours make weird noises?

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devilsrejection · #1 Post by **devilsrejection** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:54 am

Every once it a while it sounds like a marble is being dropped inside my laptop. Weird I know, but that is the best way I can put it.

I will try and record it, but it occurs so randomly.

Troels · #2 Post by **Troels** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:05 am

Sure

You have a Seagate 7200 RPM drive i presume?
The dropping marble sound is coming from the drive due to the R/W heads doing a sudden random parking due to a firmware bug/fault and thus hits a "wall" or something.

I really hope Seagate will correct this issue very soon. It was also a issue with T60s

devilsrejection · #3 Post by **devilsrejection** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:37 am

thank you very much! i'm going to research this now!

edit: links to other threads with this issue?

Troels · #4 Post by **Troels** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:17 am

I haven't found much here, except:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=43167

Same issue with the Mac Mini in 2005

Yet Seagate still does nothing.
http://kiza.kcore.de/software/declunk/
http://macosg.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=3944

devilsrejection · #5 Post by **devilsrejection** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:46 am

i can deal with it, even tho i do not want to.

i'm just glad i don't risk loosing my data.

Widescreen 15 inch T61 here, does yours make weird noises?

Widescreen 15 inch T61 here, does yours make weird noises?

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