X40 : hard disk ticks all the time

[xgwang]

I just got a X40 (2371-H9U). I find that in windows XP, the hard disk ticks
and the HD light flashes ALL THE TIME (about every 3 seconds) ---
even if I am not doing anything,
even at the login window when I am not doing anything
even if I shutdown the wireless.

The ticking is definitely heardable. I can not stand it.
Even on my old crappy DELL laptop, the HD is absolutely quiet when
I am not doing anything.

I hope this is all caused by windows XP. This means I can stop the ticking
by disabling the related program.

I shall install linux on this computer. I hope the problem goes away
under linux. Can anybody confirm this ?

Thanks.
xgwang

[DavidNZ]

If it's new, chances are it is just XP getting itself sorted. If I recall, mine did something similar, although perhaps not as continuous, for the first 4 or 5 days.

David

[sugo]

This is what I recorded from my hitachi drive in a T42 (thrown back to IBM). Does the ticks sound similar?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yau/download/5k80Recordings.zip

[beerak]

I just got a X40 (2371-H9U). I find that in windows XP, the hard disk ticks
and the HD light flashes ALL THE TIME (about every 3 seconds) ---
even if I am not doing anything,
even at the login window when I am not doing anything
even if I shutdown the wireless.

The ticking is definitely heardable. I can not stand it.
Even on my old crappy DELL laptop, the HD is absolutely quiet when
I am not doing anything.

I hope this is all caused by windows XP. This means I can stop the ticking
by disabling the related program.

I shall install linux on this computer. I hope the problem goes away
under linux. Can anybody confirm this ?

Thanks.
xgwang

It is Windows issue.

My x40 did the same when I had 256ram, I upgraded to 512 and it does too, but not so often.

[MobileGuru]

Mine does the same thing with a full 1.5GB of memory. The problem is related to XP and seemed to go away for me when I tested it out with Linux. I hardly notice it now but in the beginning it was driving me nuts.