Clicking harddisk sound FE11S sequel

[Carelino]

Now just like a lot of Vaio FE11S users I had the clicking sound where my hardisk is. People who suggest it is the hardisk working, please save me the trouble of telling 100 times it is not the harddisk working sound. I had enough laptops to know the difference.

DOWNLOAD CLICKING SOUND

Now what I would like to know is if there has been anyone who send his/her laptop to Sony back to let them check it out. If yes, I ofcourse would really like to know what sony told you or what you did eventually. It seems to me nobody knows the solution. I did call sony and told them everything about the problem. They said it was something wich is new to them. I gave them the club-vaio link where people posted about the same problem. This coming week I am going to send my laptop to sony, this clicking sound disturbs me a lot.

I know that there are previous threads about this Old thread about clicking sound link , but I wanted to post a sequal where people could post their experience and opinion. Please don't suggest me to open up my harddisk or laptop, and once again it is NOT the harddisk working sound.

What happens: "The hard disk makes irregularly a clicking sound which is pretty loud two. Most certainly is not a working sound. It sounds like something is hitting the plastic of the laptop or something else. When I shut down my laptop and restart the sound is gone for a while." I personally think it has something to do with the reading arm. The clicking sound appears always when the laptop is not working. It's like when the harddisk is not working it cant get into the resting position, and keep on trying. I hope sony is going to spend serious time on this problem, especially it seems to be a common problem.

Important suggestions and remarks of others:

hard drive is made by fujitsu & they have a diagnostic software tool on the fujitsu web site & when i ran it, the program said no hard drive found on laptop, i spoke to fujitsu & they said i should wait for later version of software to come out, which i will do! anyone who goes to fujitsu web site, the version i tryed is 6.40

This is the response I have received from Fujitsu regarding the issue: We connected this drive MHV2160BT to our analyser and installed Windows XP Pro, we did not hear any obvious clicking noise unless you place your ear next to the drive so it is very quiet even though this does go into sleep mode at around every 4-10 seconds (idle). I would investigate if you can further into the specifications and configurations fitting of your Sony Laptop.

[ndros13]

i did a bios update, for the vgn-ar11m it was available on the sony update site. it didn't change the problem.

I am not sure the currently available bios update is supposed to solve the clicking issue, out-of-space. I am still daily refreshing my vaio-link page for a new update...

Hope your dell suits you!

[edwoodjnr]

I received the official HDD update CD from Sony today, it contains 3 files totalling 1mb. I ran it on my FE21M and am now monitoring how the clicking sound is.

I will let you know how I get on with it.

Ed

[ndros13]

Finally, the long-anticipated update, thanks for posting edwoodjnr!

[edwoodjnr]

I will let you know how I get on with it.

Well I would say it is better than before but it isn't totally fixed. I still get the odd clunkity sound every so often, say once every 2 - 3 mins

I doubt very much there will be another update from Sony on this.

Ed

[chanduwrites]

Hi,

I have purchased a new laptop Vgn-fe31M with a core 2 duo processor inside and now i have a problem with the mouse clicking. when i drag the scroll bar or minimizing windows or such kind of activties done with the mouse gives noise.

could any body help me in this?

regards

[kee-lo_]

This doesn't have anything to do with this, please open a new thread and do not hijack other's posts.

[Dekart]

Hi, edwoodjnr.

And where can i download this update? On the vaio-link they have just an old driver pack.

[edwoodjnr]

You get it direct from Sony or I could post it for those who want it but it does say that it is for the MHV2160BT Fujitsu drive which is the one that is put in the FE21M - I am not sure if it is the same in other Vaio's.

Let me know if you want to give it a try.


Ed

[calomniator]

Hi,

I have a sony vaio FE-21M and i'd like to try the file you got from sony.
Could you post a link to download it ?

Thanks !

[Tskr]

Hi,

I have a sony vaio FE-21M and i'd like to try the file you got from sony.
Could you post a link to download it ?

Thanks !

Yes! post-it please!