topic Re: Vaio HD ticking in PCs & Accessories

Vaio HD ticking

elfuma — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:00:38 GMT

Hi everyone
I state in advance that I've searched in the forum before posting this thread.
I purchased a VAIO FS115S ten days ago, and I'm very glad about that.
I've just a doubt. Somethime I hear an annoying ticking from the left side of the pc, in the proximity of the hard disk zone.
The sound is like the hd swapping, but louder and shorter, and often is coupled with the hd regular noise.
This sound is more frequent (I guess) when I leave the pc on and still, and begins after some minutes of inactivity.
I would say that my experience about hd and hardware is only relative to desktop computers, so I can imagine this noise could be the regular behaviour of the laptops.
I know that the best thing to do is to refer to the seller, but I need my laptop for my work so it may be very important to know if I am or not a paranoic;-)

Thanks in advance

Re: Vaio HD ticking

kee-lo_ — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:04:48 GMT

A lot of people have had this problem with A series notebooks and it was the concensus that it was normal.

Guess you could try one at the shop to see if it does the same.

Re: Vaio HD ticking

Foxhound — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:06:47 GMT

I've heard the ticking is because of the energy saving function of the Hitachi HDD used in the Sony Notebooks.

Re: Vaio HD ticking

seb21__ — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:35:12 GMT

LOL, I have switch of this more or less, uselfull or useless feature.

Re: Vaio HD ticking

Milo2201 — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:02:42 GMT

easy load Alison Krauss and chill..heat problem tick problem ... easy answer..after restore hope it works as well as a brick ><<<<:>

Re: Vaio HD ticking

kee-lo_ — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:40:13 GMT

easy load Alison Krauss and chill..heat problem tick problem ... easy answer..after restore hope it works as well as a brick   ><<<<:>

Who?

Re: Vaio HD ticking

elfuma — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:02:36 GMT

Thank you for your answers.
The point that it's the "usual" behaviour of the power saving routine of the HD allows me to accept it more easily.
This is the only flaw I've detected in this laptop, I think I could forgive Sony for that 😉

Thank you again

Bye

Luca

Re: Vaio HD ticking

Eugenepang — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:29:49 GMT

my vaio also had this kind of tick..tick.. tick.. tho its no very loud.. coz my old vaio is louder...