How - Possibly - To Get Rid Of An Annoying Clicking Noise On The Hard Disc

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How - Possibly - To Get Rid Of Any Annoying Clicking Noise On The Hard Disc - that sometimes occurs on the FE11S and other Sony laptops.

I have cut and pasted some posts I made on the main thread - since it may have become stale in peoples eyes and they no longer look at it.

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So I have this annoying clicking sound like everyone else - and it really annoys me - I take the sony to bed and listen to internet radio on it at low volume so the click is really bad in that situation.

I (think) I then came to this forum - Only because of this - way back - and turned off the disc power save options so that it was always on. And if memory serves well it went away and happiness and joy and the delight of having a lovely FGE11S machine returned to me.

This was the case for many many months.

Now it has returned arggh and I have no idea why. The only thing that I think of that I may have done is take it out on a little trip. But I am not sure. It is one of those things that you ignore at first and pay little attention to - but like Japanese water torture it builds and builds and builds.

So I came back to find the definitive solution after all this time and guess what it is still an ongoing thread. Sadness and misery.

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Ah maybe I have remebered what I did now.

It was all nice and quiet and lovely with the hard disc set to never power off. The one day I decided to make even it even more quiet by seeing what happened if I set the hard discs to power off after 5mins of inactivity.

It may have been then that it restarted. But now with the discs never powering off again it has not gone away.

I think it might be related to a certain mix of going into sleep - suspend and disc power settings.

But argh argh argh -m I just don't know. Boo hoo.

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Now get this.

I thought I might try and see what changing the power settings and turning it off and back on might achieve.

I was going to keep a log of my attempts.

I put the turn hard discs off after 5 mins when on mains and turned it off by pressing the power button - a hunch. Not the norml windows shut down.

I then rebooted it.

As a first bit of investigation I was interested to see if there was a clicking sound before I logged in. If not it would imply a user setting. There was none.

I have now just logged in to my user account and there is still no clicking noise. Sorry but I am so happy that I am not prepared to touch anything now just in case it was a one off. (Maybe it will come back anyway - in which case I will let you know).

But if you are having problems it may be worth trying some mix of forced shut down and reboots. Keep an exact record of what you do and if you have success post it here and be loved by the many that you will have helped.

Fingers crossed.

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So maybe a solution there.

It has still not come back but I have avoided a reboot in case it comes back. Enjoy the silence while I can!

So I think it has to be related to shut down and power settings in some way.

[Steve.Francis]

Im sorry, but after reading all that I am still unsure of what clicking noise you are talking about.

If it is the sound of when you click either button in your mouse, why should that sound be played when you go into a radio website and just listen to the radio, not clicking on any button of your mouse, regardless of your power saving configuration?

Anyhow, if it a windows sound you can change/remove all of those.

Anyway can you please tell us what the sound is like and when it triggers?

[Thalamus.]

Im sorry, but after reading all that I am still unsure of what clicking noise you are talking about.

I don't understand what you're referring to either..

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Sorry I have improved the wording.

It related to the hard disc.

There has been a very long thread on this built up over a few years.

I have since rebooted and the clicking noise remains banished.

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The system I outline works for sure.

No need for hardware changes or firmware fixes.