chirping sounds from laptop harddrive?

[upsdriver]

I've got a Asus u36sd and there seems to be small "chirping" noises coming from the left air vents. They are only audible when very quiet and about the same noise level as the harddrive. Can anyone confirm if this is normal and if it is infact coming from the HD?

 

[a15g]

You should take off the cover if it's easy enough to do it on your own and check and see if one of the fan blades are broken? Broken fan blades can cause that I'm not to sure myself.

Or maybe the fan itself is bad, who knows. Try holding the fan and not letting it spin and see if the chirping stops.

 

[God Mode]

Is it not the HD head seeking/stopping? My WD scorpio makes that chirping noise whenever windows spins the drive down.

 

[upsdriver]

You should take off the cover if it's easy enough to do it on your own and check and see if one of the fan blades are broken? Broken fan blades can cause that I'm not to sure myself.

Or maybe the fan itself is bad, who knows. Try holding the fan and not letting it spin and see if the chirping stops.

I'll try that but I've never opened up a laptop before so it's a bit daunting.

Is it not the HD head seeking/stopping? My WD scorpio makes that chirping noise whenever windows spins the drive down.

I don't think that's the case since the frequency is once every 2-3 seconds although it's somewhat irregular. I can also hear the normal HD activity sounds when it happens.

 

[mrblotto]

I've heard of similar noises coming from laptops. Almost a high-piched whine. Turned out disabling the CPU power saving features in the BIOS solved it.

Good luck!

 

[PowerYoga]

I've heard of similar noises coming from laptops. Almost a high-piched whine. Turned out disabling the CPU power saving features in the BIOS solved it.

Good luck!

That was my issue. My Dell XPS 1550 (or something) had a sharp power whine associated with some power settings. It sounded like a stuttering chirping and sharp whine that not everyone can hear. Disabling the c1 to c2 powerstate switch fixed it for me.