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Hi,
I hope somebody can give me an opinion from his experience. This laptop is 4 months old, Asus X501A. I had to return another one to Amazon because it made some bad clicking noises and the hard disk was faulty as Hard Disk Sentinel said it was with 68% health new. So, this laptop model might have a bad hard disk (Seagate).
Anyway, I recorded the noise with my phone and here is the link. The three files are about the same. 30 seconds with this little buzz, then some click, and then silence, only to start again a little later. The clicks have always been there, I heard it was no problem, the heads parking or something not bad. But this buzz... It is low, not as loud as the recordings may show, but still it surely is a sign of a serious problem.
By the way, I installed W8.1 from scratch, a clean install, and it did't go away. It was on W8 and it is on W8.1.
Here goes the link: Redirecting... (small 30 secs 3gp files)
Thanks for your opinions in advance.
Cheers.
I hope somebody can give me an opinion from his experience. This laptop is 4 months old, Asus X501A. I had to return another one to Amazon because it made some bad clicking noises and the hard disk was faulty as Hard Disk Sentinel said it was with 68% health new. So, this laptop model might have a bad hard disk (Seagate).
Anyway, I recorded the noise with my phone and here is the link. The three files are about the same. 30 seconds with this little buzz, then some click, and then silence, only to start again a little later. The clicks have always been there, I heard it was no problem, the heads parking or something not bad. But this buzz... It is low, not as loud as the recordings may show, but still it surely is a sign of a serious problem.
By the way, I installed W8.1 from scratch, a clean install, and it did't go away. It was on W8 and it is on W8.1.
Here goes the link: Redirecting... (small 30 secs 3gp files)
Thanks for your opinions in advance.
Cheers.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus X501A
- CPU
- Pentium 2020M 2.4GHz Ivy Bridge
- Motherboard
- ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X501A1 (SOCKET 0)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics
- Sound Card
- Realtek High Definition Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1366x768 Generic PnP Monitor on Intel HD Graphics
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- 298GB Western Digital WDC WD3200BPVT-80JJ5T0 (SATA)
- Mouse
- Always touchpad with Asus' Smart Gestures
- Browser
- 7star
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender