U410 Constant HDD or Processor Noise

Hi there everyone, apologies if this is something that's been convered already, tried searching but could find no similar problems. Purchased a U410 back in early December and aside for some problems with it randomly shutting down without warning i've been reasonably pleased with it. 
The only issue i'm currently having is with a constant background noise the laptop is making. It basically sounds like either the hdd or the processor is constantly hard at work with a demanding programme, even when it's idling on the Windows 7 desktop. 
I've made sure no background programs are running, demanding services are turned off, I've turned off the Aero features... nothing that I can obviously see could be causing it, yet it sounds like it's rendering RAW images in Photoshop all the time! 
If anyone could give me a point in the direction of how to cure it, i'd be most grateful. 

How much free space do you have? as virtual memory that uses your hdd for storage can go bezerk if you dont have a lot of free space, i normally turn it of if you have 8gb or more, or it could be hdd file indexing or anti-virus.
You could try disabling all startup programs using msconfig, if the hdd noise stops it`s one of them, try tuning them on one at a time.
John.
Win7 Lenovo Ideapad Z580 i5-3210m HD4000 Win7 x64 8gb 1600MHz Samsung 830 256GB SSD

Similar Messages

  • Processor Noise.... Help.

    Ok. I own an iBook G3 (800MHz 32VRam).
    Whenever the processor inside the iBook is working or loading something I can hear a static-like noise coming from the processor. I was wondering if it was the hard drive so I put my ear up to the laptop and the noise doesn't come from the lower left quarter of the iBook. It comes from around the W key. I figured out how to get rid of the noise by going into energy saver and setting the processor speed to Reduced. But I wanna know if there is a cause of this problem and if it is unusual. Because apparently Im the only iBook owner that has this problem. Most MacBooks have this problem.
    Is there a way to fix it and still have high processor speed.

    I have 640MB of memory installed, and the iBook recognizes it as well.
    Memory: 640 MB
    The hard drive has nearly 15GB of free space left on it.
    And the noise happened even when it had 34GB of free space.
    As for my S.M.A.R.T Status it is verified.
    S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
    This processor noise always happens while starting up and when Im normally using it. The only way to get rid of it is to turn down the processor speed.
    The Hard Drive is new and has worked perfectly to this day and has had no problems so I don't think my hard drive has any issues.
    Do you think this may have anything to do with me feeding too much wattage into my iBook. Because I have a 65W power adapter and (as you told me in the other thread) iBooks were shipped with 45w adapters.

  • Headphone jack processor noise

    Hello,
    I understand this is a long post but I do not know how to explain it any other way.
    Recently I was in the market for a display for use with FCE Digital Cinema Desktop Preview. Now, it becomes disconcerting to look at video full screen and have the audio coming from 20 degrees away. So I hooked up a half-baked way to send a copy of the audio to the line in jack of the display, and to one of those 5-year old all-in-one cd player/tape player stereoes everyone has lying around. It involves using an audio interface. (If you want instructions on how to set this up without cutting off your internal speakers, drop a line). So the audio interface I was using was borrowed just for the purpose of testing this.
    Now, for several reasons, I was obliged to buy something through Sweetwater, a pro audio mail order website. However, they did not sell a cheap audio interface, and in fact the cheapest it got was around $60, way above my budget. (This is an el-cheapo setup, if you hadn't realized.) So instead I ordered the $30 Behringer UCA-202 from Amazon.
    I still had to order something from Sweetwater, and after I ordered the audio interface, I got financial backing to buy hugely expensive $100 speakers. (That was sarcasm.) So, I had two pairs to choose between, one by alesis with an audio interface built in, but no line out, and one from m-audio with no interface, just RCA jacks. I was recommended the m-audios, by several people because of quality, and since I had bought the interface already, it made sense.
    By some act of god, the speakers came earlier than the interface, but I had had to return my borrowed interface. So, I just hooked them up to the headphone jack of my macbook pro to pump some music through them. I was so blown away by their quality, I decided to do away with the whole nonsense of my crappy internal and display speakers. The speakers, however, did not have the processor noise issue commonly associated with MBP headphone jacks, but I thought it was my mind. It didn't matter anyway, because I still had to use the interface with my old stereo system for unrelated reasons, which I knew FOR SURE had the noise problem, right?????????
    I did a side by side test of both the interface and headphone jack on both pairs of speakers involved, and then some. In all tests (and I have good hearing for these things) there was NO DIFFERENCE. I was also amazed to find my audio interface was only 16-bit, while the headphone jack was 24-bit.
    So here I am, feeling totally ripped off by both behringer and apple, and here are my options:
    1. Use the interface anyway (which I don't want to do because it is of lesser quality)
    2. Keep the interface because as soon as I'm out $5 dollars to ship it back, I'm only getting $25 dollars from the return, and more than likely the noise will start as soon as the UPS guy picks it up.
    3. Return it anyway, because there's no way in **** the processor noise will come back
    4. Find that this is so strange, that I'll just return everything and hunt around in a landfill for an interface to replace the borrowed one above. :=)
    I guess my real question is whether the noise will come back. I think it went away as a result of a ram upgrade & smc reset a few months ago, because I've not used the headphone jack since.

    Dear sirs,
    this is my first post! First of all, I am sorry form my terrible english (english is not my first language).
    I purchased my iMac very recently. This is the first experience with Apple for me. It is nice, in general, but I am experiencing a problem with the audio out (mini-jack used as analogical out). When I connect the audio output minijack of the iMac with a cable (very good cable) to my Behringer mixer audio input, I hear a noise (like a white noise). Not continuously, only when I scroll something in a window on the screen. In general every time there is something that change on the screen, I hear this noise (on both channels).
    As for BMBell1919 user the level of the noise "is not impacted by adjusting the computer volume".
    I am a little bit surprised! A lot of people in the professional audio broadcasting say that Apple manufactures nice products…but if the quality of the internal sound peripheral is this one…i think Apple probably changed the quality standard of design and production.
    Is there any one that have the same problem that I am experiencing? Any suggestion to solve it? Is it an hardware problem? It need service?
    Thank you for your attention.
    Bye.

  • Idle processor noise

    has anybody here encountered an idle processor noise problem ? in macbook white ofcourse. I'd like to know about your experiences and how would you fix it
    I'm trying to dig this thing up because this problem is giving me depression.
    would apple aknowledge it ?

    It could be the GPU that's causing the fans to spin.

  • Constant HDD access (K8N Neo4 Platinum)

    Hello all, this is my first time posting on these forums.
    A couple of days ago I put together a new system for myself, with the following components:
    * Athlon64 3200+ processor
    * MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard
    * 1Gb RAM
    * Gigabyte 128Mb GeForce 6600GT graphics card
    * 2x Seagate 250Gb 7200rpm SATA drives
    * LG IDE dual-layer DVD-RW drive
    * Apacer 7-in-1 internal USB 2.0 card reader
    * Thermaltake "soprano" ATX midi-tower w/ 400W PSU
    The two hard drives I have connected to ports SATA5 and SATA6 on the motherboard and set up in a RAID1 configuration (using the on-board Silicon Image SiI 3114 RAID controller). I then installed Windows XP Professional, which went on fine. The only problem I have now is that the hard drives are being constantly accessed by the system, even when I'm doing nothing on the system. This isn't just an occasional access once every second or so, the little HDD LED just flickers away merrily the whole time. I have run both filemon and diskmon on the system, and found that while no particular files appear to be being accessed, there is almost constant write activity being performed to the hard drives.
    I have narrowed it down to somehow involving the Windows XP RAID drivers. If I boot from the Windows XP install disk and load the third party drivers for the SiI 3114, I get the constant disk access when sitting at the first screen of the install process ("Welcome to Windows XP" text-only screen). If I do the same without loading the drivers (thus Windows does not recognise the RAID drive), no disk access. I have tried updating the RAID controller drivers under the Device Manager (now up to version 1.2.0.0), but it does not fix the problem. I have done a full virus and spyware scan (bearing in mind that this is a clean install), with no results. I have checked all running processes and services (including making sure Indexing Service is not running), but have been unable to find anything that could be causing this constant activity. I have yet to try actually breaking the mirror and running the drives off the normal SATA controller. I will be trying that tonight when I get home if no other solution presents itself, but obviously I would rather get it behaving properly in RAID1 if at all possible.
    It's driving me crazy. There doesn't appear to be any actual issues with the performance of the machine, but the constant hard disk activity can't be good for the drives long-term. I have searched these forums for a possible solution, and while some people have had similar problems, none of the suggested solutions have worked for me so far. If anyone can help me with my dilemma, I would be Eternally Grateful(tm).

    Yes! At least I'm not alone... constant disk ticking is driving me nuts too.
    I have same issue with a newly built system - different board but Sil3114.
    My C: is on the NF4 SATA interface, but I have 4 250GB Seagaets on the Sil3114, intended for a RAID5 array. Having installed XP, I've become distracted by the constant disk access and have been trying everything to eliminate it before proceeding with the rest of the build - nogo. Your post gave me the clue - boot with Sil3114 disabled = no disk activity; boot with enabled = constant disk flogging.
    I've got the Sil driver up to 1.2.3.1 but no better. Suspect it may be the Sil3114 BIOS that needs upgrading but seems no way to flash it - have you got anywhere with your debugging?
    Appreciate a solution before I go crazy with the tick, tick tick....

  • Mac mini (late 2012) HDD ticking/clicking noises

    Hey everybody,
    So I picked up one of the new i7 Mac minis with the 1TB HDD and I have noticed sort of an annoying issue. I hear quiet ticking noises coming from the HDD which seem to occur randomly and I have noticed this happening when the HDD is idle. I was just wondering if anybody else had noticed this. Just as a test, close all your apps and go close to the mac mini and see if you can listen for the clicking/ticking noises. I want to see if others are having this issue before I take it in to get it exchanged.

    Yeah it's weird. I am sitting a couple feet away from it since it sits on my desk and I hear intermittent clicks from it which aren't very loud but they are louder than the regular HDD noise as the head is moving across the platters.If it is normal noise I can definitely live with it but if there is a chance that there might be a defect, I don't want to move my data to the drive, only to have it fail on me. As mentioned before, it only seems to happen when the HDD is idling.

  • Processor noise with audio output?

    I attached my Mac book pro to my 40" LCD TV along with an audio output from the headphones out to the input on the TV.
    What I noticed is that the "processor whine" that we all complain about that seems to cease when we are running things like photo booth, and intensify when we disconnect the AC adapter, is projected through the audio of my TV!!!!! When I mute the TV, away goes the whine. Strange huh?
    I don't know if this is a new revelation, or a known reproduction of the problem.
    So my question is, do you think there is a relationship between the poor output on the speakers (very little sound on bars 1 through 7) and this processor whine we complain about?
    I was generally happy with my MBP and would ignore the whine until my TV set amplified it.
    Do any of you also think that Apple would replace my MBP for this and the many other complaints? (Screen inverter defect, generally hot, and this noise output via cable)
    Thanks for your input on my future with this computer, like I said, I've always been happy with it until this output problem.

    My guess as to what causes the whine is this:
    There are many small copper traces on the motherboard carrying signals. There are two traces in question. One carries the power for the processor in low power mode. One carries the power to the sound card (or from the card to the speakers). Those two traces are too close together. So when power flows through the proc trace it induces electric current in the other trace, which causes the sound we hear from the speaker.
    It is a problem of the design of the MLB. So the fix would be to isolate the two traces.
    Just my idea.

  • HDD makes "electronic" noise

    Hi
    I have HP Pavilion 15 P079R15. When its working weird electronic noise (its like a sound when two electrized object contact each other). Frequency and loudness of this noise is very random, sometimes its very loud that makes me feel uncomfortable, sometimes i even cannot hear it. I live in Azerbaijan, Baku, so I took my laptop into BESTCOMP GROUP - local service partner of HP (I have warranty for 1 year), but they say it is normal - some HDDs make noise like this and they will not change Hard Disk in the terms of warranty. 
    I am not quiete sure about it. I would like to know, whether BESTCOMP GROUP telling the truth OR there should not be any '"electric noise" from HDD and they have to change HDD following the warranty
    I should tell that there is no performance problem on my laptop but according this noise, but this noise extremely annoys me when Im working on something in my computer.
    P.S I would like strongly emphasize that this noise is not the noise of turning hard disk. It is separate from that noise.
    Kind Regards
    Nail Mustafazade

    I have just sent you a private message. If you are not sure how to check your forum messages, this post
    has instructions.
    Malygris1
    I work on behalf of HP
    Please click Accept as Solution if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
    Click Kudos Thumbs Up on the right to say “Thanks” for helping!

  • Processor noise through headphone jack

    Do people still have the old processor hum on the headphone jack? Mine seems to be gone after an SMC reset and RAM upgrade a few months ago. Thoughts? Will it come back?
    Oh, and how do I edit a posting?

    Er... yes.
    I got my iMac yesterday after 10 years of Windows PCs, one I.T. job too many & having a Mac mini for 10 days!
    When it comes to audio I found with most PCs you'd get some noise - clicks and whirrs and whines and hisses. Even my main PC's fairly high-end Audigy 2 ZS sound card had some slight noise.
    So, one thing that really impressed me with the Mac mini (apart from its size and cuteness!) was the complete absence of electrical noise or interference from the headphone socket, even with the volume on full.
    However, after getting my iMac home, spending an hour in gobsmacked awe at the sheer beauty of it, then plugging in my headphones to diddle about with Garageband without annoying my green-with-envy flatmate, I was very disappointed to hear some low but noticeable electrical noise - alternating between a hiss and whine.
    Usually this was only really noticeable when no sound was playing, but after 10 minutes wearing headphones for general usage it did get a bit grating. Even with the volume turned right up and down the level of the noise didn't change.
    Looking at the system profiler it says that it uses an Intel High Definition Audio chip - this is probably the same one as used on (admittedly, better quality) Intel PC motherboards.
    Oh.
    Dear.
    And there was I thinking I was spending £1,299 on something different and more special.
    But have I regretted selling my main PC for £650 (it cost me £1000 to build less than a month ago! And thats without a monitor!)? Naaah... OS X over Windows any day! It's like owning an Amiga again (but thats another story!)
    Anyway, what sound chip does the Mac mini and the iMac G5 have? And is anybody else noticing the electrical noise with the Intel iMac? And is there anything I can do about it without having to show my reddening face at the Apple Store again?
    20" iMac Intel   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

  • Qosmio E10 is slow and HDD constantly makes noise

    Hi people
    i also have a toshiba qosmio e10 notebook. I have been having problems with it aswell lately.
    First it started of by a slow start up, and then at one time i started gettin error messeges.
    When i called the toshiba helpline was advised to do a disk check. I did that and the problem is still occuring.
    Now also the hard disk constantly makes noise, though once the computer had loaded up properly its usually fine its just during start up. Has one experiance thing similar?
    Whats the best thing to do?
    I am considering replacin the hard disk.
    All help will be appreciated. thanx

    Hi
    The disk (HDD) check will not solve any problems but this tool report some errors and problems with the HDD.
    You description sounds like an HDD malfunction.
    Maybe its a beginning of the end!
    Several months ago I have noticed something similar on my notebook.
    Two days after my 3 years old HDD was dead. It was simply head crash.
    Take my advice and backup your data

  • Constant faint ping pong noise coming from HD

    I think someone described the sound best as a "faint ping pong hitting a metal surface sound." The HD itself is fine, but this constant noise is irritating. It occurs about every 15 seconds, and is very noticeable in a quiet room.
    I bought a new MBP a couple weeks ago and reported this problem to Applecare. Applecare told me to go all the way to the Apple Store after waiting for about an hour even with the Genius Bar reservation online. Opened up the another MBP out of the box, still has the same problem.
    Is this sound affecting ALL new MBP's? I understand that this faint ping pong noise has been around on MBP's since 2007, and that Apple was made aware of it, but nothing seems to have been done. Why?

    You know what, I'm getting the exact same "ping pong" noise. It sounds like a ball dropping from a ping pong table. I think I can feel a tiny shake too. Mine doesn't happen as often as 15 seconds tho. Mine is more like every half hour? Weird. I don't have a new MBP either mine in 15" Intel Core Duo (I think 2007). I just hope its not a mother board problem. One last thing, My MBP seems to be quirky these days, after using it for long hours, the keyboard will type numbers instead of letters and miss a few characters here or there (after a few hours of usage). I'm trying to isolate these problems but no luck yet. Any one have any luck with a remedy. **** things just scare me! MBP is my bread n butter (I'm a designer).

  • X300 - fan/hdd making weird noise

    FYI notebook is <= 6 months old.
    Couple of days ago, I had my x300 on for few days without any downtime, did system upgrade (kernel changes included [debian lenny]) in the meantime. Then out of nowhere, this very loud weird breaks out, few years ago I heard pretty much the same noise, I didn't shut down my notebook, and result was ... my hdd died. 
    So I shut down my x300, let it "relax" for few hours. Few hours later, noise is much softer and quiter, since I thought it could even be made to changes to kernel, I tried with few other distros, but nothing really changed it. Now I first thought it was my fan that was making this weird noise, but now I'm almost 100% positive it's my hdd. Since x300 would remain completely silent until I saw it booted my root partition and hdd started working, then I would hear the noise as well. 
     I keep shutting it down now, if it's not shut down it's on suspend or hibernate, I'm really scared to leave it up all night. I tried going through this forum, Google of course and etc ... but nothing really solved my problem. Right now noise is completely ... you can barely hear it, but let's say I have bat ears so I can hear it all the time. 
    It goes away, but then few minutes after computer has been on it comes back, since I gave it its time to "rest" it's been quite quiet, the reason I don't send it to Lenovo support is because of my recent incident: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=X_Series_Thinkpads&thread.id=6612 
    and I pretty much just got it from them, so if I really don't want to go through whole thing agian.
    Any thoughts, ideas, please do let me know.
    Message Edited by AbsintheSyringe on 01-25-2009 05:47 PM

    I recommend you try to remove the battery and boot it if the noise is still there or not.
    SDD might not have any noise from my experiences.
    You're so hard to vertiy where the noise comes from , because the material of x300 is so easily passing the sound everywhere.
    Most common problems are came from the fan, the cpu (can not be solven), the battery(common issue)
    BTW, the x300 is supposed to be loud....i own one, I have the same problem, just use tpfancontrol and kick the noise out

  • Constant HDD access

    I seem to be having a constant hard disk write of about 250kb/second. I can hear the HDD grinding away all the time, which is quite annoying.
    I've turned off Spotlight, or removed the main drive from its index, and yet it keeps going... Does anyone else have a similar problem? Or maybe ideas to work out what's actually causing the write?
    The machine is a MacBookPro - a slightly older one...
    Many thanks for any light you can shed.

    As much as I know to check, yes.
    Lots of space on the harddisk... It's not a RAM problem that I can see - over a gig and a half spare... Disk itself seems fine. I'm afraid I think repairing permissions isn't always the best way to go, but I tried it anyway.
    I made a 'clean' admin account, and it still churns away.
    Activity monitor was what told me about the 250kb/second write.
    I know how to use Terminal, but I'm by no means an expert.

  • Processor noise when executing commands

    Whenever I am using my earphones through a Bose amplifier, I can clearly hear the processor on my new iMac making white noise upon executing and command?
    Is this considered "Normal"??

    Hi Topher,
    Thanks for the reply, however, I spent way too much money on this desktop to just accept disk drive noise.
    I am still in warranty, and think Apple should make it right, especially in the fact that this is my second machine, as the first one had other hardware issues where all the fans came on as soon as I powered down that machine.
    I am disappointed in their quality so far. You can't just open this iMac to work on it anyway!
    Now what do I do?
    BTW, I used to sell Amphenol connectors for a living to Apple and many other OEM Mfg.

  • Tecra A2: HDD making funny noises crashing laptop

    Today, I turned on my laptop, got into windows, started working when my laptop made a funny noise, like a whoosh kinda noise, n thn my pc froze! i rebooted, but the same thing happened this time on the windows log in screen, i kept rebooting trying to make it work...until it didn't boot n now it just sits on toshiba screen before boot.
    The HD LED no longer comes on and i'm stuck on the menu. I opened up my laptop n looked at the hardrive (tho did not touch cos i didn't wanna break it!) n its not loose or anything..but now i can't make it boot, i've tried the recovery cd which i can sometimes get into tho it doesn't seem to work!
    Please can soemone tell me how to fix it, preferabley without sending it to Toshiba.

    Hi Paul,
    It sounds as if your hard drive has failed. Check in your BIOS during the initial POST to see if the drive is being correctly recognised.
    You can try to restore the hard drive from the recovery CD (just boot from the recovery CD and follow the on-screen prompts) but this will erase all of your personal data and any programs that you may have installed and return your notebook to its original condition.
    If you still have problems then I think you will need to replace the hard drive and re-install your system.
    regards,

Maybe you are looking for