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Hi,
I just brought home a brand new N150 from the store. It has worked fine for the last 24 hours. I was having issues with typing though, where the keyboard wasn’t registering fast gestures from the keys, so I upgraded the bios from the website.
That fixed my problem, however a new problem has occured: The computer is now “beeping” randomly. Not from the speakers, rather it is a system-style beep. Quick and chirp-like, a single beep. Prior to the beep, there is a mechanical “clicking” sound, a single click.
I hadn’t had the issue until I upgraded the bios… I didn’t have the issue right after I upgraded it though, so I’m not sure if it is related. I left the netbook in sleep mode while I went for a roller hockey game. I came back, woke it up, and suddenly the beeping began.
It’s random.. it can go 30 minutes and never happen, or it can happen 10 times in a row. It seems to happen much more frequently with the harddrive engaged in something.
Aside from the beeping though, there’s nothing really wrong with it at all. It doesn’t appear over-heated, it isn’t functioning poorly. But the beeping is a definite deal breaker. I have 12 more days to bring it back to the store, and if I can’t track down the source of the issue, I’d like to know that I should return it while I still have the chance.
Thoughts?
I’ve also confirmed that the harddrive light stays on solid when the mechanical click and beeping happens.
Oh.. While the harddrive light does stay solid for the click/beep, I went ahead and ran a few harddrive diagnostic tools… first, they all came back as a pass, there’s nothing wrong with the drive. But what’s really weird? Is that the drive was engaged the whole time, but never beeped while the tests were running, not ever, even the long tests.
Once the tests ended?
beeps came back
yes the beeps could be the head of the harddrive docking. Thus if you provide some SMART data of the hdd it would possibly show excessive cycling or something.
What OS are you using, and you may probably want to try that tool someone posted to prevent the hdd from sleeping.
Windows 7 starter is what it came with
I found my harddrive was constantly being accessed by.. something.. so I decided to uninstall the only thing on it that could be doing it, Microsoft Security Essentials
Initially it didn’t seem to help, but an hour later the problem had seemingly disappeared. I haven’t heard a beep in about two hours.. and I’ve installed a different virus scanner
but I’m not convinced it was the problem, it seems odd.
Also, even though I haven’t heard a beep, I -have- heard clicks. I have no issues with the clicks, I can make peace with the clicks. But if clicks mean the beeping is going to come back, that’s a real problem
II’ve also run several SMART diagnostic programs at this point and they are all passing without an issue..
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