Clicking noise from inside my VGX-XL201

[ChalkyWhite71]

Hi, stupid me only investigating this issue out of warranty (by three weeks!) 😞

For sometime now*, my XL201 has been making tick noises (like a really noisy clock tick) every now and then. I now find it is distracting and much more frequent, every 5 seconds or so.

It appears to coincide with disc activity and eminate from front-left of chassis (i haven't opened box yet), so i ran the disc surface scans within System Tools which revealed no bad sectors on either C or D partitions.

I wonder whether it's the noise of the harddisk head parking, so my HD may be on it's way out??

Anyone else suffer from this?

Cheers

* i think it's done it since new, but very irregular back then.

[ChalkyWhite71]

Thanks IT Troll, i tried this but as the drive is part of an OEM machine this option does not work. I'm getting it sorted anyhow, so no worries.

[Thalamus.]

I'm getting it sorted anyhow, so no worries

hope all goes well..

[ChalkyWhite71]

Got my 201 back from Sony on Friday and all looks/sounds v good so far. They provided a superb service, the machine went to France by DHL and Dean in Ireland kept me posted very frequently as to its progress.

I received a machine back with replaced harddrive, and although i've had to remove Norton and get it all service-packed etc, the hdd seems to be making normal sounds now.

Cheers Sony!