Comments on: My laptop started making a loud grinding noise

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:46:12 +0000

I got an hp dvt6qe yesterday and opened it up. the graphics and sound is amazing so its good. but it keeps making a weird grinding sound. the laptop is brand new and has 800g disc and has an i7 quad core processor and an 8g ram. The grinding sound doesn’t occur when I am tilting the screen back and forth and it doesn’t occur when I place the laptop (keyboard, memory, cpu part) almost vertically with the screen flat on the ground
Can someone tell me why this is happening? I am going to transfer files to a recovery disc within the next 2 weeks.

By: brian says

brian says — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:41:04 +0000

you should be looking for a new hard drive that sound means it on it way out trust me i know had many do that to me i always had to get a new hard drive like one time i bought a brand new computer and the hard drive was no good just happens and sometime if you have it next to any magnetic energy it will make them no good either make sure you dont put it near your microwave when it on either thats all i can say,

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:29:35 +0000

@ Sarah,

My computer today started to make a loud noise that starts off quiet and then slowly gets louder then the blue screen of death appeared.

This could be failing hard drive. Back up your personal data ASAP.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:37:06 +0000

Hi. i am computer illiterate so please just bare with me. My computer today started to make a loud noise that starts off quiet and then slowly gets louder then the blue screen of death appeared. After that I turned off the computer, logged back on and then my computer just showed me a black screen but I could still see the white arrow on the screen. Now keep in mind, like the original post, my computer is 4 year old and has been sent in for several repairs. One of the repairs just like a year or so ago was a brand new hard drive so I dont think that is the problem but yeah. Another weird thing that happens now is that right before all this went crazy, i tried to listen to Pandora but the sound wasn’t coming out of my speakers and when I plugged in my headphones, it sounded like the sound was heavily muffled. after about an hour of turning on the computer, checking the “repair feature”, and turning it on using safe mode, it finally started up again. Now it is acting normal but I am just worried that it will start again. Do you have any idea what is going wrong? I am seriously freaking out because I have two exams tomorrow and I need this laptop!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:25:58 +0000

when I go watch videos my laptop makes a disoriented noise threw the whole video and keeps doing this I have a HP netbook and its new. I use it almost everyday so is it overheated or what PLEASE HELP!!

By: keerti

keerti — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:30:33 +0000

Fan noisy sounds — when u open a game or high end softwares u get this noise.actually the fan running faster than normal.try to check when do this fan sounds hign and try to stop such games or high end applications.or back up the system data and store in external HD.so that u wont affected badly.If u continue this your system may crash.

By: Kailee

Kailee — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:59:35 +0000

My Sony Vaio VGN-CS215J has been making a very loud grinind noise, it doesnt freeze or do anything else its just a very loud and annoying grinding thats so loud you cant even watch tv with my laptop on. Is this my hard drive or my fan, ive taken the laptop apart and looked at the fan and it turned fine cleaned it and it still makes the noise. What do i do?

By: jade

jade — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:42:36 +0000

hii i recently got a new laptop a few weeks back its brand new from pc world it was fine but I’ve just turned it on and it started making really high pitched noises and like a tickin noise it was also really slow and didnt load after the welcome sign i shut it down and rebooted and it did exactly the same whats wrong with it?? i havent had a blue screen it a acer 5551 series

By: Waylin Kor

Waylin Kor — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:13:46 +0000

ANSWERS!

First of all all hard drives should be backed up continuously, the best way to do that is just buy an external hard drive and back it up from time to time. If you have a desktop you should have some level of RAID implemented, any time you hear that grinding noise, it’s something called DISK THRASHING, it means your computer doesn’t have enough RAM and it’s trying to access the hard drive directly, but your hard drive isn’t fast enough to keep up and operate as ram hence the grinding noise you hear. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, hard drives are designed to put up with that a little, but it’s not a good thing. So first of all, back up your hard drive regularly, the only thing valuable on any computer is the information you have stored on it. Secondly, get more RAM, make sure your motherboard can support it, than buy the highest speed RAM you possibly can for your computer, the more RAM the better.

By: mervin

mervin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:10:45 +0000

my laptop is making a noise i cant really discribe but its coming from the top right and it is right after i played dota and i don’t know how to fix it it is a continues beeps but sometimes i can hear the music from the programe when i pluged in my ear peice i can hear the music but no noise from the ear peice but i can hear it on the out side from the right top corner what should i do? help!!