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Amilo Pa1510 & Mechanical "Clank"

Postby rares » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:10 am

Hi,

Recently I've bought a Amilo Pa1510 and it has a "little" problem. From time to time I hear a mechanical "clank". This mechanical clank seems to be related with my HDD (i presume). This is something to worry about or not?

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Postby aspettl » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:49 pm

Do you know the manufacturer and the exact model of your harddisk?

Some users of the M3438 complained about something similar - they have Seagate drives. According to Seagate it is normal and no problem. There was also a technical reason, but I don't know it anymore...

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Postby rares » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:07 am

WDC WD1200BEVS-07LAT0

It's a WD :)
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Postby aspettl » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:00 pm

You could try a harddisk diagnostic tool or read the SMART (error) values.

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Postby rares » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:07 am

ALL SMART VALUES ARE NORMAL/OK. And I found something very interesting... when hdd is no longer used (no hdd loadings), the clank noise appear. I think is nothing wrong, maybe the hdd is parking the heads or something, or just enters in deep sleep mode to conserve energy (i hope).

PS: I need a service manual for my laptop, could you help me? And one more: i want to overclock my processor and my graphic core. Is that possible? Is there a tweaked/pro version of my BIOS?

oh, joy ;)
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Postby aspettl » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:59 am

rares wrote:ALL SMART VALUES ARE NORMAL/OK. And I found something very interesting... when hdd is no longer used (no hdd loadings), the clank noise appear. I think is nothing wrong, maybe the hdd is parking the heads or something, or just enters in deep sleep mode to conserve energy (i hope).

Yes, I think so, too.

rares wrote:PS: I need a service manual for my laptop, could you help me?

Maybe the OEM has one on his homepage, probably it's an Uniwill.

rares wrote:And one more: i want to overclock my processor and my graphic core. Is that possible? Is there a tweaked/pro version of my BIOS?

Graphics core: should work with tools in Windows.

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Postby olujnik » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:41 pm

what is youre expiriance with Pa 1510
I intend to by one for chrismas
any comments you have
thanks :shock:
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