Sony Vaio - SVF1531C5E (LOUD CLICKING NOISE)

[tajtahir]

I recently purchased the Sony Vaio Laptop and have found a loud clicking noise coming from the hard drive compartment however I am not entirely sure where the sound is coming from.

Another person has uploaded the same issue.

Please can a Sony MOD sort this issue out or I will have to return it.

[Challis1991]

If its comstantly clicking as in the moment you switch it on to the moment you switch it off, its likely to be a dodgy hard drive. However, there is an audiable beep that Sony Vaio Flip owners get from their Hard Drive on a random basis and the beep is about four tones... if you are talking about this then i believe its the accelermoter protection on the hard drive i.e. to prevent data loss when the laptop is dropped the hard drive switches off, i believe the audiable beep happens if you pick the laptop up too quickly whilst its writing data and is letting the user know the acceleromter has been activated.

[EdJC87]

I've got the same problem with my SVE1513C5E. 8 months old and the diagnostic tool for the hard drive finds an error it is unable to fix. It can no longer load Windows (this happened ~1 month after I first noticed the clicking).