Hi, last week I bought brand new Dell Inspiron 15R 5537. It has ST1000LM024 HDD. Everything seems to work fine, except one thing.
Yesterday, I installed Assassins Creed 4. When I launched the game I noticed something suspicious. There was mysterious scratching noise coming from beneath keyboard (approximately the middle). It’s not very loud noise, but can be heard from some distance. I suspect it’s problem with HDD (correct me if I’m wrong).
That “scratching noise is not noticeable while PC is on idle, example desktop or net…
I used Dell diagnostics, however no problem or error was found.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBHGAU0o1gw
This video shows what I’m talking about :) Turn up your speakers a bit..
From 0:00 to 0:06. Ignore those noises, that’s just my hands and camera :)
From 0:06 to 0:11. Laptop is on idle. Some scratching can be heard if you put your ear close to the laptop. I ignore those noises.
From 0:23 I start the game, and immediately those “noises” starts to be louder, even though camera is about 10cm above keyboard.
At 0:26 you can hear close up sound.
And at 0:44 noises reach its highest level, while game is loading, and after loading.
At 1:27 I switch the game off and noises disappear immediately.
Looking forward for Your opinion. Maybe it’s not HDD, maybe it’s something else?