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[deadparrot]

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[OCF]

I had this problem and found out that the HD was dying, although before that I found something that may help you, depending on the make of the HD you may be able to download an acoustic managment program from the manufacturers website, this will allow you to decrease the noise when the HD is active with a small sacrifice to performance.

try googling for it

[OCF]

ATI Tool? I just googled that and its an overclocking program for gfx cards.

are you sure that was the name of the programme?

I found this samsung utility. It is a diagnostic tool for samsung drives but also allows acoustic managment.

hope it helps tell me how it goes.

btw, what kind of sound was annoying you, was it a constant whining sound or a clicking.

the whining sound cant be helped, it could suggest a dodgy drive but as far as I know the clicking is a sign of drive access which can be reduced by acoustic managment.

[RiccoNL]

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ATI Tool? I just googled that and its an overclocking program for gfx cards.

are you sure that was the name of the programme?

I found this samsung utility. It is a diagnostic tool for samsung drives but also allows acoustic managment.

hope it helps tell me how it goes.

btw, what kind of sound was annoying you, was it a constant whining sound or a clicking.

the whining sound cant be helped, it could suggest a dodgy drive but as far as I know the clicking is a sign of drive access which can be reduced by acoustic managment.

It's the clicking that's annoying.
I tried using the tool, and I managed to reduce the noise to almost zero.

But it resets when I restart my PC

Any idea's?