Post by: robo989 on November 27, 2008, 09:11:00 PM
Last week I bought a 120GB WD Scorpio BEVS UST0 drive and followed the hacking guide with no problems to make it an "official" 360 hard drive. The I copied all my exisiting data to it and profiles and so on. Put it in the Xbox 360 and for some reason I keep hearing this "clicking" noise when I do nearly anything on the dash that access the hard drive.
It sounds more like a "tic" that a click to be honest. It's definately NOT normal accessing of the hard drive, because when I actually do access it properly for example when installing a game to it, its completely silent. I wouldn't mind so much but this "tic" noise can be heard every 20-30 seconds when watching a video from my NAS...Why the 360 is even accessing the hard drive during this is beyond me... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/uhh.gif)
It sound a little bit like the drive might be going in and out of some low power mode like the drive heads are being parked after each read or something?
I thought it might be a dodgy drive, but I ordered another one from a different retailer - again a UST0 and again - EXACTLY the same behaviour....
Surely this isn't normal?
Is there maybe some power management software I could load in DOS on my computer to change a setting in firmware like a lot of drives have maybe?
Am I doing something wrong?
Does anyone else have this "problem"...
I can't believe that anyone would be able to tolerate this in all honesty.....
Many thanks for any help\guidance with this.
Post by: mrwhipper on November 27, 2008, 08:51:00 PM
Post by: robo989 on November 27, 2008, 09:09:00 PM
I've done some googling and found that WD offer a utility that can disable "parking" of its drives.
However, I'm not sure if it will actually have any effect since the hddhackr tool used to make the drive 360 compatable overwrites some firmware code with a Fujistu serial\code...
Anyone got any ideas....?
Thanks,
Post by: Vauxfan on November 28, 2008, 02:43:00 PM
Got a 3 year warranty with mine so no worries
Post by: Vauxfan on November 29, 2008, 03:10:00 PM
Post by: tekdelorean on December 04, 2008, 06:09:00 AM
I tried setting it to the max setting (255) and it restarts the 360 every 10 seconds...
Anyone have any ideas? I spent all yesterday trying to figure this out it's pissing me off...
Post by: Haruk on December 06, 2008, 04:35:00 PM
what i did was just unplug all my hard drives and use my VIA card i used to flash xbox drives in order to do it, and it worked fine
hope this helps
Post by: Vauxfan on December 06, 2008, 05:27:00 PM
Post by: Haruk on December 06, 2008, 06:00:00 PM
QUOTE(robo989 @ Dec 6 2008, 08:26 PM) 
I can only make sure, are you definately booting into pure DOS mode (booting from a floppy\USB drive). It sounds like what you peeps are experiencing might happen if you try to get the thing done in windows?
My only other suggestion, would be to have a play about in the bios of your computer, make sure you ONLY have the bevs drive plugged in and set your sata to "comptibility mode"....or equivalent in the bios...
Other than that, can't really help sorry. I guess its a hardware compatbility thing and you just gotta hunt down the right setting to get it to work properly with the utility.
Google might be able to help you out?
nah, it's definitely a problem that happened in DOS, i dont think you can even run it inside windows if you have that problem try doing what i stated above it worked for me
Post by: tekdelorean on December 07, 2008, 09:06:00 AM
FINALLY this noise was driving me crazy
Connected the HDD directly to my laptop (HP PAVILION DV6000)
booted to dos from a usb drive and ran wdidle3 /d
WORKED!
I love you guys thanks VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111one one
Vauxfan Thank you for your suggestion!
Post by: CHR1ZS on December 14, 2008, 08:45:00 AM
I did the firmware upgrade no problem just connecting to my onboard sata port which uses the via vt8237 chipset. I originaaly used my iprep flash drive to try and run wdidle3 seeing as it worked for the firmware flash, but after a couple of tries running wdidle3 /d and just being told idle 3 timer is enabled and set to 6300 milliseconds I then decided to get an old floppy drive and connect that up to my mobo, I then made a dos 6.22 boot disc and tried again but still the same, it just won't let me disable it.
The wdidle3 file I am using is 160kb file is that the correct file? or any suggestions?
Post by: Vauxfan on December 14, 2008, 10:41:00 AM
QUOTE(CHR1ZS @ Dec 14 2008, 06:21 PM)
I don't know if anyone can help as most of you seem to have got round the problem but I just can't get wdidle3 to work.
I did the firmware upgrade no problem just connecting to my onboard sata port which uses the via vt8237 chipset. I originaaly used my iprep flash drive to try and run wdidle3 seeing as it worked for the firmware flash, but after a couple of tries running wdidle3 /d and just being told idle 3 timer is enabled and set to 6300 milliseconds I then decided to get an old floppy drive and connect that up to my mobo, I then made a dos 6.22 boot disc and tried again but still the same, it just won't let me disable it.
The wdidle3 file I am using is 160kb file is that the correct file? or any suggestions?
I did the firmware upgrade no problem just connecting to my onboard sata port which uses the via vt8237 chipset. I originaaly used my iprep flash drive to try and run wdidle3 seeing as it worked for the firmware flash, but after a couple of tries running wdidle3 /d and just being told idle 3 timer is enabled and set to 6300 milliseconds I then decided to get an old floppy drive and connect that up to my mobo, I then made a dos 6.22 boot disc and tried again but still the same, it just won't let me disable it.
The wdidle3 file I am using is 160kb file is that the correct file? or any suggestions?
Try disconnecting all other hard/optical drives in the system.
Post by: calloused labia on December 14, 2008, 06:18:00 PM
QUOTE(CHR1ZS @ Dec 14 2008, 02:05 PM)
thanks for the quick reply, I have tried it with just the xbox hd and the floppy drive connected but still the same.
It is a frustrting problem as the computer can see the drive wdidle3 can see the drive it just won't disable it.
Any help appreciated.
It is a frustrting problem as the computer can see the drive wdidle3 can see the drive it just won't disable it.
Any help appreciated.
EDIT
I just read your other posts.. I see you are using the VIA onboard. I had the same problem you did when I used a 6412 card. I connected the drive to my onboard SATA ICH7 and it worked fine.
Post by: tekdelorean on December 14, 2008, 11:46:00 PM
QUOTE(CHR1ZS @ Dec 14 2008, 02:05 PM)
thanks for the quick reply, I have tried it with just the xbox hd and the floppy drive connected but still the same.
It is a frustrting problem as the computer can see the drive wdidle3 can see the drive it just won't disable it.
Any help appreciated.
It is a frustrting problem as the computer can see the drive wdidle3 can see the drive it just won't disable it.
Any help appreciated.
Try another sata card, my VIA was able to flash it and was able to "detect" the idle setting timer 6300 but wasn't able to change it. I had to connect the HDD to my internal laptop sata port to get it to work.
Try doing it on another system, or another card
Post by: CHR1ZS on December 15, 2008, 11:49:00 AM
on the positive side I actually haven't had a problem with it clicking, I don't know if anyone else ran it in there 360 without doing wdidle3 fix but the way the original poster robo989 described it, it sounded terrible where as I can't hear any excessive clicking especailly above the 360 fan noise.
so may different bev drives don't have the same problem, mine is the bevs-75LAT0 where as robo989 had the bevs UST0.
either way it won't work my chipset so I think I will leave it now over christmas and see how it goes
thanks again for all the quick replies.
Post by: robo989 on December 16, 2008, 10:48:00 AM
QUOTE(CHR1ZS @ Dec 15 2008, 09:25 PM)
thanks for all the info guys. I think I will have to take it to a mates house and give it a try, it must not like my via chipset.
on the positive side I actually haven't had a problem with it clicking, I don't know if anyone else ran it in there 360 without doing wdidle3 fix but the way the original poster robo989 described it, it sounded terrible where as I can't hear any excessive clicking especailly above the 360 fan noise.
so may different bev drives don't have the same problem, mine is the bevs-75LAT0 where as robo989 had the bevs UST0.
either way it won't work my chipset so I think I will leave it now over christmas and see how it goes
thanks again for all the quick replies.
Hi mate, yes thats correct.
I did purchase a further drive which was a UST22 I think and that had the same behaviour of "clicking" every 10-20 seconds. It *could* just be a feature of the UST drives not getting on well with the 360 and incorrectly parking itself.
The drives definately aren't faulty though as running the wdidle3 utility got rid of the clicking.
If you haven't noticed the "issue" then I would say that there is no problem with your drive and you don't need to run the utility. You would definately notice it if it was clicking, no doubt about it. fans\dvd noise or otherwise, at least with the 2 UST drives I tried.
Post by: topo80 on December 28, 2008, 06:46:00 PM
QUOTE(robo989 @ Nov 29 2008, 12:30 AM)
I FIXED IT!!!!
It will FIX yours too....
1. Search google for a DOS utility called "wdidle3.exe"...
2. Create a bootable disk\usb\cd etc with the program on and your 120GB drive connected also...
3. Type "wdidle3 /d"
SORTED!!!!!
This will disable its "intellipark" feature. If you just type "wdidle3" in my case it was set to 8000ms (8 seconds of inactivity before "parking" the heads)
Its a completely pointless feature and will reduce the lifespan of your drive.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO FLASH BACK TO THE ORIGINAL FIRMWARE TO USE IT - IT WORKS FINE WITH THE FUJITSU SECURITY SECTOR...
Plonk it bank in your 360 and enjoy the bliss of pure silence....
Now someone give a me a bloody gold star and make this a STICKY!
I can't believe you people with hacked 120GB drives are putting up with this annoying ticking, now only that but there is ZERO info on this issue on google at all!!!!!
....
I have heard my drive click from time to time. My problem is another though. When i press the (X) button to access dashboard menus and/or send messages etc etc, the xbox freezes for a few seconds, and then continues to go back to normal. Could this be that the drive is set to spin down/power save after a set time? I'm going to try this tomorrow and see what the results are, hopefully this will help other ppl that might have the same problem after upgrading to a 120gb.
Thanks for the wdidle solution
Post by: topo80 on December 30, 2008, 01:11:00 AM
QUOTE(topo80 @ Dec 29 2008, 03:22 AM)
I have heard my drive click from time to time. My problem is another though. When i press the (X) button to access dashboard menus and/or send messages etc etc, the xbox freezes for a few seconds, and then continues to go back to normal. Could this be that the drive is set to spin down/power save after a set time? I'm going to try this tomorrow and see what the results are, hopefully this will help other ppl that might have the same problem after upgrading to a 120gb.
Thanks for the wdidle solution
Didn't help against the freezing part.
Post by: herewego on December 30, 2008, 04:20:00 PM