Hey all, new to the forum. I found the place after searching for my problem on google. I'm eperienced with forums (SXRguyinMA on just new to this one
So heres the (maybe) problem. I purchased a Seagate 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G back in August of 07 as a addition to an old/flled drive I had. I kept windows on the old 40GB and moved all my pcs/music/videos etc to the 500GB. For christmas my finace bought me a WD 400GB SATA drive and 2GB more DDR2
Well since I got the SEagate, when I shut the computer down at night the HD will "buzz" or "whine" for a sec or two (after the comp actually shuts off) and will start relativley low pitched and get progressively higher then stop. Also, when I'm defragging that particular HD, it chirps occasionally. The 400GB WD holds XP and everything and is the main drive, most of my vids/pics/music etc. are on the 500. No read/write errors reported from either Norton or Diskeeper. No issues, just the occasional chirp and the whine at shutdown.
I've heard the chirping being the head unit resting for power saving purposes, and people disabling that in their Macs. Is this possible in XP? Anyone known/heard of similar issues? I'd really appreciate any help, the noise is just annoying
