Dell Destroyer

lilspike5g · 08-08-2008, 09:03 AM

I also have a Dell latitude D820 that came with a 100GB and it crashed... it began by making some noises and it kept giving me the notice on some occasions that no bootable devices found and then crash!!! i just replaced it with a seagate 160GB and it started making some beeping sounds, and also has started giving me the occasional no bootable device message and i'm afraid this might also crash... Someone please tell me something.

**TriggerFinger** · 08-08-2008, 09:46 AM

If you hear crackling noises then it could mean a crashed hdd. However if you hear a beeping sound (depending on the beeps that you hear) you may need to check boot sequence in BIOS settings make sure that the hard drive is on the list and is enabled.

You can also test the hard drives in another laptop. Try installing an operating system to each one and observe if they can be recognized or not.

lilspike5g · 08-11-2008, 05:20 AM

The beeps are not coming from the computer, they are coming from the hard disk and its not that loud that you can distinguish it from any other sound, it just comes while running the computer. the laptop freezes mostly when this sound starts.

**TriggerFinger** · 08-11-2008, 07:11 AM

Have you run diagnostics on the hard drive to find out if there are hardware errors?

08-08-2008, 09:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
lilspike5g Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 7 OS: WinVista & WinXP	Dell Destroyer I also have a Dell latitude D820 that came with a 100GB and it crashed... it began by making some noises and it kept giving me the notice on some occasions that no bootable devices found and then crash!!! i just replaced it with a seagate 160GB and it started making some beeping sounds, and also has started giving me the occasional no bootable device message and i'm afraid this might also crash... Someone please tell me something.

08-08-2008, 09:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,784 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Dell Destroyer If you hear crackling noises then it could mean a crashed hdd. However if you hear a beeping sound (depending on the beeps that you hear) you may need to check boot sequence in BIOS settings make sure that the hard drive is on the list and is enabled. You can also test the hard drives in another laptop. Try installing an operating system to each one and observe if they can be recognized or not. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

08-11-2008, 05:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
lilspike5g Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 7 OS: WinVista & WinXP	Re: Dell Destroyer The beeps are not coming from the computer, they are coming from the hard disk and its not that loud that you can distinguish it from any other sound, it just comes while running the computer. the laptop freezes mostly when this sound starts.

08-11-2008, 07:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,784 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Dell Destroyer Have you run diagnostics on the hard drive to find out if there are hardware errors? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE