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   From: noone@nowhere.noway.con   
      
   On 13/05/2012 14:30, poachedeggs wrote:   
   > I've bought a 2001 Thinkpad and fitted a healthy newer 20gb hard   
   > drive. The activity I hear is fairly constant but isn't the click of   
   > death. It didn't occur while running Linux so I'm thinking it may be   
   > related to a Service I don't necessarily need, or the swap file maybe.   
   > It has a regular rhythm at clock seconds speed:   
   >   
   > tick, tick, tick, tickticktick, tick, tick, tick, tickticktick, tick,   
   > tick, tick, tickticktick   
   >   
   > I did try one boot with the swap file switched off but there was no   
   > change - I'd thought maybe it was writing to the hard drive more often   
   > that it would if it wasn't a 900mhz/512mb (maxed) machine.   
   >   
   > I've used online guides to turn off all non-essential services,   
   > selected the Windows Classic theme and switched off some other   
   > effects. It's not Firefox memory leak at work either as I've just put   
   > Chrome on with the identical tick.   
   >   
   > It's otherwise great and preferable for me to new, gaudy and cheap   
   > looking laptops but ideally I'd get rid of this tick.   
   >   
   > Thanks.   
      
   Make sure indexing is turned off, disable autoplay on your optical   
   drive (to see if that is the cause, eject the tray and leave it   
   open - if the ticking stops, you are done.)   
      
   If all else fails, use Process Monitor (note:different to Process   
   Explorer)   
   --   
   Rob   
      
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