beeping sata2 hd

[mok86]

my less than one month old seagate 300gb sata2 ncq drive has just started beeping today :\ and now it wont show when it boots up :\ how does an RMA work? do i pay for shipping both ways?


actually i have no idea wats wrong.i've read that it could be mobo issues or power supply issues? any help would be appreciated....the other hd (same kind of drive) works exactly the same i;ve tried switching the cables etc and nothing works

[cwb27]

Err, Hard Drives don't beep (or at least none that I'm aware of) Don't jumpt the gun on this one.

Pull out the motherboard manual and find the section on beep codes, then match that up with what you're hearing. Have you moved/bumped your case at all between when there was no beeping and when the beeping started?

[mok86]

lol its definately my hd the seagate drive beeping....lol its not coming from the mobo

[cwb27]

I don't mean to question you, but if you pull the power off the drive and fire up the computer I assume there is no beeping?

[mok86]

haha yea the beeping stops...first time i've ever had a beeping hd....lol googling tells me some seagate drives do have this issue..but noone ever reaches a resolve lol

[mok86]

argh wtf it costs 13 dollars to ship this hobo back to them...should of just bought locally

[willy]

Do you have another computer(s) to test ?

[hp]

argh wtf it costs 13 dollars to ship this hobo back to them...should of just bought locally

It still maybe faster to send it to seagate than to do an RMA from your local store.

Have you tried the seagate diagnostic tools? This may shed some lights as to what is wrong with it.

hp

[mok86]

well the thing is it doesnt even show up in the bios...i dont think the seagate tool would work..and i'm pretty sure its not my mobo because i can plug in my other sata drive nad it works fine

[hp]

seagate tool is a selfbooting dos based tool for you to do various hard disk tests.

Give it a go and see what happens, I am not sure, but some manufacturer requires you to run this before they will issue and RMA #.

hp

[mok86]

all right i'll give it a try i'll keep u posted

[mok86]

ok the drive doesnt even show up in the tests it just keeps beeping

[Nubee]

There might be a problem with the harddrive but it definitely is not the one beeping. There is no physical ( mini ) speaker on the drive like those from the motherboard for the sound to be produced. Disconneting the power on the drive only proves there is problem with the drive rather than the drive stopped beeping. May I suggest updating the mobo's bios before proceeding with the RMA?

Anyway, I'm not familiar with seagate's method concerning rma but if they have the same policy as maxtor, you could request the replacement drive in advance then you could just use the packaging to send your drive in. If my memory serves me correctly, maxtor even paid for the s/h for the return of the drive.

[hp]

sounds really strange, post your system specs, including the Power Supply and the case.

Maybe it's inteferring with the speaker from your case and hence causing the problems.

Also, in bios, some of them require you to turn the SATA device on manually. Check it to see if that is the case. (It won't detect the HD if you don't have it turned on)

hp

[mok86]

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its definately the harddrive beeping cause i've removed the cage that holds hte hds and its away from my mobo and i can definately hear the beeping coming from it

everything has been set to auto in the bios
updated bios same problem :\

[mok86]

alright ncix decided to do an RMA for it, how do i send it back? should i jsut tape up the box they sent the hds to me in? and then tape the information on top of that?

[computer01]

Hard drives don't beep, but they can make a mechanical noise which sounds exactly like a beep.

Other people have reported dead Seagates doing this. I recall many years ago with the first generation of Quantum Bigfoot drives... you know... the 5¼" drives that had over a 50% failure rate within the first year. These drives were notorious for failure and would make a very distinct beeping sound when they were dead.