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Internal hard drive making beeping noise, laptop won't start up, when diagnostics are run, error code of 2000-0146 is shown
Hi,
I am using a Dell Inspiron 1440 laptop. A few days ago, I noticed that my laptop has become incredibly slow (the system will hang sometimes, and continue as per normal after a while), and this coincided with my laptop beginning to make this weird, sharp beeping sound. At first I did not pay much attention to it, but later this was joined by several BSODs, and my laptop became even slower (games that usually did not lag was now hanging halfway through, and continuing as per normal after a lengthy period of 1 minute or so). I tried to find the origin of the noise, and I think it came from my Internal hard drive sector, and thus decided to open the sector up (in hindsight I probably should not have). After I replaced it, without doing much (just doing the usual IT-amateur stuff, wiping it and blowing it a few times), my situation has now worsened to the point that startup takes a much longer time, and finally now it hangs at the "Starting Windows" screen, but without the Windows 7 logo showing, and my screen later turns black. Any help is appreciated.
(P.S. the beeping seems random to me, it is long and continuous when its there, like the whizzing sound of the cooling fan, but for this it's a beeping/buzzing sound from the hard drive sector.)
I am using a Dell Inspiron 1440 laptop. A few days ago, I noticed that my laptop has become incredibly slow (the system will hang sometimes, and continue as per normal after a while), and this coincided with my laptop beginning to make this weird, sharp beeping sound. At first I did not pay much attention to it, but later this was joined by several BSODs, and my laptop became even slower (games that usually did not lag was now hanging halfway through, and continuing as per normal after a lengthy period of 1 minute or so). I tried to find the origin of the noise, and I think it came from my Internal hard drive sector, and thus decided to open the sector up (in hindsight I probably should not have). After I replaced it, without doing much (just doing the usual IT-amateur stuff, wiping it and blowing it a few times), my situation has now worsened to the point that startup takes a much longer time, and finally now it hangs at the "Starting Windows" screen, but without the Windows 7 logo showing, and my screen later turns black. Any help is appreciated.
(P.S. the beeping seems random to me, it is long and continuous when its there, like the whizzing sound of the cooling fan, but for this it's a beeping/buzzing sound from the hard drive sector.)
arusha
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December 14th, 2012 22:00
You have the perfect opportunity for the #1 upgrade bar none. Mechanical hard drives are an outdated relic and an SSD drive will deliver an enormous increase in performance and reliability. Wide adoption has been held back by cost but prices are dropping fast. The average user needs a minimum of 256GB and if your computer is a 2011 model or older there are lower-cost SSD drives to match them.
yejohn
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December 14th, 2012 23:00
so you are saying there is no fix for my current problem, other than to replace my hard drive?
ejn63
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December 15th, 2012 04:00
You can confirm that the hard drive has failed with the Dell diagnostics (F12 at powerup), but it sounds all but certain the drive is toast.