Strange noise coming from laptop

Boomax7299 · April 17, 2019

Hello,

I have an ASUS laptop that will be 4 years old in December. It has 6 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive, an Intel I5-5200U, and no dedicated graphics. I've never done anything too crazy with it, light games on low settings. For the last few days, it has been making an odd sound that I can only describe as a bit of a chirp or scrape. It sounds like it may be coming from the hard drive, but I'm not sure. It's almost like scraping a piece of metal on glass, and it lasts for less than a second and occurs randomly, sometimes it's 2 hours between times it happens, and sometimes it happens every 10 minutes. I can't identify anything specific that causes it, as it's happened when I'm sitting across the room and not touching it, too. I'm running a diagnostic harddrive software now, I'll post an update when that's done.

LukeNukem9 · April 17, 2019

Yeah make a backup relatively soon. If its the hard drive, Theres no saying when it will die.

Boomax7299 · April 17, 2019

I don't have a lot of financial flexibility to backup right now, so I'll back up the things that are a priority, like my photos and other important documents, until I can get ahold of a better backup solution.