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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Notebooks and netbooks => Topic started by: riche on September 01, 2011, 12:15:53 pm

Title: Q2005 - Strange intermittent camera shutter like sounds?
Post by: riche on September 01, 2011, 12:15:53 pm
I recently bought a Q2005 – very cute + works well.
But since day one it makes intermittent (at least every 5-10 min) fairly loud high pitched camera shutter like sounds – just once like its taking a photo – then silent till next few minutes.
Lately it seems to starting to do this sound twice every now and then(slightly different pitch for each sound).

I usually have speakers muted – so not a sound file playing.

Could be a fan striking its casing?
Although I can hear the very gentile sound of the fans as the go off and on (intelligent cooling?) – the camera shutter sound seems to be unrelated to this.

I am a bit worried as it must be hardware and can’t be normal.
My biggest fear is that it could be a faulty Hard Drive spindle sound.

Any comments on this ???  ???
Title: Re: Q2005 - Strange intermittent camera shutter like sounds?
Post by: Aussie Allan on September 01, 2011, 12:27:21 pm


  If it's new......RMA with a description of the fault.......odds on it will only get worse....this is not a feature you paid for ;)....it does sound like a Hard Drive or optical drive fault!

  Aussie Allan
Title: Re: Q2005 - Strange intermittent camera shutter like sounds?
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 01, 2011, 12:30:07 pm
If it happens every couple of minutes it should be easy to take the side of the case off and pin down where it is coming from.
Title: wow ... fast replies
Post by: riche on September 01, 2011, 12:56:05 pm
Thanks guys ....
Gonna take it in soonish - dont want to open up (yet)
I have had 2 blue screen boots so far - not great for a new system.
Getting way too attached to the little thing - gonna have to backup a lot of stuff I done on it already :P

Anyone else - maybe have a similer problem / sound ...
Title: Re: Q2005 - Strange intermittent camera shutter like sounds?
Post by: Aussie Allan on September 01, 2011, 01:41:09 pm
If it happens every couple of minutes it should be easy to take the side of the case off and pin down where it is coming from.

  Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! it's a laptop DM...... very,very tinny side cover  ;D 

  Riche.......BSOD as well.....Harddrive me thinks!
Title: Re: Q2005 - Strange intermittent camera shutter like sounds?
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 01, 2011, 02:39:16 pm
Well some people do say the most stupid things! If only they would read the whole post first. :-[  Sorry!

Never mind the idea is all the same anyway and it shouldn't be hard to track down the offending area.