HDD noise after Bios Flash

[jaslr]

My machine is a P4 2.4, 512RAM, Gigabyte GA-8SR533 M/B and I have a Seagate Barracuda (st340016a) and it's been perfect.

I just flashed my Bios so it's up to date and now I get this high pitch grind noise intermittidly from it. I know it's the HDD cause I put my ear next to it while it happened 3 times in about 5 minutes.

Their website and their manual has nothing? What could Flashing the Bios do to the HDD?

 

[elzt]

Flashing the BIOS will usually reset its contents to default values. It's a good idea to check and re-configure BIOS settings after the update.

 

[jaslr]

yeah I did do that, but what setting would control the speed of the HDD. I really can't see how it's related to it at all. It's just all too weird for me.

 

[Teq]

Are you sure you got a good flash?

It may have misconfigured the IDE controllers.

It may also be simply a coincedence that the drive start this up --or you first noticed it-- when you were working on the machine.


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[jaslr]

yeah I used Gigabytes @bios program where it does it for you...

is it safe (and how can you?) to do a rollback on the bios?

 

[jaslr]

even though no one has replied. I fixed the problem by rolling back the m/b flash driver... easily enough. weird however. should I be telling gigabyte about this?

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Definately strange, a bios flash shouldnt effect the hard drive directly.
Unless its somehow treating the drive differently or has enabled something like the accoustic managment (unlikely)

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