Purchased this Alienware M14x r2 in summer 2012, the mechanical movement/noise normally occurs only once when I started the computer. But it recently makes noise every 2 mins when I play games or do other stuffs, and it is very annoying.
Note: I heard win 10 was good for gaming so I recently installed win 10, I think the issue is related to Win 10. But I'm not sure which hardware is making such noise, doesn't sound like DVD, maybe it's Sound Blaster? Anyone knows?
You can hear the mechanical movement noise in 1:38, 3:38 and 5:38.
https://soundcloud.com/user459602809/alienware-m14x-r2-strange-mechanical-movementnoise
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Hard drive or CPU fan, but I'm leaning more towards hard drive. Have you gone inside your laptop before?
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Thanks, Game7a1, the problem is related to Windows 10 and Sound Blaster. Sound Blaster won't make such noise in Windows 7/8, but it does noise in windows 10 if the Sound Blaster driver is not installed. So just install Creative Labs CT9570 Audio Driver in win 10, and it should be fine.
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Sound Blaster is just an audio driver, but that noise sounds like "start-up / waking up". Not sure why an awake computer, or specifically the speakers, would make that noise, though.
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I'm not sure, either. It could because the hardware related to Sound Blaster wants to "warm up" when the power is on, so that's how the mechanical noise was made. While Win 10's default audio driver was not compatible with Sound Blaster, so Sound Blaster didn't work properly, and then Sound Blaster rebooted, warmed up, and made noise.
Also, Win 10-build 10130 didn't detect my Intel HD 4000 video card. So I had to install it manually, if Intel HD 4000 can't work properly, then GT 650m won't work properly.
Am I the only one who installed Win 10 and had trouble? -
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It looks like there are lots of audio/speaker problems related to M14x R2.
English not my first language.
Alienware M14x R2's Mechanical Movement Every 2 minutes
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by zeerp, Jun 4, 2015.