On 26 November 2010 09:04, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Every time I start my laptop, it goes "gronk... gronk, gronk, gronk... > gronk, gronk, gronk," and flashes the light on the CD drive a few times. > I thought this might be because I had set it to attempt to load from CD > first in the BIOS boot order, when I installed 10.04 from Live CD, so I > changed it back to load from hard drive first, but it still does it. Is > the gronking noise coming from the CD drive, or the hard drive? If the > latter, does this mean that the default installation from the Live CD > actually deposits the operating system in various different places on > the hard drive, so that the drive head has to gronk backwards and > forwards to find it all?
Does this happen before the BIOS startup stuff appears on screen? If so then it is nothing to do with the OS as the BIOS has not got as far as reading anything off disc yet. It may be the CD drive initialising itself, perhaps it is on the way out if it did not do this previously. Similarly the hard disc will likely tick or chatter a couple of times as it initialises, if it is the hard disc that is gronking however then I would make sure all your backups are up to date as an extreme priority. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
