odd whining noise from hd

[snowcrash]

Hi All

had my h140 for a wk now, and working fine

Though on a couple of occassions when I use it for data transfer and its connected to the pc, the hd starts to make a high pitched noise while the red light is on. The player is still functioning and operates as normal; and when I disconnect or switch off/on again noise disappears & works fine. And it works fine with music playback all the time

just wondering if this is some kind glitch or something going wrong.

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[B-K]

Uh oh. Odd noises from HDs are very bad. I'd back up my music and start trying to get an RMA if I were you.

[Jonny]

Sounds normal to me. Does the sound 'power up' and then go, while it's connected to the PC?

[big_mike_aka_mike]

its just like a computer really dude! need sto speed up and slow down when sending data to/from.

wouldnt worry

[snowcrash]

Thanks for the replies so far.

Though the noise isn't the usual low level type sound the hd when it's spinning. This is more like a high pitched squealing sound which slightly varies in pitch. Only happened twice, and like I said, the unit is working perfectly. It only happened on immediate connection to the pc and continued until switched off.

It's one of those 'faults'/issues that is very rare, can't be simply reproduced. So if I did send it back, likely to say there's nothing wrong with it as it won't happen during testing.

sc

[Lewis]

The disc in my iriver always makes a really high pitched sound when it spins, although its really quiet and you can harly hear it. I thought this was normal. Ive had my iriver since may and ive had no problems with it.

[zezayer]

Its not causing a problem so no need 2 send it back. it sounds like what all of us have when using out irivers. if it stops working then iots time to send it back. You have a years warenty so no hurry!

[NPswimdude500]

its not like a beeping is it ? cuz mine kept beeping, and i just upgraded to 1.60, and it was gone