My baby is sick =*(
Got one of these 3 weeks or so ago....
eMachine M6809
Today, after a splendid game of City of Heroes, I turned off the laptop, and brought it upstairs. Plugged it in, turned it on.
After talking on AIM for awhile, i heard this horrible cachunk cachunk sound come from something located to the left of the touchpad. After it stopped, pretty much everything on my desktop froze except my mouse, then everything 'sped up' a few moments later. This continued at random intervals for two hours, when i finally decided to turn it off. It took a good 5 minutes to turn off, cachunking all the way. I let it sit for a moment, then turned it back on. Loud clicking. At the end of the post-screens, before the windows XP screen came up, it hung for a good 3 minutes. After being at the loading screen for five seconds, it flashed a BSOD and rebooted itself, and then proceeded to chain-reboot several times (I let this go on, trying to see what the BSOD said, finally gave up and held down the power button to turn it off)
I waited twenty minutes, then turned it back on, and it started up like a champ, and its currently working fine with n cachunking (Past 30 minutes) I haven't tried any games or video editing yet. I'm worried I may have inadvertently broke something....I've handled my baby with the utmost care, but I have carried it with me alot (Train rides, a cruise a week ago)
Any idea what this could be, and do I need to look into getting it repaired?
Note: This was most definatly *not* random hard drive access sounds. I also had Norton defrag my drive about 4 days ago, and ran spybot today. I'm using Omegas 4.5 drivers for the 9600.
Horrid, horrid clicky-cachunk sound...
