On 26/11/10 09:04, Rowan Berkeley 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? > > Rowan > > > > pop the CD drive out, this is normally quite easy, might be a slider or single screw under the laptop somewhere to release it. The laptop should boot fine without it and that will tell you what is gronking. I suspect it is the CD drive seeking, and possibly a hardware problem with the drive.
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