Hi, tom's guide community. I have bought the laptop from the title a couple of days ago. I meant to use it for a lot of things from uni work to gaming. So I took the liberty to download a game (TES5:Skyrim), and modded it a lot. By my laptop's configuration it should have been no problem and it automatically set my preferences to Ultra High.
So I played the game and it froze at one point, it was probably way too much for it to handle. I couldn't do anything, ctrl + alt + del didn't work and it was unresponsive except for a looped sound effect. I also heard it getting louder so I plugged it out of the power outlet.
Here's the problem. I booted it again and I noticed that the laptop is slightly louder (it worked completely noiseless before, couldn't even notice that it's turned on), and there's a faint clicking sound coming out of it. Like a clock and it doesn't seem to go away. It still ran at top efficiency, but the noise is pretty unsettling for me, given that I had only bought it three days ago.
I did a chkdsk /r through cmd prompt and I restarted it now it says "Checking and Repairing Drive 12%" and it's stuck at 12%.
I searched through forums and I couldn't come across anything relevant, except for people saying that the HDD is totaled.
Can somebody provide any useful info? Did I mess up, or is it nothing to worry about?
Also, if it IS true, can a hard drive be replaced, or have I ruined my new laptop?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: The chkdsk finished and showed no messages. It's kind quiet again but the clicking sound is there when I lean my ear on the keyboard.
So I played the game and it froze at one point, it was probably way too much for it to handle. I couldn't do anything, ctrl + alt + del didn't work and it was unresponsive except for a looped sound effect. I also heard it getting louder so I plugged it out of the power outlet.
Here's the problem. I booted it again and I noticed that the laptop is slightly louder (it worked completely noiseless before, couldn't even notice that it's turned on), and there's a faint clicking sound coming out of it. Like a clock and it doesn't seem to go away. It still ran at top efficiency, but the noise is pretty unsettling for me, given that I had only bought it three days ago.
I did a chkdsk /r through cmd prompt and I restarted it now it says "Checking and Repairing Drive 12%" and it's stuck at 12%.
I searched through forums and I couldn't come across anything relevant, except for people saying that the HDD is totaled.
Can somebody provide any useful info? Did I mess up, or is it nothing to worry about?
Also, if it IS true, can a hard drive be replaced, or have I ruined my new laptop?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: The chkdsk finished and showed no messages. It's kind quiet again but the clicking sound is there when I lean my ear on the keyboard.
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