I have my Dell Latitude X200 sitting here. It worked fine the other day, but when I tried to boot it up today, I hit the power button, lights flash like normal, and that's it. All I hear is the HD doing a repetitive clicking noise, but there is no screen that comes up at all. No matter how many times I try, docked, undocked, powercord plugged in and unplugged, I get the same result. If it means me HD is dead, do I have to disassemble the entire thing to get at it? Thanks in advance, it really is appreciated.
You have what is called the "click of death". Your hard drive has failed and it's almost impossible to repair the drive to a working condition again. The drive should be located on the underbelly of the laptop. You'll need a small philips head screwdriver to remove the faceplate that holds it in. Once removed you can simply purchase a replacement drive and then reload windows from either the recovery disc that came with the system or regular windows disc.
Posted on Aug 18, 2007
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Hooray! Click of death!
At least it's got a cool name. That's what I thought. But wouldn't the ROM screen pop up or anything to give me an option to boot off a cd? or is that just a fail safe for it to not even get to that point?
Thanks!
turns out to be an issue with a RAM chip.
does not boot to bios. two beeps, power light stays on, screen flashes faintly. with battery out I get 3 beeps. It worked fine two weeks ago. I have pulled bios battery, no help.
for a while i could get it to turn back on by repositioning it and praying and waiting. now the power light just comes on and i get irritated waiting for the clicking to stop. before that it would frequently freeze in me, and sometimes go to a screen where it would say "dumping physical memory"
Same problem to, Mine just reboots and does the same thing
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