Question about Dell Latitude X200 Notebook

Not booting up, HD clicks

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.

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d-diddy Aug 18, 2007

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!
d-diddy Aug 22, 2007

turns out to be an issue with a RAM chip.
Hawk-I Jan 25, 2008

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.
Anonymous Oct 30, 2008

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"
Anonymous Feb 22, 2009

Same problem to, Mine just reboots and does the same thing

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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.

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