High pitched whine coming from hard drive

adarryladarryl No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
edited July 2011 in Hardware
Just bought a new WD 500 Gb SATA hard drive. However, when it's powered up, not even formatted yet, it emits a constant high pitched whine. It's faint, but if it were louder, it would be considered ear piercing, that high pitched. So is the drive defective?

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  • adarryladarryl No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
    edited July 2011
    Check that. It isn't the hard drive. It's the motherboard speaker making a constant high pitched whine. It beeps once during P.O.S.T. but then reverts to an annoying whine. Any ideas what's going on?
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