Windows 7 strange click then "not responding"

[yarn_to_be_spun]

Hey, I have a HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop with windows7 installed. For the last little while there has been a small click and then there is no sound in media player, any high-power program (like adobe premiere) goes "not responding" and I have to wait until I hear the click again to restart those programs. Or I can restart the whole laptop to fix it. So it's ridiculous...I hope it's not a hardware problem. Let me know if you have any ideas. thanx

 

[vectorsigma32]

wat ur specs ?

 

[yarn_to_be_spun]

it's got windows7 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7250 @2GHz, 3GB RAM, 32-bit OS, 250GB HD... anything else you think is relavent let me know

 

[Tmagic650]

Is this "click" from the speakers? Have you tried restoring the laptop using the HP restore feature? It could be a failing hard drive

 

[yarn_to_be_spun]

yes it is from the speakers, and no i haven't tried that. Is it different from the windows restore?
How would you do it?

 

[Tmagic650]

When the first boot up screen appears, look at the bottom of the display for something like "press F10 to Restore"...

 

[yarn_to_be_spun]

I tried restarting, it says to press f11 for system recovery, but when i press it, it starts beeping. Then it continues booting up like usual.

 

[Tmagic650]

Is this "click" from the speakers? Have you tried restoring the laptop using the HP restore feature? It could be a failing hard drive

Hard drive, check it for errors

 

[yarn_to_be_spun]

Yeah Tmagic you're right. I scanned it and its Error #10009 - Replace Hard Disk. Thanx for the advice

 

[Tmagic650]

No problem yarn_to_be_spun,
Glad we could help. Good luck!