my Sony laptop makes noise and shut down when booting OS

[Wale_Bayode]

problems with my laptop: when i turn it on it makes a banging noise like church bell for like 35secs and later stopped to continue POST again when want to boot windows (Vista) it shut itself down. it only boot in safe mode without shuting down. pls help me

[DaveLembke]

Your Hard Drive is the likely cause of the Gong ( church bell ) sound. I heard drives before make a sound like that, just not as loud as a church bell gong and it was the arm in the drive slamming and the platters in the drive resonating the sound to make a bell like sound.

Do you have the media to install clean or repair installation for this computer?
Do you happen to have a spare hard drive available to swap out the drive, and install clean to a different hard drive?

[Lorraine walsh]

Are you using battery power or is it plugged into the wall while you're using it? It could be the laptop's PSU going out, or perhaps something is wrong with the motherboard. It may also be over heating super quickly, though unlikely.