I'm very irritated with a rattle being created by the 'subwoofer' to the right of the touchpad on my new SXPS 16. Has anyone with a SXPS 16 noticed this rattle? The rattle is especially bad when I'm talking to people on skype; I'm assuming the midrange frequencies are causing the laptop to rattle. I tried using the equalizer in the audio settings but I can't get rid of the rattle. I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to fix this problem or at least improve it. Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but the sound on my SXPS 16 seems to be off center due to the odd placement of the subwoofer. Is there any simple way to make the audio sound more centered?

I'm having the same issue. It seems to be in every midrange frequency as you say that the subwoofer picks up. They're the upper end of the frequencies the subwoofer will actually produce and so are the punchiest and cause the most rattle. It's apparent for me when i'm listening to music the most

I just received my XPS 16 on Friday and the first thing I noticed afterr playing one the sample audio files was a very bad rattling/crackling of the speakers,. I'ts not bad at about 50% level, but higher and it is horrible. Sounds llike the speaker is cracked or something. It's fine through headphones, but I'm not sure I can keep this laptop always knowing I can't turn the volume up. Not sure about a subwoofer in this thing. Didn't know it had one. It's too bad because everything else seem to work perfectly so far. I think tomorrow I'm going to tell Dell to replace it. It will always bother me.

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Help!!! CPU always 100%

Help I am loosing My Mind

The Fan is almost always running on my machine and it is always hot this seems strange.

The CPU is almost always at 100%

I can not acess Adobe Reader and I have reinstalled the program.

things freeze up on the screen and seem to partially get stuck there for a while.

I have tried everything I know,

I Have done a virus scan with McAfee and no virus detected

I have done a spyware scan with adaware and just a few tracking cookies found

I have done a defrag anda disk reconfiguration and removed any programs not being used

I have plenty of memory available

What can I do

Message Edited by flymyst on 12-19-2004 08:47 PM

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start>run> type msconfig and click ok

general tab click on selective startup. uncheck the process system.ini, process win.in and load startup items. click apply then close and restart the computer.

when you restart will get a message saying that you have used the system configuration utilty click the checkbox that says don't show this message again then click ok and check if still cpu usage @ 100%
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Posted December 21st, 2004 11:00
Before you start messing with msconfig, go to Start/Run and enter 'taskmgr' After it starts, select the 'processes' tab and find what process(es) is(are) consuming your processor. After you determine this, then you can figure out what's wrong and what's needed to correct it.

Help!!! CPU always 100%

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