I have the same problem with my Latitude D510 whether I'm on power or battery. The only way I can kill the hissing is by playing audio or video (creating more noise:)) but what i do sometimes is play audio and mute the sound. Anyone with a more practical solution?!!
Just received my X1 about 2 weeks ago. I have the same annoying sound. The two solutions that work are turning on winamp and muting volume or turning on bluetooth. Does anyone else know of a possible (permanent) fix for this?
I have updated the bios to A04 and updated all of the drivers possible.
I had a similar problem with my D410. A high pitched whining came from the left hand side of the laptop (opposite side to the HD). I could only stop the sound by switching one both bluetooth and wireless. Hope this helps (until Dell releases a fix....?)
Hi guys,
unfortunately i left the job, where i uses to use D610. But on the other side, i'm sure that this noise is made by working with Intel's speedstep. So you should try to find some progs or tweakers, that are able to work with this functionality. Maybe you'll find some solutions.
PS: I have now little older and bulky C840 and it's very quite (no hissing). Moreover I have to say, that my display is much better (colors, light) than it was on D610. It seems, that D610 line is generally worse :(
Got a new D610 about a week ago and started to notice the annoying noise. After reading some of the notes on the forum, it would appear that the noise is related to the system being idle. So what to do to make the system busy, yet not take away performance: Grid.Org!
When joining the Grid, you support medical science by making your computer available for computational analysis for cancer research and other studies. Some one million users around the world participate. The grid works by using idle cycles on you computer. Its priority is set very low so none of your applications are affected. But, at the same time, your processor runs always at 100%.
The moment I loaded the Grid software and activated it, the annoying noise disappeared. I can make it re-appear at any moment by telling the Grid to snooze.
In short, a perfect solution to an annoying problem and you are supporting basic research at the same time. A true Win-Win if I ever saw one.
Nahla
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October 11th, 2005 12:00
insight_p
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November 4th, 2005 17:00
I think it may be due to the hard disk. Can any one try to replace the hard disk and
see what happens after that?
jhlim01
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November 8th, 2005 18:00
MoonenW
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November 29th, 2005 06:00
I did replace the disk - nothing has changed.
Regards,
Will
Dave the Brit
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December 29th, 2005 21:00
Hey Guys,
I had a similar problem with my D410. A high pitched whining came from the left hand side of the laptop (opposite side to the HD). I could only stop the sound by switching one both bluetooth and wireless. Hope this helps (until Dell releases a fix....?)
:smileyhappy:
Yankee_In_TX
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December 30th, 2005 15:00
insight_p
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December 31st, 2005 11:00
Just FYI, I found 2 solutions for this:
1. use "foobar2000" to play a mp3 file, and then pause it.
or
2. Install linux (I suggest ubuntu) as your operating system, and pass "stop=halt" to
the kernel parameters.
xJohny
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January 16th, 2006 11:00
unfortunately i left the job, where i uses to use D610. But on the other side, i'm sure that this noise is made by working with Intel's speedstep. So you should try to find some progs or tweakers, that are able to work with this functionality. Maybe you'll find some solutions.
PS: I have now little older and bulky C840 and it's very quite (no hissing). Moreover I have to say, that my display is much better (colors, light) than it was on D610. It seems, that D610 line is generally worse :(
Muntdrop
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March 22nd, 2006 00:00
Got a new D610 about a week ago and started to notice the annoying noise. After reading some of the notes on the forum, it would appear that the noise is related to the system being idle. So what to do to make the system busy, yet not take away performance: Grid.Org!
When joining the Grid, you support medical science by making your computer available for computational analysis for cancer research and other studies. Some one million users around the world participate. The grid works by using idle cycles on you computer. Its priority is set very low so none of your applications are affected. But, at the same time, your processor runs always at 100%.
The moment I loaded the Grid software and activated it, the annoying noise disappeared. I can make it re-appear at any moment by telling the Grid to snooze.
In short, a perfect solution to an annoying problem and you are supporting basic research at the same time. A true Win-Win if I ever saw one.
Mugatu_daf76f
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April 14th, 2006 08:00