S96S High pitched TEEEEEEEEEEEEE noise HELP

k, guys looks like i am having the same problems as most of the HP notebook owners in this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=85477
i thought it was the HD initially but i guess i was wrong.I fixed it temperarily through RM clock but this noise makes my ears bleed. Since HP's use asus boards do u guys think that i am doomed?

can some of the s96s owners comment on this? do u have the same problem?
i am going to call tech support(i got it from xoticPC, hopefully their customer service is better that HP and what they had to say about the problem)

 

take out any cds you have in it. or plug in headphones to see if its a sound problem.

 

i get the same kind of noise, but i've just learn to not pay attention to it. I only noticed it just now because you've reminded of it. Look at what you have done! Lol j/k. Not sure what it is though =/

 

after my lil research.....it is not sounddrivers or cd drive...

the problem is the cpu when it is stepped down to 1.2ghtz...if u disable speed step in bios the sound goes away but obviously u lose a chunk of your battery life. RM clock utility can also be used to do this ...click on management and check on "run HLT command" and after the automatic program restart the noise goes away.

I will try to ignore it but c'mon guys when i am in the library and it is so quit, and all i hear from this laptop TTTTTTTeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (pause)TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/archive/index.php?t-3516.html

try this. it uses rmclock, but in a different way. supposedly, it doesn't affect the battery life as much.

 

hmm, i tried that but there is platform tab but i can't check or change anything. Apparently i need the platform tab to actually stop the noise

 

mD- r u able to access the platform tab?

 

do you have the newest version? if so, this may be an incompatibility with the santa rosa platform. i have a t5600, and i am able to check options in platform.

 

oh, thanks for sharing that info ejl. i think they should update the program inorder to access that "platform" part. But the newest version does support ICH8 chipset....i dunno what is the problem

 

god i love youtube..someone actually uploaded this listen carefully, the noise is annyoying as hell in person
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=legqLFgMKEo

 

i have this same problem. i have cross shipped a HD and it still does it. then i did research and also found the hp thread. rmclock does fix this but then my fans run constantly. i was messing around some more today, and have noticed after installing power4gear i dont get the sound anymore on battery. i also had the same problem you did satdog. i cant access that tab in rmclock.

this drives me crazy, and i am currently waiying to hear back from tech support. they dont seem to have any answer to this. they keep giving me to the next person

 

I can only say it is not a HDD problem, it is a CPU problem: one of the deep=sleep states.

The fact that fans run constantly seems to imply that the RM Clock solution puts a lot of load on the CPU; if that is the case, I wouldn't advise using that solution (running HLT shouldn't heat up the CPU too much however, at least that's what I would imagine).

 

curious does everyone have this issue with this comp or is it hit and miss? i just want to know so i dont waste my time sending in my laptop and getting another one that does the samething

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138778&page=2

details on my settings and the new version of rmclock

what i have noticed is the c4state is what makes the noise. something else i noticed, after running my laptop on those settings i mentioned in the thread, i enabled the c4 state back on and i can still hear the noise but only when put my ears really close to keyboard area---a vast improvent i would say. so, i now i enabled the c4 state and the noise is not high pitched anymore, instead, it is like short TEE, TEe, intervals(again i can't hear this until i put my ears really close to the keyboard)

Hey myshkin, try my settings for a while(aday or two) and enable c4state back, see if that does anygood.

 

a weired experience all around.. but great laptop tho, i take it everywhere from school to starbucks and the whole nine yards.

 

well what do u know the new dell1520 has the same problem. apparently dell can't do anything either

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s5xwSJJPoVY

we r not alone guys .

 

i think many notebooks have this issue

 

Yes, because it is not the notebook it is the CPU line. ALL notebooks which have this type of CPU are prone to having it. I cannot state it more clearly than that

 

Try the following:
- Increase the voltage when the CPU multiplier is low (6x, I guess), which can be done with Notebook hardware control. eg, if you have 1.175V in the max multiplier, then put 1.175V in the lowest multiplier too
- Run a program that constantly uses 100% of one of the CPU cores (eg. uh... any CPU stress program that doesn't use both cores) and keep it running in the background

 

I'm not sure the voltage would fix the problem.

I'm sure running the stress program will fix the problem.

But both these solutions look like healing the disease by killing the patient, really... the CPU will heat up and eat power unnecessarily, with both of them. In addition with the second you will always have one core busy. Rather than taking solution 2, I would just setup RMCLock to run HLT instructions, at least the CPU power is available when you need it, with that solution.

 

thanks for all the fix ideas. I just am very upset that this problem has existed for a longtime now, and still it hasnt been addressed. I'm not blaming asus or this model, i realize this isnt a issue with a certain laptop brand. The fact is this problem has been talked about for over a year now, and it hasnt beed fixed. Part of the problem is people just put up with it like its normal. i dont consider it normal to spend 1200$ on a something that has such an annoying noise. laptops are made to take to places like work and school. places where a high pitched noise can drive you crazy. People need to stop turning up their music to drown out this noise, and start making calls.

 

Believe it or not,

I had this problem with my V6V when both of these occur:

1. the computer is set to "maximum performance" on battery mode
2. the one 1GB stick of RAM is installed (!)

Before I had the 1GB stick installed, I had 256 MB RAM x2 sticks in the slots and my computer did not exhibit the whining, pitchy noise coming from the location of the RAM slots (yes, the exact noise as the Dell youtube video is gone).

Check your RAM configuration.

 

well if you read the readme.txt file of RMclock is says that the HLT thing just fools RM /windows clock into thinking that its running at full speed, when it really is not. something along those lines.

its simply a problem with all Core Duo and Core 2 Duo CPU's. perhaps some notebook chassis amplify the sound rather well due to their construction.

i use NHC now and has adjusted my voltages all the the lowest settings possible (works for me), and i hardly notice the sound anymore.

 

It's near to impossible to address the problem, probably because
it is a combination of CPU + laptop electronics layout, so it is impossible to solve it on any given type of laptop that has it.

By the way, in reply to the suggestion of raising the voltage at the lowest multipliers: that has the potential to damage the CPU so don't even think about doing it.

The solution of Insane (using undervolting) makes much more sense.

 

I'm not sure if you've read this thread...it might have something to do with USB power saving feature, the solution someone had is on the page. Hope this helps. I've actually ordered one of these laptops and awaiting its arrival.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138778&page=10

 

The F3Sv-A1 models do not suffer from this problem! I have bought 4 Asus notebooks this summer for various customers of mine. Two where S96S models, BOTH make this annoying noise! The other two where F3Sv-A1 models, and they do not make the noise. All four of them had t7300 processors and 2 GB of ram.

The other odd thing is that the F3Sv-A1 model can scale it's FSB up and down, all M965 chipsets should be able to, but the S96S doesn't. I am using CPU-Z to check the CPU and FSB speeds.

 

Yep, for some hardware configurations you can hear the sound and for some you can't. It's just luck...