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    Dell 6000 High Pitch Whining Noise When Scrolling

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by benjeezy, Jun 16, 2005.

  1. benjeezy

    benjeezy Newbie

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    Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me...

    I just bought a dell i6000d and it is only a week old.
    When scrolling up and down web pages, I am experiencing a high pitch whining noise. It comes from the left side of the computer and is very annoying. This happens with my USB wireless mouse using the wheel scrolling. I have read many threads about this subject but I can not find a solution to fix this problem. Can somebody please help me? thank you!
     
    benjeezy, Jun 16, 2005
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  2. mikeakajb

    mikeakajb Notebook Consultant

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    Thought you said the right side my bad... Yah the left side has the fan... and then the cd drive. Is it like a hissing sound normally heard in other electronics when electricity is going across something unshielded? I mean like the hissing noise you get from tvs or when other high power electronics are engaged...
     
    mikeakajb, Jun 16, 2005
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  3. chong67

    chong67 Notebook Deity

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    It only makes this nice when you use the USB wireless mouse?

    I am not going to get the USB wireless mouse then.
     
    chong67, Jun 16, 2005
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    bugmenot Notebook Evangelist

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    The fan is in the upper left corner. Could it be that?
     
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  5. orjan

    orjan Notebook Consultant

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    This is most probably the same noise as on other Pentium M laptops. It can be fixed by switching on bluetooth at all times or only running the CPU at lower speed. See this thread for a good workaround: http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16307

    I will probably report this to Dell support since I have the same problem with my Dell D610, but I don't think Dell will fix it if it's hard to fix. HP might fix it for their laptops but Dell is a low-cost brand and you get what you pay for.
     
    orjan, Jun 16, 2005
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    malverd Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had this same problem with a Latitude D610. The high pitch would come from the upper left of the keyboard and the upper right.

    It would occur after my laptop was placed in suspend or hibernate. I was able to isolate the problem by toggling the fn and F2(wireless) key on and off. This made the high pitch disappear.

    I have read several posts about changing the USB Root Hub setting in Device Manager to "Allow computer to turn off this device to save power".

    I noticed from the beginning however, that my bluetooth icon was not active in the system tray.

    I went to Dell's site and downloaded the Bluetooth file for the D610. I ran it and it removed the Bluetooth. I thought "what the ??". So I went the the directory where I downloaded the file and ran the setup. Now it shows the active Bluetooth icon in the system tray.

    I can now shut the lid on the laptop and when I resume there is absolutely no whine at all.

    I hope this helps others and would appreciate hearing any feedback.

    Good Luck...
     
    malverd, Jul 21, 2005
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