Dell Inspiron E1405/640m Owners

Hey Guys,

I was wondering if you could help me test something on your E1405s? I was in the library at school with no one else around me, and was barely able to hear a small whine coming from my "new" refurbished Dell, and I was going to see if maybe some of you could reproduce it.

If you could whenever you start you’re computer (restart if you can) and just let it boot into Windows and finish loading all your initial programs and applications. When it’s done, I want you to put your ear next to one of the speakers and move the mouse with the trackpad on the actual laptop. (you can just tap it if you'd like) See if you get a small/faint whining type sound whenever you move the mouse, and when you take your finger off and the mouse isn’t moving it goes away? You might have to make sure you are in a quiet room to hear it. Sometimes it seems the whine hangs around and i kind of pat the bottom of the laptop and it disappears.



It seems that when the laptop is working, loading up firefox, starting word, the computer becomes pretty much silent except for the normal hard-drive working sounds, and the whine disappears. I'm not sure if it's actually coming from the speakers, might be the bottom of the laptop...But I thought I'd check with you all...should I make a big deal out of it?


--Asif

 

Anyone? Please =)

 

could be your video card or cpu fan running.

If you think it's your speakers, maybe check out your volume settings or see if there is a new driver for your sound card.