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    What causes the Southbridge whine in the M1330?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by wdro, Sep 10, 2008.

  1. wdro

    wdro Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the A04 Motherboard and I am just wondering what causes the noise and if it's possible to mod it to make the noise disappear.
     
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    It's not the southbridge, it's the CPU whining at lower power states. It affects many laptops with Core 2 Duos and there is SADLY no fix. (Well, besides disabling lower power states, which will lower battery life). But I don't consider that a fix, I consider that a workaround.
     
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