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    E1405 High Pitch Noise -- quite annoying!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by metalblaze, Feb 5, 2007.

  1. metalblaze

    metalblaze Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi folks,

    I have been using my new Inspiron E1405 for about a month w/o any problems. For the past couple of days, I am noticing that from the upper left side of the keyboard (near the CPU fan) a very weird high frequency noise being emitted.

    As usual/typical, I googled and found out others having the same problem:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php?t-94065.html
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php?t-86439.html
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php?t-83622.html

    I have tried all the solutions suggested in these threads, and none worked. Finally, I contacted Dell and their support person worked with me for like 2 hrs to figure out the issue (running tests etc.). Finally, she said that she would like to do system restore, and that is where I had to ask her to call me later because I want to back up my data before any kind of restore.

    But even before I proceed for restore, I am curious to learn if anyone has found a fix? Note that, I also dual-boot this machine with Linux (Ubuntu Edgy) and I do not encounter this problem at all. This makes me wonder if it has something got to do with the OS?

    Any ideas will be really appreciated. Thanks - Jyoti
     
    metalblaze, Feb 5, 2007
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  2. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    If you have no trouble with ubuntu then it is quite possible that it's your OS. The only other thing that I can think of is that an internal fan is rubbing against something in the case, but I'm not familiar with the internal makeup of the e1405 so I can't verify this.
     
    Phillip, Feb 5, 2007
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  3. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    When you run Ubuntu, make sure that the fans are actually turning on. I know with my Inspiron e1505, and additional package is needed to run the fan, because they use an odd acpi config.
     
    Lysander, Feb 6, 2007
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    metalblaze Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, my fans are running well -- no worries on that aspect. I am still wondering what could Win XP Media Center mess up.... :confused:
     
    metalblaze, Feb 11, 2007
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