Is There A Way You Can Get Rid Of CPU Whine?

Hi Guys,
I just bought a New Dell XPS M 1330. It was alright the first day but today I am getting CPU Whine. It's soo annoying? Is there a way you can rid of the CPU Whine?
This is driving me nuts. Please let me know.

Cheers

 

You could try the RMClock trick, by turning off the C4 state, but that may cause instabilities.

The only other way is to get an exchange, either of the whole system, or replace the CPU.

 

I think the only way is to start adjusting to this mild whining

Yeah you can use RMClock but it will increase the battery usage even when the CPU is idle....

 

its more than likely some feature in the chips / board and the OS is just doing what it normally does, the malfunction is on quite the broad scale......lets see if Intel owns up to it

So far there is no real fix for it, you could return it and get stuck with the same issue again.....but you might as well try

 

Thanks for the replies...I'll hang onto it. Ive waited 2 months for this computer and its a little upsetting but as there is no concrete solution I'll hang onto it. So does this seem to be an issue with the New Santa Rosa Chipset??

 

No, it's been an issue with Intel's (haven't heard any problems with AMD's mobile CPUs, although there are less of them, so that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist for theirs) low power states in many of their mobile CPUs. It's not something new to the Santa Rosa platform.

 

My noise seems to be conincident with harddrive activity rather than cpu.

 

My educated guess, then, it's that it is the hard drive.

With Vista the HD is currently, constantly, irreducibly working. What I hate the most is that click... click... click one second or so apart.
As for the dreaded whine my Vostro 1500 seems to be immune, as of now.
It hums. Seems something like the 50-60 Hz hum one can hear in main transformers. It hums the same when on battery, though.
Looks like somehow the whine has been muffled. Who knows, maybe they coated the capacitors that were rumored to be the cause of it...

The hum is not particularly problematic, from my perspective. A high pitched noise would have been far more annoying.
And yet, I have never seen my cpu in a state different from C0.

Is there some tool to actually check the transitions to different power states?

 

If you feel your hard drive is being indexed all the time, then turn off the indexing service.....

 

Funny thing is that I did turn off indexing. I also reduced the shadow copy disk storage to 6 GB and excluded every folder that I could from its field of action. Also shrinked the space to be occupied by temporary internet files (it was a hefty 30 GB!!! - granted it is not allocated until the files pile up into the cache) and allocated a maximum of 3 GB for the recycle bin.
My search doe not seems to find terms in the files I added (as per my choice) and none of the files I've examined as a shadow copy whatsoever. Moreover I have no recovery point except the one set by Dell.

I disabled, I think, every third party update service, every program that is not essential from starting up either as a program or as a service.

And still Vista is accessing my hard disk wildly, especially when the laptop goes into 'sleep', or at least should go into sleep. My processor passes from 3-4% to 45-60% usage.
What the heck is it doing?

And that's only half of the story: it eats up about 1 GB every two days or so. Righ now Vista along with the programs loaded by Dell (which are not a great deal on a Vostro), is taking some 20-21 GB of hard drive space (or even more, I've yet to check it out recently).

This is madness.
(I can't exclude the possibility that I screwed something up, but I have been very conservative in my chopping)

I tried to locate the source, no wait, the sink of the problem, but the "folder size" feature of Vista is nothing but a joke. When I try to see how much space is occupied by the windows folder it says "this folder is bigger than 210 MB".
Probably in Redmond this is thought to be funny.

I can't wait till the time I'll wipe this Resorces Black Hole away from my laptop.

 

hi, i know this is prob a bit old post but try getting treesize and see where most of the usage is gone to, it details each directory and size of them.
hope that helps