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    My Private Airplane

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by forallandmore, Feb 27, 2008.

  1. forallandmore

    forallandmore Newbie

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    Hi!!

    I´m from Spain and I received my XPS1530 last friday. Im falling in love with him, but i have some problems.

    When i play a DVD in windows media player, pc makes a terrible noise and i think it go to take off :) . However, if i play DVD in Dell media there is no noise.

    Do you know something about this problem?

    Thank you in advance for your answers and sorry about my english
     
    forallandmore, Feb 27, 2008
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  2. xoul

    xoul Notebook Guru

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    You mean like a speaker noise sound, popping or hissing or dvd drive noise? Give more information on your problem please.
     
    xoul, Feb 27, 2008
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  3. forallandmore

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  4. xoul

    xoul Notebook Guru

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    Yeap, seems like a dvd drive noise, try with different dvd's something the noise is less with some discs. Also check with other M1530 users to see how loud is the sound in theirs.

    I know in my thinkpad t43 it was making that loud drive noise and when i replace the drive it was almost gone...you can still hear the spinning but smoother.
     
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  5. ifti

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    I had the same with my old D620.

    I never had it when watching a DVD though - since the drive only needs to spin at low speed to watch a movie or read most data. I only ever had it when the drive spun at full speed when writing to a disc.

    I dont know why your drive needs full speed for Media Player though. Check your player settings etc?
     
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    Yes, I think the problem is windows media settings, because if I play in Dell Media Center everything is all right. I think ill try to use another player to see what happens
     
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    Just a guess here, but does the Dell player have a disc noise reduction ability, where it slows disc speed to reduce motor noise. I know Toshiba's come with this type of program installed. Maybe you're just hearing full disc speed for a change.
     
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    Its definately just because the disc is spinning at full speed - not any fault with the drive or anything.
     
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    OK, thank you.

    Now i will try to search something about the hard disk noise in the topics
     
    forallandmore, Feb 27, 2008
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