Long story short, i was tired of the cpu whine of my m1530 and im tired of turning on rmclock too much fuzz and it did not completely solve my problem. So i tried something else, tweaking the bios.
My bios version is A05.
This is what i did to get rid of my noisy hard drive noises (95%) and cpu whine (100%)!!!
Oh and for people out there who might say: Dude its not cpu whine its caused by the mother board, yes i know, im just gonna call it cpu whine for short!
Here is the process:
- Going into bios by pressing F2 on boot screen.
- Then go to the section where you can mess around with the settings of wifi/bluetooth.
-Turn off the cellular thing if you do not use WWAN.
-Turn off other service that you do not have as well such as bluetooth.
-Go to the hard drive section, turn the hard drive on performance mode. (It eats more battery, but its less noisy? For me at least)
-Now just save the changes to the bios and you are done.
Tell me the results if it worked for you or not!
If you mess up during a step just reset bios!
Play around with the bios a bit.
Now my m1530's hard drive is not noisy at all finally i can leave it on over night! No more cpu whine thats a big plus as well!.
My battery life on battery saver: 5hr 21min (87%)
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I've tried turning stuff off on the m1330 (yeah i know this is about the 1530) and nothing really helped. The best was when i turned off the wifi-catcher. The whining got lower, but it's still annoying.
When i get home I'm gonna have another go at turning off the cell modem (even though there isn't one in my laptop) -
Oh btw, i think i turned the media card reader off as well since i don't use them.
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the best solution i have found is RMCLOCK, disable popup.
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It doesn't fully get rid of the cpu whine, i have really sensitive hearing...the super high pitched sound gives me a really bad headache after a while.
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I'll try this for my M1330 when I get home. But what exactly does the WWAN do? I don't want to disable it if I might be using it without realizing it.
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WWAN is a slot that you can put another wireless card in whether it be wifi, or for wireless internet say from sprint or verizon.
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I'll try this when I get home.
When I tried RMClock following the instructions posted here, it worked but it froze up my laptop within 15 mins, which has never happened before. -
Back to the drawing board...
Possible fix for m1530 cpu whine/loud hard drive (YEA!)
Discussion in 'Dell' started by Acorn, Feb 6, 2008.