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    help with external battery back squeak

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bigd00d00, Jan 14, 2008.

  1. bigd00d00

    bigd00d00 Newbie

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    I just purchased a universal external battery pack for my laptop. For some reason when i plug in this new battery pack, my laptop makes this high pitch squeaking sound. There is no sound if i use either original battery or the power pack. Is this something i should worry about? thanks for the help
     
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    yock1960 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is it the laptop or the battery making the noise? The reason I ask is that I once had an external battery for a Palm PDA that made a high pitched squealing type sound when plugged into the PDA. It also seemed to get warm rather quickly when re-charging the PDA. I think there must have been something wrong with whatever voltage regulating circuitry was in the battery pack. In any case, it eventually died and I bought another one which has never made the sound.

    I know this doesn't really help....just sharing a similar experience.
     
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    bubba_000 Notebook Evangelist

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    my packard bell laptop makes a high-pitched sound when its idling, wheter its on battery or AC. Also, i heard that many laptops have this problem, known as ''cpu whine'', so i don't think there's any problem.
     
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    the high pitch squeaking sound comes from the laptop when it is plugged into the external battery pack. But it is silent if it is connected to a regular wall outlet. i was thinking it might be the different voltage/current .(not sure, not very familiar) could it possibly fry my hardware?
     
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