High Pitched Noise from new Pavilions

Neah...it's only one year but I don't understand why. It's mandatory to have at least 2 years of limited warranty service in Euroland.

 

What worked for me was changing my power options in Control Panel from High Performance back to Balanced. Basically I was able to reproduce the high pitch by toggling back and forth between the settings.

 

Okay. I bought my HP laptop in December 2008. It's been doing good and thing's have been going great with it. Well, I got a virus about a month and a half ago and I had it sent to a local repairman who reinstalled Vista on it. Well, ever since then this annoying buzzing sound is coming from what sounds like the fan or CPU. When the fans kick in it gets so much louder. I haven't taken the time to go through all of these settings, but does anyone know what I could do to make it stop? It's so annoying. I've set my power to Balanced so it might shut up, but it still does it. Please email me at [email protected] (old email) with the title "HP Problems" or something. Thank you.

 

Many years ago, I went through high pitch noise issues with desktops. It didn't matter whether it was Gateway, IBM, HP, Compaq, Sony, etc. What I found was that there were certain brands of hard drives that made a high pitched whine that actually hurt my ears. I found,too, that Maxtor drives were much quieter than others I had. So, I'd suggest folks compare which hard drives are in their laptops if that information is available.

 

Yeah, I get a really bad feeling when I think about the Chinese selling tires over here. No quality control. Could be hell on wheels, literally. This is what happens when a country takes over production for the entire world and no court can hold them accountable for short cuts. That being said, it could be any nation that has grown beyond its ability to monitor its products for quality. There are quality protection measures in the U.S. because we went through the same growing pains and greed. People were hurt or killed. Remember the Ford Pinto and Chevy Pickups with gas tanks that caught fire in collisions? Alas, I digress. People thought I was crazy when I kept buying and returning computers due to high pitched whines. But, I couldn't tolerate the pain of using my computer because my ears hurt so bad. My Dell Dimension4500,though, has been whisper quiet. It has a Maxtor drive.

 

Maxtor followed by WD, though I've not really checked WD's laptop drives.

Heck for that matter some thin form DVD's are maddening if not mounted correctly, nothin but vibes and noise

 

I bought my dv9040us back in 2007 and fixed the high pitched whine by going into the device manager and unchecking "allow windows to turn this device off to save power" under each USB hub. Now I just upgraded from xp to windows 7 and this god forsaken noise is back. Doing the same with the USB hubs in windows 7 does not stop the high pitched noise. I literally want to cut my ears off because this noise is so amazingly annoying. Please, any help?

 

Hey - Crashoran, I'm having the EXACT same frustrating problem as you. Spent a lot of time on these threads nearly three years ago, fixing the whining problem. The RMClock worked for me, but I when I upgraded to Windows 7 a few weeks ago, that tactic was no longer working (RMClock works fine, but it's just not getting rid of the noise). Changed the USB settings and the Bios settings - no avail.

One thing I JUST tried was to change the power management option to "power saving" (the person a few posts back was right - you can hear an audible difference when you switch to "high performance" (loud whine) and "balanced" (medium whine), and now when I switched to "power saving" it seems to really have reduced it).

I'll update later if this seems to be working. In the meantime, does anyone else have a solution within Windows 7?

 

This may not be useful to everyone, however the static noise that i use to hear, or I thought was the cpu fan, was from the speakers. I figured this out when i finally decided to plug in my sound system to my comp that I realized the noise was coming through the speakers. After some extensive googling, I found that supposedly its the mic jack that is picking up white noise or what not; basically all I had to due was mute the external microphone.
I'm not exactly sure its the real problem, but it fixed the noise I use to hear.

To mute it open the sound window(type sound in the start menu)> click recording tab> highlight External mic, click properties> click levels tab and hit the little mute button.
Hope this helps anyone, its worth a shot.

 

I hear a weird sound when I'm scrolling in any Internet Browser and also when I'm editing photos. I think it has something to do with the GPU, but I'm not sure.

Is that at all similar to what you guys are having or is mine a different sound?

 

Yes it's the GPU. The choke coils filtering the core voltage aren't built well and they buzz under load. I've seen it on several nVidia desktop cards as well, and my Radeon HD3870 used to buzz when there was very high contrast on the screen.

If you are brave enough you can take it apart and brush some clear lacquer or thin epoxy over them and let it dry. That'll stop the buzzing, but it'll also void your warranty. I did it on my desktop HD3870 card and it quieted down.

 

1. We have to change the registry.
Typing in the command line "regedit", you go to the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Power \ PowerSettings \ 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 \ 5d76a2ca-e8c0-402f-a133-2158492d58ad

2. Included option in this branch will enable and disable the idle processor. In this case, it should be included.
To enable one or another hidden parameter, it is necessary to find and edit the value DWORD, changing its value SettingValue from 1 to 0.

3. Then, through the control panel - power - in the settings mode select power management processor.
There will be an option disabling idle processor and high pitched noise immediately disappears.

 

This worked great but now the fan is always loud. With this option disabled, cpu temps rose by 30 degrees. Is there another fix?