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    Battery noise?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Snakedtx, Feb 16, 2011.

  1. Snakedtx

    Snakedtx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,

    I have formatted my laptop a week ago and I reinstalled most apps etc and windows 7 ultimate.

    I only have 1 game on it and thats WoW atm. So when I start it up in login screen and while charging my battery it is making some noise the noise dissapears when I minimize WoW, but it returns when its maximized, so I removed the battery from the laptop. I also have a bad habit of removing the battery out my laptop when its done charging while on netpower.

    Should I be worried?
     
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    Snakedtx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Also started noticing some small dots(kind of artifacts on video's like youtube)

    could this be a video card problem?
     
    Snakedtx, Feb 17, 2011
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    artifacts = video problem, yes (most of the time).

    Battery noise might be just vibrations from caps or chokes or somthing, might be normal. Going to probably be less noticeable if your frames per sec are low.
     
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    well the dots only appear on youtube like movies but a game like wow has no artifacts, I finds this strange and quite annoying (dots on battery and netpower)

    a link to a screenshot:

    http://www.mediafire.com/?7axwjbccv6ym3i8

    should prolly be adobe flash player being ****ed up....
     
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    Did you try updating flash player and your video driver?
     
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    Yea tried 3 drivers clevo one's and 2 nvidia's one. The thing is avi/mpeg and so on don't have any problem.
    I think its a problem with adobe flash player the newest, I might go and download an older one if I can find one.

    Quite annoying to watch youtube / flash movies with those particles
     
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    It seems the problem has been fixed. I let my battery just run out and my laptop shut down so far so good I think.
     
    Snakedtx, Feb 18, 2011
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