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    Whining sound in new sony vaio VGN FZ-190 CTO

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by coolguy, Jun 1, 2007.

  1. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    I just bought a new sony vaio FZ notebook. I hear a continunous whining/high pitched noise coming from the left bottom corner of my notebook.
    I had a hp dv6000t(new) before and returned it for the same reason. Please help me to resolve this issue. The noise increases when I open any web page in IE7, which has flash player animation. When I disable the flash activeX the sound stops temporarily. Is that processor sound?
     
    coolguy, Jun 1, 2007
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    i had a dv6000t that whined. I researched it and i found out that it has to do with the core 2 duo throttling. I'm not sure if its the same problem with the vaio.
     
    tasty_chicken, Jun 1, 2007
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    You can get rid of the sound by turning off window's ability to turn off the USB ports to save power.

    Go to systems -> Device Manager -> Universal Bus Controllers ->

    Right click on any and all USB Root Hub -> Go to the Power management tab and uncheck the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"

    The sound should disappear.
     
    Kamzu, Jun 7, 2007
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    Thanks but that's not the problem
     
    coolguy, Jun 13, 2007
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    why would turning off the USB ports cause a whining sound?
     
    HimeNoHogosha, Jun 14, 2007
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