Re:[Thinkpad] T21 WinXP weird background sounds from speakers

Brian,

I'm pretty sure it's got to do with the sound driver. I'm going to reload
XP from scratch when I get a chance.

Cheers,
Andy

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At 4/11/2003 10:30 AM -0400, Brian Bender wrote:

>A question for the O.P.:
>
>Is it _always_ constant? I noticed the same thing with my T21 (running
>Linux), but it's only when the screen isn't running at full brightness
>(either manually lowered w/ fn-End or when running on battery power). At
>full brightness on AC power, the sound isn't there. I assume it's
>something related to the "dimmer" circuit for the backlight...
>
> - Brian
>
>>Message: 3
>>From: jberry@islandnet.com (Jonathan Berry)
>>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T21 WinXP weird background sounds from speakers
>>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:14:29 -0800
>>Organization: www.islandnet.com/~jberry/
>>
>>In article <5.2.0.9.0.20030331155618.042d9b18@po1.vivacenetworks.com>,
>>"Andrew G. Malis" <Andy.Malis@vivacenetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>>There's a constant low-level intermittent (about a 75% duty cycle with
>>>varying but average cycles of 1/2 sec to about 4 seconds) "whine".
>>
>>There was a slightly similar problem with the 701C under a
>>particular BIOS.
>

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Received on Fri Apr 11 13:05:40 2003