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

Brian,

Unfortunately, it's constant irregardless of the screen brightness.

Cheers,
Andy

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At 4/11/2003 01:06 PM -0400, Brian Bender wrote:

>So, just out of curiosity, do you get the _other_ sound when you lower the
>screen's brightness? Or do I have a "unique" T21?... <g>
>
> - Brian
>
>On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
>
>>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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