Re: [Thinkpad] T41 squeals when lid is lowered??

It like a standby failure alarm. If you go into power properties and set the
standby switch to "do nothing", does it still sound when you close the lid?
What about when you hit Fn+F4??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg K" <lists@gak.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] T41 squeals when lid is lowered??

> Here's an odd question that I can't find an answer to on Google. My new
T41
> makes a squealing noise when I lower the lid - it sounds like microphone
> feedback. It's clearly not mechanical in nature (it doesn't happen when
you
> move the lid when the machine is powered off.) The sound keeps going as
> long as the lid is held down and appears to stop the machine from entering
> standby.
>
> The noise seems to start about when the "going to standby" beep usually
> would have been emitted. Turning the speakers off stops the problem -
oddly
> enough selecting another input source other than the built-in mic does
> *not* fix it.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? (It's not subtle, btw)
>
> Greg
>
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