MY LAPTOP HAS STARTED TO CRACKLE

[fallyhag]

Hi there Forum

I have just bought a new Compaq Evo N110 Laptop.

Last night I had it on for a while when all of a sudden I started to notice a faint crackling sound.

As time went on it got worse and seemed to tie in with windows activity ie: When I opened up a window the crackling would get worse during the windows activity.

Before I go all guns a blazing, can someone Pse advise me as to what it might be.

Many thanks in advance

Fallyhag

 

[Speccie]

Hmm, Crackling makes me think of awful electrical things...but this surely couldnt be hard disk activity that you can hear?

regards Michael

 

[fallyhag]

No, the sound was, in my opinion, due to interference caused by the actions I was doing at the time. eg:

I opened the volume slider and as the window animated open the laptop started to make this horrible "crackling?" interference sound. I then continued to move the mouse etc... and all my actions were causing this sound.

With the laptop cold however it doesnt make the sound.

At the time I was using a USB mouse.

Any advice?

Fallyhag.

 

[Speccie]

Sorry Fallyhag, new to me, the obvious course I
guess, as its new. Take it back.
Michael

 

[SpecSys]

I am not sure its the same exactly, but I have had similar sounds when using a mouse on an old laptop I had. A CRX I believe. It was related to the mouse movement. Beyound that, I really never figured out what it was. The laptop was within a day or two of being replaced when it started, so I never looked into it further.

Seems to me that it would quit if I rebooted, and it may have had something to do with the mouse port. Being that you have a USB I don't know. Try a different mouse.