Posts by pukebag

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m1710 dude, its under integrated usb hub

Ya, As the motherboard says its got to do with power saving issues. Only thing that is connected to the internal usb hub are the bluetooth, memory card reader, keyboard and mouse touchpad thingy. Not too sure if it will have any...

So I think I found a solution. I went into the bios and turned integrated usb hub to 2 instead of 1.1. It fixed the noise in vista. I found some interesting info aswell online The tiny high pitched whine is mainly found in the newer...

Crap, im starting to get the nosie in xp. Hmm methinks something wrong with laptop.

Even with the latest chipset/bios etc. the noise is still there.

same here dude, had to go back to XP. I couldnt stand it anymore. That and maya runs sucky on vista.

Yeah that whining sound is so annoying. The Dell bios update for the m1710 didnt fix it either. Its a vista issue?

Well the random chirp sound has gone thanks to you I modifed the Advanced Power Management using the feature tool and set it to off/full performance. No silly chirp sounds anymore Although its on full performance, battery life will...

Ah I see. I was a bit worried that my drive was bad. I shall try this tool in a mo. It would be good to hear from other people with the same laptop/experience just so I can sleep properly tonight and not worry