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Sseadoubleyou
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March 19th, 2008 17:00
'White noise' problems with XPS machines?
I was wondering if the XPS notebooks have the annoying 'white noise' problems that the Inspiron's seem to be plagued with? I have had numerous Inspiron systems and they have all had 'white noise' problems (low pitched audio whining noises coming from the mouse pad, or built in speakers, etc).
I'm really hoping that I don't have to worry about this problem with the XPS but I guess if I do I should be use to it as I've had to deal with it for years now. I don't understand why Dell can't fix this problem. I have never seen another brand of computer before that has this problem...
Sseadoubleyou
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Posted March 20th, 2008 09:00
Why are they not able to get rid of this problem? No other computer that I've ever had has this problem. I just don't understand why year after year after year Dell can't seem to fix it? It makes no sense to me...
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Posted March 20th, 2008 07:00
Have seen a few threads regarding tis issue and experienced it myself, having the motherboard replaced made it worse. The finger seems to be pointed at the connection between the headphone jack and the chassis, apparently isolating the screw holes with electrical tape where the headphone board attaches to the chassis can help. Doing this means you have to pull your laptop to bits, not for the faint hearted LOL.
Many amps also suffer from ground loop inteference, so connecting your XPS laptop to one of these can exacerbate the problem. On headphones only my replacement lappy is OK, hook it up to the amp and yikes. My previous non-Dell laptop also exhibited this but it wasn't so pronounced.