Thanks for the replies. I've run Prime95 to stress only the CPU and it's definitely not the fan causing this noise.
It really seems like a sudden case of coil whine from the GPU. It is strange because my temperatures are very healthy for a laptop.
Edit: I've managed to confirm that I've...
I have been using an Acer 5750G laptop for almost 2 years and have thousands of hours of gaming on it. I noticed only today that the GPU started to make a buzzing/chirping noise. It's not a high-pitched squeal but nevertheless, I'm led to believe it's coil whine. The noise definitely is from...
I am currently searching for a suitable laptop for a NGO to replace an old desktop (P4 Prescott!). The manager has told me they want to back up 40GB of data every now and then onto an external HDD. Since our budget is rather tight, we've settled on a Core i3 2330 or 2550M/500GB/4GB.
The...
An update to my story. I dug deeper and checked with Intel's Storage Manager software and the Gigabyte software to check which SATA ports were being used. Unfortunately, port 3 is used by my optical drive. Nevertheless, when I checked my serial number with Acer's website, they say my laptop...
I just found out today that my 3 month old Sandy Bridge laptop has the dreaded Intel HM65 revision B2 southbridge. As far as I'm aware, this only affects SATA ports 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Windows 7 picks up my HDD as Location 0 and my optical as Location 1. Does this mean it is using SATA ports 0 and...
I run games on a laptop which frankly I shouldn't even be trying to run them with.
Now, I know that the outer spindle of the harddrive is the fastest in terms of data access and loading, and I want to use my disk defrag program to move the stuff there.
Now, defrag programs come with a drive...
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