March 24, 2003
Laptop clicking?
My Toshiba 1405-S151 has started clicking from it's right speaker. It's not software related as it happens from about 2 seconds after the ROM startup screen appears. That and it happens even if the drive is not installed. As in, it's not running anything other than BIOS code. So before I suffer the agonies of Best Buy's support channel I figure asking around can't hurt. Got any ideas?
If it is something broken then toshibaparts.com might come in handy.
I had a Satellite 1805-s273 (PIII 1GHz) and had the same problem. I found it to be very bad when using processor intensive apps, lide 3d-rendering. I always attributed it to processor noise. As I slowed done the processor speed , the noise seemed to go away. I no longer have that laptop, so I am shooting from memory :-)
-apul
Posted by: paul jones on April 1, 2003 11:15 AMI have a 1Ghz Apple G4 PowerBook purchased in December and have noticed the exact same thing!
It only happens when I am not docked to an external display, and it gets more noticeable when I run processor intesive apps as well. My co-worker's laptop is from the same purchase, same date, same shipment and does not do this at all. We were actually discussing it last week.
The clicking is not loud, but is loud enough to be audible.
Any OS nonspecific ideas out there?
-Chris
