> Yes, from talking to someone who works on the assembly line in Dell > here in Limerick, they seem to have totally different manufacturing > standards, tolerances, etc, for the high-end laptops and for the cheap > ones. I must own an inspironingly cheap one. Say so there is absolutely no software way to get rid of the singing capacitor? That's pretty much what I assume it to be. Singing capacitor caused by the interrupts at the end of each buffering cycle. I only have a vague idea what that means, but maybe you kernel people can help. Please? Carlo
