On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:44:08AM +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > I don't > quite understand what the purpose of loading the power supply would be; > I've hooked up my Palm Zire or a USB microphone (which sounded like > crap, but did load the power supply) and experienced no additional hum > whatsoever. If the sound comes from near the CPU, then it's probably one of the low voltage (1.3 V or some such) regulators that produces it, and loading the USB supply (5 V) will not make any difference. -- FA Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa.