[Sussex] Odd noise on laptop - hard drive?

[John Crowhurst]

On Mon, July 18, 2005 18:39, Rupert Swarbrick said:
> Very strange high-pitched whirring sound from hard disk (I think) - this
> is irritating, but strangely when I do `modprobe uhci-hcd`, the whirring
> noise suddenly stops.

My sister's laptop has a damaged fan which makes a high pitched whirring
sound, but the fan cuts out after a while.

I suspect there is some power drain when you enable the USB ports, perhaps
that fools the fan into stopping.

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