From: kplumm on
If it is the mic then maybe uninstaling the audio in Device Manager
and letting this reinstall following a reboot should get things back
to normal. I did this on my own machine.

On May 6, 5:22 pm, gram <gramp...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 May, 14:17, "R.Smith" <R.Sm...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> > "Steve Pearce" <*stevepea...(a)btinternet.com*> wrote in message
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> > > On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:20 +0100, Steve Pearce
> > > <*stevepea...(a)btinternet.com*> wrote:
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> > >>On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:54 -0700 (PDT), gram <gramp...(a)hotmail.com>
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> > >>>hi i bought a laptop with not genuine copy of windows...i just kept
> > >>>using it...but today i turn it on and there is a high pitch sound
> > >>>coming out....is this because i failed to register...is there away
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> > >>>shut it off.....thanks
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> > >>Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Whistling could be the
> > >>invertor
> > >>for the backlight having problems.
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> > > I should have asked, do you get any display at all in the BIOS,
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> > > it attempts to boot Windows?
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> > Last time I had this was howl around from the internal microphone.
> > Dont know what started it but I couldnt disable it. So I stuck a piece
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> thanks for all the help...i just disconnected speaker....thanks- Hide quoted text -
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