From: gram on
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 to
shut it off.....thanks
From: Steve Pearce on
On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:54 -0700 (PDT), gram <grampage(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>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 to
>shut it off.....thanks

Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Whistling could be the invertor
for the backlight having problems.
From: Steve Pearce on
On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:20 +0100, Steve Pearce
<*stevepearce(a)btinternet.com*> wrote:

>On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:54 -0700 (PDT), gram <grampage(a)hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>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 to
>>shut it off.....thanks
>
>Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Whistling could be the invertor
>for the backlight having problems.

I should have asked, do you get any display at all in the BIOS, before
it attempts to boot Windows?
From: R.Smith on

"Steve Pearce" <*stevepearce(a)btinternet.com*> wrote in message
news:4vl0241i5v8rqhnef2471bj9agov2k27r3(a)4ax.com...
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:20 +0100, Steve Pearce
> <*stevepearce(a)btinternet.com*> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:54 -0700 (PDT), gram <grampage(a)hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>to
>>>shut it off.....thanks
>>
>>Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Whistling could be the
>>invertor
>>for the backlight having problems.
>
> I should have asked, do you get any display at all in the BIOS,
> before
> it attempts to boot Windows?

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
of blu-tack over the mic!


From: gram on
On 6 May, 14:17, "R.Smith" <R.Sm...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> "Steve Pearce" <*stevepea...(a)btinternet.com*> wrote in message
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> news:4vl0241i5v8rqhnef2471bj9agov2k27r3(a)4ax.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:20 +0100, Steve Pearce
> > <*stevepea...(a)btinternet.com*> wrote:
>
> >>On Tue, 6 May 2008 04:44:54 -0700 (PDT), gram <gramp...(a)hotmail.com>
> >>wrote:
>
> >>>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
> >>>to
> >>>shut it off.....thanks
>
> >>Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Whistling could be the
> >>invertor
> >>for the backlight having problems.
>
> > I should have asked, do you get any display at all in the BIOS,
> > before
> > it attempts to boot Windows?
>
> 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
> of blu-tack over the mic!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

thanks for all the help...i just disconnected speaker....thanks