[Maflynn]

I received my 15” al powerbook, last week and I’m noticing a “sizzle” or some sort of background interference emanating from the speakers. It’s more pronounced when I’m copying stuff from my cube via the Ethernet.

Any ideas what this could be, will it correct itself after I “burn in” the computer. So I have not found any other defects, no dead pixels, or those infamous white spots. I would really hate to send this in since I just got it, plus I don’t know if this type of problem would necessitate a new laptop and so I may get one that’s worse off.

Any advice would be helpful.
Mike

[Maflynn]

Update,
I've been running setiathome to put a decent load on the cpu and increase the temp. The sounds seem to have disappeared, so it seems the intererence is when the computer is cold.

Again any input would be welcome.
Mike

[workerbee]

PowerBooks have been sizzling since the days of the Pismo, maybe even before that.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=sizzle

etc. etc.

Hint: try searching the forum for "sizzle"