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kockgunner

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Sep 24, 2007
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Vancouver, Canada
I have this weird problem. Sometimes when dragging something with the trackpad, I hear a faint buzz sound that's really hard to describe coming from the whole base of the laptop. I thought it was from the hard drive but now it seems like it comes from the speakers too. It's hard to pinpoint because everywhere I move my ear, the sound's volume is very similar. It's faint but you are able to hear it in a quiet room at assuming a normal distance from the computer.

It happens randomly during regular use, but always when I'm draggin something in Maya 2011. It doesn't matter if I'm scaling, rotating, or translating, every time I perform the drag motion on the trackpad (be it tap to drag or pressing down on the glass surface), there is this noise. It's really annoying, but I'm more worried if there's something wrong with my computer. Anyone else have this strange issue?
 
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