Advanced Dock 25031 + ATI x300 + 22" = Audio Noise

Hi there
It's a tough World to fit things in. I've had the Advanced Dock + z60M for 2 years now, of perfect working.
Lately i managed to add a 2nd hand ATI x300 Graphics PCIe card to it, and 2   22" Viewsonic Monitors.
Imediately i noticed a low frequency noise coming out of the "Line out" audio of the dock. This is never ending  and very anoying.
Noise stops when i disconnect both DVI cables from the advanced dock.
Could someone shed some light on this, please ?
I'm no such expert on this. My understanding is that both monitors (which are the same model) have their power source inducing electrical noise through their attached cables (lead and DVI) hence reaching the line out through the dock.
Maybe it's possible to solve this by adding some sort of in line filter to the DVI cable. Don't really know !
This doesn't happen if i unplug the Jack from the dock and connect it directly to the laptop ! I don't see this as the solution.
Help please !
Best Regards
FJBatista

Isolation Transformer completely removed the Laptop+Dock working noises.
That equals :  one happy user here !! 

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    but would not work with my larger WD 320GB Scorpio or ANY optical drives whatsoever. Testing with numerous
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    After many hours of troubleshooting and reading as much as we could find on the Internet there was no change.
    Then again, all of a sudden, it started reading even my larger 320GB Scorpio hdd. But still no optical drives.
    More hours of troubleshooting and then - out of the blue - it started reading the optical drives.
    But that's when it really started getting interesting. When it would read the hdd's ok, it would not read *any* optical drives
    correctly. The rare times we got it to read the optical drives, it would not read *any* hdds. We have never been able to
    get it to correctly read a hdd and then an optical drive or visa versa.
    When it reads the hdds but no optical drives, the Combo drives would be recognized as "Removable disk" with or without a drive letter.
    The DVD-Multi would just not show up (explorer) but shows up in DevMgr as "USB drive" with nothing in Computer.
    No matter what after that, the optical drive types throw up a 'disk not formatted' warning and\or if you try to access the disk,
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    When the hdds are working, they are correctly recognized as usb hdd in DevMgr. When they are not working, they have a
    USB error in the DevMgr USB section. Removing and re-detecting does nothing to fix it, or any of the other problems.
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    I had the EXACT same problems with every single live cd\dvd as we did with the installed OS's.
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    I'm at the point where I'm starting to suspect one of two things or both.
    1. The Middleton bios - could be causing a problem with the interface somehow.
    Could be causing incompatibility issues. Can anyone confirm usage of this dock with that bios?
    Tried changing settings (Sata controller to "Compatible" -- USB Always on etc.) no go.
    2. The dock itself is defective. Don't have another - unable to do a replacement troubleshoot.
    I really wanted to get this working. I haven't even been able to get to the video card issue
    but need to solve the ultrabay problems first. 
    I never imagined having problems like this with the ultrabay drives being so flaky.
    I've taken numerous screen shots (in both XP and W7) of drive properties when they do work correctly
    and when they don't work correctly. Screenshots are of DevMgr, Computer\Explorer, DiskMgr etc.
    If anyone thinks that would help, I'll link or post them.
    Lastly, I've figured out a workaround to getting the hdds to work in the bay.
    I simply install them before booting\restarting and they seem to show up correctly 99% of the time. But then
    none of the optical drives will work. Conversely, trying this method with the optical drives doesn't work at all.
    Go figure. As of this time, I have absolutely no idea what makes the optical drives work.
    Thanks in advance for any help on this!

    Thank you very much for your input\response! I did clean the main interface\connector using Electo-Wash PX (Chemtronics) which did help. Before cleaning, it didn't read any drives at all. After cleaning it started reading but was very intermittent as described. I'm going to take a very close look at the connectors. Thanks again!

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