Satellite A20-S103 - crackling noise with new HDD

Hello together
I upgraded my A20-S103 laptop with a Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250 GB hard drive running under Windows XP Pro.
Since then I have problems with the sound and the mouse movement when the CPU usage is high.
Lets say up to 50 % usage everything works fine but above I have cracking noise and the mouse sticks and makes jumping movements.
The drivers and the BIOS are updated to the latest Toshiba versions online.
After some time and alot of search I got also the hard drive running in DMA mode with the ALI IDE4008.exe tool so it is not that the hard drive is running in PIO mode.
Further I think that the hard drive speed is low when the CPU usage is high.
Please read also http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=89990&#89990 which is showing I am not the only one with this problem.
Does anybody knows a solution?

I agree with Akuma. You should try to update the BIOS and the chipset drivers and see if it works or not.
It worth a try ;)
Both you can find here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download Drivers

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