Screaming Laptop!?!? L500/025

Hi,
My laptop (Satellite L500/25) occasionally makes this extremely loud, high pitched noise. The first time this happened was about a month ago, when I was turning it on. Nothing I could do to stop the sound as the laptop was loading up except force shutdown. It happened again today, but much softer when I was playing music on Windows Media Player and changing output from headphones to speaker. This time the sound decreased when I decreased the speaker volume...
Anyone know what's going wrong and how to fix this?

Satellite L500-1R0 (PSLS0E-06901TPL)
As I said above, it sounds like a hardware malfunction. But can't hurt to reinstall the audio driver.
   Realtek Sound Driver for Windows 7 - 64 Bit, 6.0.1.5904, 02/12/09
-Jerry

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