W510 annoying humming / buzzing / whining sound fixed!

In another post, someone diagnosed the issue for this annoying whining noise that comes from the rear left of the machine as the backlight component of the screen and suggested a connection to the NVidia driver for the NVidia Quadro FX 880M that is an option on the W510.
After going to the Nvidia site and downloading their latest WQHL driver for Win 7 x64, the noise is gone. Lenovo does not have this driver on their website. The download also contains a driver update for the Nvidia audio which I also installed. Although this is not definitive, the sound is gone. Good luck.

This is facinating information Peter, thanks for this.
Interestingly, the noise has appeared on my system again, (after not being there since my 3rd and most recent system board replacement)...  And now that you mention it, I was running the NVidia drivers for a few weeks because of the fact StarCraft2 was crashing the PC repeatedly...  I installed the OLD drivers (aka, official Lenovo drivers) and the noise is back with a vengance....  I hadn't made the correlation until you mention it.
It's really too bad Lenovo maintains a full year gap from NVidia's latest drivers.

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