What is that obnoxious sound that my computer makes intermitently? Cracking high pitch noise?

I have an HP Pavilion DV6 Notebook. When idle, it makes a high pitch cracking sound that seems to be coming form the lower right of the keyboard. I can't stand it. How do I turn it off!????

Hi nicca90,
What type of computer do you have? Is it a Mac or PC? Does it have USB2?
Try the general USB connection troubleshooting tips in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1286
If the iPod touch is not recognized on your PC, try the tips in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1852
If your iPod touch is not recognized on your Mac, try the tips in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2050
-Jason

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increase heat and fan activity
Activity monitor
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1473
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Originally posted by frank2036
But ya, when I run my PC, the tone of the buzzing changes when I'm doing something, like HDD activity, launching a program, anytime I do something it changes the pitch.
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Message Edited by jbernar6 on 08-06-2009 10:43 AM
Message Edited by jbernar6 on 08-06-2009 10:44 AM
I should add, I did a very lax search of this topic, but my post also addresses other questions. Don't hate me. I understand forum etiquitte more than anyone, it's just I didn't have time. I needed quick answers bc of my school situation.
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Message Edited by jbernar6 on 08-06-2009 10:21 PM

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I know there is a lot of forum posts on the internet about this, as I've spent about two days reading them (primarily from my iPhone as my screen sound drives me up the wall).
As some people have experienced, this is a result of changing the brightness (0% and 100% are fine, anything in between emits a high pitched whine...some people believe this is a result of the capacitors vibrating at around 15-16Hz, which would make sense).
I have actually gone through four separate iMacs in a week to try to fix this problem (and two being upgrades over the model I had in hopes of a different production run). I have checked the serial number on all of them and they were all build between September and October, at various weeks between, mostly within a 4 week window.
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