Chirping Dell Latitude Laptop

[spleenforsoul]

For some reason my laptop has been making chirping sounds when ever it is plugged into the adaptor charging up. It doesn't do it all the time, just when ever it wants I guess. It's a new adaptor too, because Dell had a recall on the adaptor I previously had. It's just a plain Dell Latitude, Pentium 4, Designed for WinXP, 512MB of RAM. It only recently started doing this a day ago. I defrag, I use Zone Alarm to clean things out, have Ad-Aware, Spybot, PeerGuardian. Also I have a little laptop kind of table thing, so it doesn't overheat and it can always "breathe". Just wondering why it's chirping, or what's causing it.

[mairving]

Never seen or heard one do that. Did a cricket crawl inside it? Actually it could be the hard drive that is doing the chirping. You would hear it more while it is charging because the hard drive generally doesn't power down on charge mode like it does on battery.

[spleenforsoul]

I didn't send the old recalled adaptor back to Dell. So I plugged that in instead of the new adaptor that Dell sent to replace the recalled one to charge my laptop. And the chirping stopped. I don't really know what to do here because they were recalled for setting on fire but the replacement one I was sent just recently started to make my laptop chirp. Should I call up Dell?

[thefultonhow]

Yes. Even if your computer isn't under warranty there is a chance that the AC adaptor will be.

[spleenforsoul]

Okay, called up Dell. They said they can't help me because of something to do with transfer of ownership. This is a used laptop, I have no idea who owned it previously. They didn't even know that Dell had a recall on adaptors. I'm really stuck.

[spleenforsoul]

Help??

[Alaron]

If Dell won't give you one, you can still pick up a replacement adapter.

You didn't provide a model number, but the Dell website has numerous adapters: http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?...+power+adapter

[wdrzal]

check the levels you have the low battery alarm set at.