Re: laptop causes noise when plugged in to AC - anyone else?

[cpr@musetrap.com]

I had this problem and solved it by lifting the ground pin on the  
laptop power supply... done easily with a, less than a dollar, 3->2  
prong adapter from the hardware store..

-cpr

Quoting Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>:

> This was up on the Ableton Live forum many years ago, since Ableton
> used to run very well on Windows in the pre Mac/Intel days. I've never
> had this problem myself, mostly having used Macs and probably had a
> bunch of luck with the one PC laptop I've had for audio. As I remember
> that thread most people seemed to load up there batteries before the
> gig and not use the power adapter. Everyone that had the issue
> reported that the problem disappeared on batteries. And this is the
> first time in a long time I've even heard about this problem, I
> actually thought it was history by now.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:08 PM, J Johans <parispro00@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> just curious if this is common or if im the lucky winner-
>> my dell vostro seems to dirty my power when i have it plugged in-
>> it causes my 2 fantom sound modules to emit some weird noises....its low
>> volume but stil annoying...sounds like there is a squirrel in my 
>headphones-
>> when i unplug the power adapter for the cpu...the noises go away
>> just curious if anyone else has had this problem..?
>> only pc?..
>
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