Squeeky noise as cursor moves over dock

All of a sudden, anytime my cursor moves over the dock a squeeky, almost static like noise, comes fromt the speakers -- speaker volume does not affect the volume of the noise -- always rather low -- speed of the cursor does affect the frequency of the noise. There doesn't seem to be any noise associated with other movement or activity - just the cursor on the dock.

Any suggestions?

G4, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 16, 2006 12:59 PM

16 replies

Mar 20, 2006 4:04 PM in response to WWJD

I remember all of the posts about it. Fortunately I had always used a usb solution to sound recording and had none of the internal issues.

Neither did I have a squeeling power supply.

My suspicion is that some power supplies had inferior or faulty parts that caused the problem because not everyone had the issues. If it were truly a design issue it should have happened on all macs. My recollection is that Apple had its hands full for a while with professional sound people hopping mad at their noisy macs.

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