# Laptop humming slightly on light pressure?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by malthe (Pimply-Faced Youth) on Thursday, 24-Jan-2008 10:25:30

Hi,
Basically, my laptop makes a very low humming noise when you exert a slight pressure on it, like resting your hand when typing. (When I type I type on the keyboard while my wrist is under the laptop's keyboard, if that was described good enough). Then, when I remove my hand, the humming stops. It's by no means like I'm pressing down on the laptop, and I don't have particularely heavy hands either heh. It hasn't always been like this, so anyone know why this could be? It seems to mostly be on the left side, think there might be a part that's screwed up, but not sure. Haven't disassembled it yet.
Malthe.

## Post 2 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 24-Jan-2008 15:22:39

probably just a loose screw - nothing major
This happened on a machine I had once - the plastic around the screen would vibrate every time I used the cd drive - just took a crew driver to it and titened everything up - worked fine.
This is quite a big generalisation though, but with out knowing if theres anything thats unscrewable near your left hand, its the best you'll get.

## Post 3 by malthe (Pimply-Faced Youth) on Friday, 25-Jan-2008 18:11:46

Ahh ok, thanks.