XPS 13 whistling hiss of motherboard

Someone else with a Dell XPS 13 hears a whistle/whistle noise that changes frequency at random? It's very embarrassing for me. A Dell technician has replaced the mobo and disconnected the screen, battery, keyboard backlighting, speakers and disc, so noise should come from the mobo. He told me that probably all XPS 13 s make this noise, but I can't believe I'm the first person to be driven crazy by it. Is not very strong, and if the fan is running it masks it. But in the middle of the night without the fan turns, it is very obvious and boring even from a few meters more far.

So far the Dell told me: "these steps should solve your problem" and connected to a massive thread on ALSA on ubuntuforums, who said to try a million different things. (I did, nothing solved the problem). (it's a Sputnik, but the noise is there in the bios, so it has nothing to do with linux). Interestingly, I hear not the sound while the diagnostics are running.

They also said: "We are working on an issue that seems similar to what you have." But for the moment not responded to my request for more details.

I have a Dell XPS 13 Haswell, and he also whistles. It's worse with the backlight on the keypad is on. It is also triggered by some trendy 3 USB products.

I have a USB hub 3.0 Anker plugged as a sort of dock, so now the machine whistles constantly. It is very annoying.

I suspect that the problem is due to electromagnetic interference (EMI), which could possibly be solved by better protecting.

The potential for USB 3 causes of EMI is well known. Intel has a white paper on this subject:

http://www.Intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/USB3-frequency-interference-paper.PDF

Dell should know better.

In particular, it ruins sitting in a quiet room with laptop computer, where all you can here is portable computer whistling destructive development.

I expected more of a computer laptop premium and will conduct the review to buy another Dell in the future if it is not resolved.

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