New gaming laptop and Steam buzzing/static sound when scrolling in steam

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

I just bought a new gaming laptop, I get a really faint yet distracting static/buzzing sound from the speakers when i scroll within Steam. Only other place this is happening so far is in the game Gunfire reborn but the noise there is louder and constant and more with crackles too. Even if I have the head phone jack plugged with my headphones. I tried other games and this doesn't happen. I tried updating the drivers and it didn't fix anything. I disabled the audio devices and mute but the sounds still persist.
Anyone know what could be causing it?
seems maybe it's steam related or maybe steam and that game have some weird function?
The laptop is Dell G5 5515 Ryzen edition

[Carlsberg]

It may be caused by nvidia audio, try reinstalling/updating gpu drivers.

[Illusion of Progress]

Since you say this persists with sound disabled, i am presuming this isn't audio coming from the speakers.

Is there perhaps some coil whine occurring?

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

It may be caused by nvidia audio, try reinstalling/updating gpu drivers.

it's up to date

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

Since you say this persists with sound disabled, i am presuming this isn't audio coming from the speakers.

Is there perhaps some coil whine occurring?

Not sure tbh, the scrolling sounds aren't happening every time now anymore, they seem to appear when i haven't scrolled in a while and disappears after scrolling for a while but it started happening in google chrome too
so this is a laptop problem?

Gunfire reborn issue with sounds is gone now. Not getting it anymore, I don't know how. I am sure I didn't uninstall/install anything

well I did download and install CSGO myabe the direct x and redistributables that come with it fixed it?

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Fans are probably rubbing on something. Hair or paper or something got sucked up in there.

[Agent]

Had the same electrical buzz noise come from my power supply. I just returned it and got a replacement since it's under a 10 year warranty.

You might want to open up the case and listen in where exactly the sound is coming from.

[shoopy]

If it's from your speakers, it could be microphonic coil whine. Speaker wires can some times act like an antenna that will pick up vibrations, so if the frequency is just right, it can pick up coil whine from another part of a computer as if it were a microphone.

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

Originally posted by The Hardware ʬhisperer:

Fans are probably rubbing on something. Hair or paper or something got sucked up in there.

I don’t think so since it happens only when I scroll with the mouse wheel

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

Originally posted by ardiel:

If it's from your speakers, it could be microphonic coil whine. Speaker wires can some times act like an antenna that will pick up vibrations, so if the frequency is just right, it can pick up coil whine from another part of a computer as if it were a microphone.

That seems like a reasonable cause, since I have a Logitech wireless mouse dongle plugged in the USB port maybe that has the same frequency. I’ll try a wired or Bluetooth one and see if it still happens

[Dr. Sol Fidei]

Originally posted by Cpt. Moe Lester:

Originally posted by ardiel:

If it's from your speakers, it could be microphonic coil whine. Speaker wires can some times act like an antenna that will pick up vibrations, so if the frequency is just right, it can pick up coil whine from another part of a computer as if it were a microphone.

That seems like a reasonable cause, since I have a Logitech wireless mouse dongle plugged in the USB port maybe that has the same frequency. I’ll try a wired or Bluetooth one and see if it still happens

I tried it and yeah idk, the sound from speakers when scrolling still noticeable even with cable or bluetooth
The touchpad doesn't cause any sounds when scrolling
very interesting

[_I_]

headset buzzing is often ground loop problems
is it plugged into anything other than the power brick?
does it stop when you unplug the brick?

[Illusion of Progress]

I think it's some sort of electrical interference issue.

I had an old (socket 478/mid-Pentium 4 days) motherboard that would exhibit could whine by moving the mouse cursor... Yes, THIS mere act caused the VRM area on the motherboard (area between CPU and rear I/O) to exhibit squealing. It was incredibly minor and you would only notice it if you had the board close to you, and it wasn't a primary/daily use PC anyway, so it wasn't a problem for me, but I did find it interesting. It was the only motherboard I ever had that did that.

I have, however, dealt with coil whine on "newer" GPUs (GTX 970 was awful to the point I couldn't use it and gave up trying to upgrade to it, and GTX 1060 exhibited a bit).

Whether it's simply moving a cursor or scrolling, something is reacting to the change within the PC and it sounds like you are hearing that sound directly, or being passed on through interference out the speaker.

[_I_]

coil whine is from choke coils in the psu, gpu, mobo
different combos of components can cause the whine, switching freq/voltage
gpu/cpu load can cause it to change volume/frequency

nothing you can really do about it, rma is very unlikely unless its really bad and can take a vid of it as proof of the component


laptop coil whine is also unlikely since they are much lower power draw and packed full of components that would muffle the sound, and add on fans that make noise also


its more likely to be a fan or ground loop causnig the buzzing noise in the laptop