New User Monitor Problems

[pranaearth]

Hello All,
I feel like such a idiot for asking, as I have been in and out of recording studios for the better part of my life. However, it was always as a performer for other peoples projects. I have gotten into doing my own music and have bought myself a small studio. (Well, building it over the past 7 years is more like it.) I finally finished all the major purchases. The problem I am having is my monitors pick up all the internal movement sounds of my laptop and mouse. I have a Dell Inspiron 9100. I have the Wharfedale 8.2 Active monitors. The right monitor was making the noises, so I switched the power plug to another unit. Now, the left monitor is making the noise. I am very confused. My power cables are seperated from my audio cables. The monitors are on a different power strip than the transformer for my laptop. Any seasoned people have any ideas that can help me out? Thank you so very very much.

Prana

[TexRoadkill]

Try putting all the power on the same powerstrip. Are you using the laptop's sound card? If so you should ugrade to a good external card ASAP. Internal cards are much more prone to pick up noise from the computer.

[mattamatta]

I had that happening for a while too.... Never figured out why.

But it works now because I have a new motherboard.... because the old one appears to have had a capacitor litteraly explode..... it just got more and more wierd, and then finally wouldn't boot.

So maybe it was the mobo, cuz I have the same setup and pci sound card as I did before.