Quite electric noises (maybe active SSD usage on system idle)

[balko]

@marmarek

You may want to try xen package from testing repository, specifically this update: vmm-xen v4.14.5-17 (r4.1) · Issue #3531 · QubesOS/updates-status · GitHub
It has “Intel HWP” support included, which may help here. But as usual with testing package, you may hit some issues. If needed, downgrading back to previous version is described on the same documentation page.

Thanks. With this message do you mean that noise comes from fan, or how HWP can be involded?
I still expect the reason to be an unnecessary SSD activity during idle, so is there a way to check disk activity (reading/writing) on Qubes OS?

@Litter_Box

Had something like this happen on an old thinkpad. Strange electric noises would happen as the computer worked on something. It was troublesome to boot (only booted like 50% of the time). Then it stopped booting altogether. I’m guessing a cap failed on the motherboard or something. Tried swapping ram sticks, but that did nothing. It’s now a brick.

I have this on old Macbook Pro Retina (my HCL report) on any GNU/Linux and it still works fine. I am not sure if it is a defect or not.