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The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.

Too bad the manufacturer wasn't named; I quckly looked through a few laptop schematics from that era and didn't find anything that stood out as being a notch filter.

You wouldn't see it on the schematics, it's in the driver.

I imagine that it would also be quite difficult to realize such a narrow filter in hardware, 90 Hz is already quite low.

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