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- From: kcc@pt.com (Kevin Chalker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: motherboard buzzes when system is busy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.123255.1663@pt.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:32:55 GMT
- References: <rreiner.715223216@yorku.ca>
- Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
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- In article <rreiner.715223216@yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes:
- >A friend's Tiawanese-clone 386-33 motherboard makes very distinct and
- >varied buzzes whenever the system is not idle. The sounds are
- >unrelated to disk activity, and they seem to be louder on warm days.
- >They sound something like very quiet hard disk noises (but that is not
- >what they are -- I've checked very carefully). The sounds appear to be
- >coming from the mainboard itself, and seem to be related to bus activity.
- >
- >I've never heard anything like this before. Has anyone else?
- >--
- >Richard Reiner........rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca........416-538-3947
- >
- >Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
- > -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_.
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- It's probably the power supply.
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