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- From: tau@ee.ubc.ca (AU TRI BANG)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: motherboard buzzes when system is busy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.041609.24325@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 04:16:09 GMT
- References: <rreiner.715223216@yorku.ca> <1992Sep3.123255.1663@pt.com>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Sep3.123255.1663@pt.com> kcc@pt.com (Kevin Chalker) writes:
- >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?
- >>--
- >
- >It's probably the power supply.
-
- This also happens on my machine, a 486-25. The sound changes pitch when
- I access menus in WP5.1. It also happens when using the serial port.
-