On Monday 16 February 2009, jim wrote: > i've never heard capacitors make noise and am > interested to know if that happens. my guess is > the noise is coming from a fan, either in the > power supply itself, or in the case, or on the > heatsink of the CPU, or...
The funny thing is that only some people can hear the whining sound. Only seems to be younger people (better hearing?). > odd that the noise goes away when the CPU is > busy: maybe the CPU heatsink fan smooths up when > there's heat (frame or spindle alignment changes)? Yeah, I can't figure that one out... > if the power supply breaks down, it may damage > data on your hard drive (i've seen multiple > lost+found directories nested because of the > jitters of a dying power supply--a big mess to > recover). OK. Hopefully the new one is on the way! Dylan > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:25 -0800, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My powersupply (I think) is making a deafening whining, reminiscent of a > > capacitor on its last legs. I notice that when the CPU is busy, the whine > > goes away. > > > > Any clues on what could be causing this besides a faulty power supply? I > > have ordered a new one just in case. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech