I seem to have a problem with my monitor, whenever I run a program in fullscreen mode, it continually emit's high pitch noises. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Don't run any fullscreen programs.
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
wow, what a great solution! I'm such an idiot for not thinking of it!
Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :
Knock down your resolution (refresh "frequency")
Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :
Have you tried putting on some music and turning up the volume?
Or using ear plugs?
Or (seriously) changing the refresh rate (under Control Panel --> Dispaly)? Don't know if that will help but some monitors perform best at a particular refresh rate; LCD monitors are more picky about refresh rates than CRT's
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Is there something else, I've always had it on this mode and never had a problem, and there's only one lower rate, and I hate it, it gives me a headache.
[ October 08, 2004, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: MEC ]
Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :
Refresh Rate, not Resolution
You might have to look under an "Advanced" settings button to find it and the rates will be listed as 60Hz, 70Hz, 72Hz, 75Hz...
(now you've gone and changed your post! what was I saying?)
[ October 09, 2004, 12:02 AM: Message edited by: DSH ]
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
sorry, i was using the wrong terminalogy, i changed my post so it makes more sense.
Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :
If adjusting the refresh rate doesn't help and you don't want to change the resolution you normaly operate at (which probably wouldn't help anyway) see if you can change the resolution that the specific program runs at during full screen mode. This would require digging through all of the options in each specific program.
Hey! I just thought of a great alternative to ear plugs: Put your monitor in a vacuum chamber (like a big glass bell jar) and pump out all of the air. No air, no sound!!!
OK, now I'm out of ideas. Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
Thing is... that whine's not a good sound for a monitor to be making. How old is this one?
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
about a week.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
A week? Go to the store and replace it!
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I ordered it online.
I have another computer related question though, it seems that verizon was advertizing that they could offer me dsl (at their website not tv) and when I ordered it a few days later they tell me that it's unavailable where I live. However, it is available across the street. Can someone explain to me what is happening?
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Man...you should replace the Monitor anyway...even if you bought it online they should replace it.
About the broadband...I have the same problem over here. Glad to know it's not a third-world only issue, hehe. People in my own street, 1 block from where I live, already have broadband. But...not me. Go figure.
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
MEC: Go to the web site where you bought it, and look for RMA forms. Definitely return that monitor.
As for why DSL is available across the street but not at your place, it has to do with how the signal travels across telephone wires. The signal degrades over a distance; you'll probably find that the folks across the street only have the slowest DSL packaages available.
[ October 09, 2004, 08:50 PM: Message edited by: Bekenn ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Hi...My name is Bob...and my monitor whines too.
Actually, this is an old monitor that died once before and I had it repaired. That was 3 years ago. The thing is at least 8 years old. It's been great, but it is definitely dying.
It gets wavy lines sometimes and I have to shut it off and turn it back on repeatedly just to get a picture back on it.
The whine is the first symptom I've experienced when monitors slowly die. It is not a good sign. I think it's a power supply thing. Or the electrons are leaking out of the tube, like air through the end of a balloon when you hold it tightly, you know?
Soon, all you'll have is the whine and some stray flashes of brightness on the screen.
Seriously, why would that happen in full screen mode, but not other (normal) modes of operation???
My guess (and it's just a guess) is that the power supply is getting overloaded somehow.
Is there a lot of black background on the full screen mode? Those black electrons are very heavy and take a lot of energy to shoot at the screen with precision.
the only real way to cure this is to paint part of the screen black so your monitor knows it doesn't have to use that part.
Hitting it with a hammer works, but only if your monitor is a US-made brand. Other country's monitors don't like to be hit. You should lick their contacts instead.
[ October 09, 2004, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:I have another computer related question though, it seems that verizon was advertizing that they could offer me dsl (at their website not tv) and when I ordered it a few days later they tell me that it's unavailable where I live. However, it is available across the street. Can someone explain to me what is happening?
I tried for a very long time to get DSL through my telephone company. Repeatedly they told me over the phone and on the website that the service was available, but when the installation date came and went, I had no service. Each time they would only tell me that it wasn't available. So then when I'd get mail advertising from another company (who was renting bandwidth and hardware from the phone company), I'd call again and go through it all over again. The third time was it for me and I called the cable company instead.
About two weeks after my cable installation, I received a "quality control" call from a company on behalf of the phone/DSL service, wanting to make sure that everything was in good working order. HAH!!!! When I told THAT guy what had transpired, he put me on hold and patched in a tech supervisor from the phone company who finally told me that the issue was the type of wiring in my town. My entire town is wired with copper, and DSL requires fiber optic (or do I have that backwards???). The only way for ANYBODY in my town to get DSL would be for the phone company to come out and completely rewire everything. Obviously that isn't happening anytime soon!
Anyhow, that's probably why your neighbor across the street can get DSL and you can't. You've probably got incompatible wiring and the two of you are on different switches.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Yep, got it backwards. Good ol' analogue is a lot better for carrying large amounts of information without interfering with existing information transfer.
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
If you lower the refresh rate it can help with the noise...though lower refresh rates can bug some people's eyes. I can't stand anything under 75.
Of course this is just a bandage...it will likely start up again at the lower refresh rate as the monitor ages (as you mentioned...it used to work fine at the current refresh rate). I'd strongly recommend getting the monitor replaced even though you got it online. It is not a good sign that it has started after only a week.
As for DSL, it is very picky. It is not unheard of that it works across the street, but not at your place. I'd advise getting cable high speed internet though you cable company.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
The most common cause of it not working across the street is not a slight increase in distance along the same lines, but that one side of the street is wired into one CO and the other side is wired into another (the COs are where DSL distance is measured from).
But yes, DSL does require pretty specific requirements.
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