Linux-Hardware Digest #689, Volume #12 Sat, 15 Apr 00 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Printer, HP DeskJet 930C (Henrik Becker)
Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work! (Dances With Crows)
Re: K7V, KA7, etc with ECC memory? (Neil Nelson)
Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question (Dances With Crows)
Cannot run Linux with K6-2 (Jules)
SAFE brand UPS serial interface/control questions (Leland Hosford)
Re: SB AWE64 (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: CPU makes buzz noise (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: SAFE brand UPS serial interface/control questions (Prasanth Kumar)
Ethernet card SN5100TX? (Dajedi)
Re: SiS 6326 AGP Video Card Problems (Dajedi)
Need Technical Specifications about... ("Stormbringer")
SIIG ULTRA 66 PCI uses which chipset? (arun tharuvai)
Re: Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation ("Larry Ebbitt ")
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? (Rod Smith)
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Screen size? (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work! (HELP!)
Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use ("JP")
Re: CPU makes buzz noise (Mirko Mazzoli)
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer, HP DeskJet 930C
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:14:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johansen, Harald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to buy the new HP DeskJet 930C printer. Has anyone had any
> success using this printer under Linux? If yes, which driver did you
> use, etc?
Got it - love it. Great under Linux, use the dj550 driver, is fairly ok,
supports 600x600 and uses too much ink. but still ok.
For great performance start win95 from a 1 Gig partition and print using the
normal win drivers.
Read somewhere about HP developing drivers for linux.
All in all: I love my 930 - under Linux!
--
Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.HenrikBecker.de
support FREE SOFTWARE www.KDE.org www.WINDOWMAKER.org www.LINUX.org
dt. J-Pilot Handbuch fertig: http://www.henrikbecker.de/jpilot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work!
Date: 15 Apr 2000 13:12:37 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:45:19 GMT, HELP!
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth
>I had a 1.6 gig which was working fine, but I removed it and put
>in an 8.2 gig. I fdisked it and such but I get an error saying there is
>a problem with it and forces me to single mode. What do I need to do to
>get this working? Using Slack 7.0 Note: I also have my 3.5 gig
>which the OS is one and it works fine.
fdisk, even if it goes completely berserk, should not force you into
single-user mode. "there is a problem" is about as non-specific and
unhelpful as things could get--please post the exact error message that
fdisk gives you. If it's the "the number of cylinders on this disk is >
1024..." message, no worries; this is normal with large disks and should
not hurt Linux at all.
Make sure the disk is being seen by the BIOS at startup if this is an IDE
disk (you didn't say whether it was IDE or SCSI!) Make sure the
translation mode is set to "AUTO", as this will provide the best results.
Make sure that "EZ-Drive" or anything silly like that is not installed on
the disk; Linux doesn't need help dealing with large disks.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Neil Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: K7V, KA7, etc with ECC memory?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:16:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard wrote:
[ Any of you guys running the new (VIA KX133) boards with ECC memory
[ (and with ECC enabled in BIOS)?
The following is quoted from www.amd.com/support/faqs/athlonfaqs.html.
> Question: My memory has all the requirements listed above, but it
> also has ECC (Error Correction Code). Is that a good thing?
> Answer: ECC is an excellent function for memory, but it is of no ad-
> vantage for your new AMD Athlon processor-based system. In fact, it
> may slow down the performance of your new system. You may want to
> consider using memory that is not ECC.
Neil Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question
Date: 15 Apr 2000 13:27:55 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:53:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<%n%J4.53900$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>It's IDE/ATAPI. After posting, I reread the CD-Writing Howto :) and also
>found the README.ATPI for X-CD-Roast. In there, I found the reference to the
>boot/lilo command you noted below. What I had been unsure of, and which
>you've addressed, is whether all the modules noted on page 9 of the HowTo
>needed to be loaded. It appears from your response that the answer is yes.?
>Should show ide_scsi, scsi_mod, and sg
>>Does the boot log say that your CD-RW is registered with
>>the ATAPI CD-ROM driver?
>Yes, this is what was happening. So, my mounting in the drive was an already
>written CD which, I assume got mounted as read only, seeing the burner as an
>ide read only drive.
Immediately after you try to access your CD-RW after bootup, the output of
dmesg should say something like
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
...and that means that the SCSI emulation is working.
You cannot mount a blank CD-R in any way; all writing is done to the raw
device /dev/sg0.
>Overall, I have this observation. While I'm new to burning CDs in Linux (but
>not "alien systems ;), I've about a year's experience with Red Hat, moving
>from 5.2 up now to 6.2, and am reasonably capable at most workstation and home
>network tasks. I found sorting through the documentation for this bit of
>configuration to be amongst the most difficult that I've encountered. I would
>suppose that for new, Intel, PCI/IDE hardware, the solution I found would be
>most common and could be captured in a four sentence mini-HOWTO. What do you
>think?
Oh yes. I've been telling people to do a Deja search on keyword "CD-R"
and author /me, but that's not a good long-term solution. I'll contact
the CD-Writing-Howto maintainer, see if he'll put a 4-step piece of advice
early on called "The Most Common Case..." explaining about the ide-scsi
thing and how modern distros include the ide-scsi, scsi_mod, sr_mod, and
sg pieces by default... I hope your experience will help others out!
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Jules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot run Linux with K6-2
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:25:17 GMT
I recently upgraded my old 430 TX mobo (MSI 5156) with an AMD K6-2 450
which I underclocked at 6 x 66. It runs fine under WIN98. But I was
unable to run Mandrake install or tombsrt. I went back installing my
old Pentium MMX 166 and I was able to install Mandrake without any pb.
I recompiled the kernel. I tried again with the AMD K6-2 and I get the
following error:
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: V1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress 1800018
current-> tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
What is going on ?
Any suggestion would be appreciated
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Leland Hosford <NOSPAM!HosfordL@NOT!home.com>
Subject: SAFE brand UPS serial interface/control questions
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:57:12 GMT
I have an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that was made by SAFE (a
company I can't seem to find any more). Other than needing to replace
the batteries a few years ago, I've used the UPS without problems for
about 12 years now.
The UPS has a serial port that supplies status information about the UPS
but I have never previously tried to use it. I would like to find out
how to connect that serial port to my Linux box and have software, that
uses the information it provides, to cleanly shut down before the power
shuts off.
So, does anyone know anything about what happened to the SAFE UPS
company?
Or, does anyone have the specifications of the serial port for my UPS
(SAFE model # S001-85025-01, 500A) and Linux compatible software for
using the information it provides to shut down cleanly?
--
Remove "NOSPAM!" and "NOT!" from my address to send me e-mail.
Leland Hosford, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
http://members.home.net/hosfordl/
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB AWE64
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:02:35 GMT
Cihl wrote:
>
> Hi, (-politeness phrase added automatically-)
>
> Does anyone know how to make midi playback work in kernel
> 2.3.99-pre4 on a Soundblaster AWE64?
> It's an IsaPnP card, and normal sound (mp3s and system
> sounds) works fine, without any additional configuration
> apart from the kernel recompile.
>
> Here's some bootup info:
>
> isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
> isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
> ISAPnP: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
> isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:02
> isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
> isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
>
> And a little further down the list:
>
> ISAPnP reports AWE64 WaveTable at i/o 0x620
> <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
> 1993-1996
> sb: Creative SB AWE64 PnP detected
> sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq
> 5, dma 1, 5
>
> I can't figure out what's wrong with this, or why it isn't
> working at all! Can anybody *please* help me?
>
> --
> % make fire
> Don't know how to make fire
> % Why not?
> No match
This is what my /etc/conf.modules file has in RedHat Linux:
# sound support via soundblaster modules sb and awe_wave
alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU makes buzz noise
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:05:03 GMT
Mirko Mazzoli wrote:
>
> while doing almost anything (eg moving the mouse, accessing the hds,
> transferring data with the modem) a buzz noise comes from the cpu.
> i'm sure it's the cpu (or its socket) because i physically umplugged
> almost everything else (even the hard drives) and the noise kept coming,
> so i took away the mb from the box to hear better and it really seems
> that the cpu is the problem.
>
> i can only guess it's a problem with the interrupts, maybe a conflict,
> but beside this i'm clueless... any idea?
>
> ps: i have an AMD K6-2 400 MHz, mounted on a Soyo SY-5EHM v1.0
> motherboard with a ETEQ 82C6638AT/6629 AGP chipset
Could it be the cpu fan or the powersupply fan? Another source, though
probably no it you case is that the HALT instruction Linux uses to save
power can cause noise in nearby speakers. You can disable it with the
NO_HLT instruction on LILO.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAFE brand UPS serial interface/control questions
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:09:20 GMT
Leland Hosford wrote:
>
> I have an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that was made by SAFE (a
> company I can't seem to find any more). Other than needing to replace
> the batteries a few years ago, I've used the UPS without problems for
> about 12 years now.
>
> The UPS has a serial port that supplies status information about the UPS
> but I have never previously tried to use it. I would like to find out
> how to connect that serial port to my Linux box and have software, that
> uses the information it provides, to cleanly shut down before the power
> shuts off.
>
> So, does anyone know anything about what happened to the SAFE UPS
> company?
>
> Or, does anyone have the specifications of the serial port for my UPS
> (SAFE model # S001-85025-01, 500A) and Linux compatible software for
> using the information it provides to shut down cleanly?
There is some generic UPS software for Linux you can look for which are
fairly configurable. What you do is connect the UPS to the serial port
but don't power the system off the UPS. Then you run some test software
within the UPS package and start doing various things to the UPS to see
how the affects the serial port. This information is used to form the
configuration files. This won't let you use the fancy features of the
UPS
but the basic shutdown/wakeup stuff.
>
> --
> Remove "NOSPAM!" and "NOT!" from my address to send me e-mail.
> Leland Hosford, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
> http://members.home.net/hosfordl/
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dajedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet card SN5100TX?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:21:08 +0200
How can i get this card to work?
I use SuSE 6.2
thanks.
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From: Dajedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 AGP Video Card Problems
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:28:14 +0200
QuestionExchange wrote:
>
> the SIS cards are very good at NOT working with linux however
> you can get them to work with some tweaking (they still dont
> work well though) your best bet would be to upgrade to mandrake
> 7 or XF86 4.0 and you shouldnt have any prblems at all with the
> SIS card
> otherwise you will have to manually edit the XF86Config file IF
> YOU DO THIS HAVE FUN :)
>
> --
> This answer is courtesy of QuestionExchange.com
>
>http://www.questionexchange.com/servlet3/qx.usenetGuest.showUsenetGuest?ans_id=12838&cus_id=USENET
it works very fine with SuSE 6.2
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From: "Stormbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Technical Specifications about...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:30:39 GMT
...either the Canon LBP-8IIIR Printer or PCL5 because I plan to write a
Ghostscript device-driver myself to support the Canon LBP-8III printer
family under Linux.
Could anybody please help me?
Thanx!
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:36:19 -0400
From: arun tharuvai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SIIG ULTRA 66 PCI uses which chipset?
Does anyone here know what chipset the SIIG ultra ata 66 pci
uses? I'm trying to figure out whether linux (2.2.14, including patches)
supports and would rather return it unopened if it isn't usable
at ultra 66 speeds.
Thanks,
Arun
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From: "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:09:33 +0800, Simian wrote:
>Attempted to install Red Hat 6.1 on a PC containing an adaptec AHA-1520B and
>a Pioneer DR- U16S.
The AHA1520B is specifically listed as not supported on the
Red Hat hardware list. The non-PNP version (without the B) is
OK. I just had the same problem.
Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:52:05 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I recently bought a Lexmark OptraColor 40. It is network PS printer and
> supports Linux/Unix as well as windows. It work great for both systems
> for me. Check www.buy.com clearance page. When I bought it was $94 (new)
> compared to more than $300 in stores.
It's now $84.95 with free shipping. The web page claims 284 are still
available. I bought one a week ago. The main caveat is that you'll pay a
lot on memory and supplies. As a PostScript printer, this thing needs
lots of RAM. It comes with 4MB, which is adequate for text or line art,
but not for something like a full-page printout of a graphics file (say,
a photo from a digital camera). Crucial was slow in filling my order, so I
still don't have my SIMM. :-( Print cartridges are also pricey -- $25-$45,
depending on which cartridge and from what dealer.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Uses Less Power?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:27:59 +0000
"rdg" means "reading", and "lsd" means "Least Significant Digit".
Hope that explains it!
Regards, Jim
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Screen size?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:31:11 +0000
Run "Xconfigurator" from a root xterm window, and adjust it to your
preferences. Sounds like you have enough "horsepower" in your card and
monitor to easily get what you wanr.
Regards, Jim
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From: HELP! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work!
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:38:57 GMT
All I want to do is replace one drive with another - how do I do this? There are no
problems with the drive, the OS, or anything else - I am just not doing something
right.
>From what I see it is just not set up right and still has the settings in place for
>the
old drive, so when I boot it is not recognizing the new drive and as such asks if I
want
to go into single mode to fix the problem. I figured that advance users would be
familiar
with my problem when I said I was adding a new drive and as such would know the error
messages I was getting.
So having said this, what steps do I need to do to replace my one IDE with another IDE?
Are there any special commands I need to run, scripts that need editing, or something
else.
Thanks for the help.
On 15 Apr 2000 13:12:37 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:45:19 GMT, HELP!
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth
>>I had a 1.6 gig which was working fine, but I removed it and put
>>in an 8.2 gig. I fdisked it and such but I get an error saying there is
>>a problem with it and forces me to single mode. What do I need to do to
>>get this working? Using Slack 7.0 Note: I also have my 3.5 gig
>>which the OS is one and it works fine.
>
>fdisk, even if it goes completely berserk, should not force you into
>single-user mode. "there is a problem" is about as non-specific and
>unhelpful as things could get--please post the exact error message that
>fdisk gives you. If it's the "the number of cylinders on this disk is >
>1024..." message, no worries; this is normal with large disks and should
>not hurt Linux at all.
>
>Make sure the disk is being seen by the BIOS at startup if this is an IDE
>disk (you didn't say whether it was IDE or SCSI!) Make sure the
>translation mode is set to "AUTO", as this will provide the best results.
>Make sure that "EZ-Drive" or anything silly like that is not installed on
>the disk; Linux doesn't need help dealing with large disks.
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:58:02 GMT
Thanks, one more question though:
What do you use as the "base" station? On their web site it looks like
there are a few options:
ORINOCO Ethernet & Serial Converter (Formerly WaveLAN Ethernet/Serial
Converter)
or
ORINOCO RG-1000 Residential Gateway
There are a few others but these two look like they're meant for small
networks. I just picked up a copy of PC Magazine that reviews a few of
these and they say that they used thw WavePoint-II access point which is
~$1000. The Ethernet & Serial Converter looks to go for about $400 so if it
will do I'd really like to save the 600 bucks.
RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi JP,
>
> I run the Lucent ORINOCO products in exactly the environment that you're
> looking at. The cards are _all_ PCMCIA. To use them in a desktop system
> there is a simple ISA adapter that accepts the PC card NIC. ORINOCO
> support for Linux is very good (still known as Wavelan at the driver
> level).
>
> I have a Linux box in the basement with a wireless card and 100Mbit link
to
> the rest of my network. I set my laptop to use the Linux box as the
router
> and voila, wireless Internet from anywhere around my house (outside too).
>
> I bought the NIC's for $160 a piece at techstore.com.
>
> Regards,
> RJ
>
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From: Mirko Mazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU makes buzz noise
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:01:47 GMT
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> Mirko Mazzoli wrote:
> >
> > while doing almost anything (eg moving the mouse, accessing the hds,
> > transferring data with the modem) a buzz noise comes from the cpu.
> > i'm sure it's the cpu (or its socket) because i physically umplugged
> > almost everything else (even the hard drives) and the noise kept coming,
> > so i took away the mb from the box to hear better and it really seems
> > that the cpu is the problem.
> >
> > i can only guess it's a problem with the interrupts, maybe a conflict,
> > but beside this i'm clueless... any idea?
> >
> > ps: i have an AMD K6-2 400 MHz, mounted on a Soyo SY-5EHM v1.0
> > motherboard with a ETEQ 82C6638AT/6629 AGP chipset
>
> Could it be the cpu fan or the powersupply fan? Another source, though
> probably no it you case is that the HALT instruction Linux uses to save
> power can cause noise in nearby speakers. You can disable it with the
> NO_HLT instruction on LILO.
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unfortunately is none of these...
i already tried stopping the fan (and even changing it actually), but the
noise persists... the speaker is the first thing that i suspected but i
disconnected it too, so it's not...
and the noise only comes if i move the mouse/receive data from the
modem/access disks/etc., not when the cpu is idle/halted, therefore i think it
has something to do with interrupts
thx anyway
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