On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, David E. Young wrote:
> Greetings. First, the hardware particulars; Athlon 1400, 512mb, nVidia TNT2
> 16mb, ViewSonic A90f, Redhat 7.2, XFree86 4.x (whatever shipped with Redhat
> 7.2).
>
> Ok. The A90f is brand new and the second one I've tried in the last four
> weeks. First monitor: after a few days, whenever the monitor went into
> power-saving mode it exhibited an audible "whine" from the rear area. This
> while running Windows 2000. I was ready to install Redhat anyhow, so did
> that. Same problem. Also, the "whine" was louder during OS boot while Linux
> was in text mode (640x400). The "whine" would disappear after X started but
> resume whenever the monitor entered standby, off, etc. Contacted ViewSonic;
> they said "bad monitor". Returned it last week to Office Depot (nice people)
> and received another A90f. Started it up, no whine. Cool. Two days later I
> was working along and POP! from the monitor, screen goes blank for a few
> seconds, then image returns fine. Uh oh. Few days gone by and monitor
> working fine. Shut system down for two days or so, rebooted and monitor
> exhibited very loud whine during Linux boot that disappeared after X
> started. Sigh.
>
> WTF, O? The same hardware drove a ViewSonic 17PS for many months and that
> 17PS is six years old. I am *not* overclocking anything, don't fiddle with
> xvidtune or anything like that. And, I've tried the native nVidia drivers
> too.
This really sounds like a problem with the monitor.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Viewsonic+%22high+pitched%22
There are some suggestions about plugging a monitor into a
different power outlet. Not sure I'd expect that to help though.
Mark.
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