24" monitor and noise

[Jon]

Its an Acer AL2416W. But the noise comes from my computer chassis, not the monitor.

I missed that part in the OP.

Sounds like it might be time for a new video card.

[glockmail]

I missed that part in the OP.

Sounds like it might be time for a new video card.

There shouldn't be a problem with just waiting until it breaks, should there?

[Jon]

There shouldn't be a problem with just waiting until it breaks, should there?

Ask Hobbit. IIRC, he had a video card catch fire or otherwise burn up. I'm sure it's unlikely to be a problem though.

[glockmail]

Ask Hobbit. IIRC, he had a video card catch fire or otherwise burn up. I'm sure it's unlikely to be a problem though.

LOL! I had a mouse blow up in my hand once.

[Jon]

LOL! I had a mouse blow up in my hand once.

Short fuse on that firecracker eh?

[glockmail]

Short fuse on that firecracker eh?

Seriously. I was doing CAD work on a microsoft mouse, and "boom". Actually more like a snap.

[Mr. P]

I agree that is the likely culprit. But its a high end card, an NVIDIA GeForce MX440 with 64MB of RAM. It's weird that it makes noise.

I guess I should just wait until it blows up, then put another in?

64mb should be plenty I'm only running 32mb. Your guess is as good as mine on leaving it it until it fails. My only concern with that would be; is it affecting anything else. Or will it?

Hey, did you try taking it out and re-seating it? Shot in the dark, I know, especially when puter reports it as ok.

[-Cp]

I agree that is the likely culprit. But its a high end card, an NVIDIA GeForce MX440 with 64MB of RAM. It's weird that it makes noise.

I guess I should just wait until it blows up, then put another in?

fyi... a GeForce MX440 is not a "high end card" nor has it ever been one..

Not only is the MX440 about 4 years old, the MX products were missing programmable DirectX 8 shaders as the GeForce 4 Ti cards had - in fact, the MX was nothing more than just a GeForce 2 GPU on steriods...

[glockmail]

64mb should be plenty I'm only running 32mb. Your guess is as good as mine on leaving it it until it fails. My only concern with that would be; is it affecting anything else. Or will it?

Hey, did you try taking it out and re-seating it? Shot in the dark, I know, especially when puter reports it as ok.

I just took your shot-in-the-darkk and it worked! I found the chassis cooling fan wire touching the card, as well as another cable, so I tied these both out of the way. I re-set the card as well.

My guess is that the fan power wire was transmitting some vibration when te card was working hard. Weird.

[Mr. P]

I just took your shot-in-the-darkk and it worked! I found the chassis cooling fan wire touching the card, as well as another cable, so I tied these both out of the way. I re-set the card as well.

My guess is that the fan power wire was transmitting some vibration when te card was working hard. Weird.

Great!!!

[glockmail]

Great!!!

[nevadamedic]

[glockmail]

Great!!!

Oops- the noise is back.

I think this is just something that I'll have to live with.

[Mr. P]

Oops- the noise is back.

I think this is just something that I'll have to live with.

Hate it when that happens!! Maybe it is a cooling fan, no?

[glockmail]

Hate it when that happens!! Maybe it is a cooling fan, no?

Nope. The noise occurs when I do certain things as described. I'll just assume the 'puter's whispering to me in its own little way.