Vista Tutorial - Interference Noise

Hi there,

I recently installed a ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card in my machine
running Windows Vista Ultimate.

I'm running the latest version drivers from the ATI website.

There is a noise (sounds like interference) that seems to originate from the
graphics card when I do cetain things like:

Resize windows
Mouse over start menu items
Playing some games
Viewing some video files

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Newbie,

This issue most certainly isn't a Vista issue. However, I'm not there to
hear the noise, so I can only guess. If it only happens in visually intense
situations, then you could probably blame it on, most likely, the fan on your
GPU or CPU. Try to determine exactly where the noise is coming from. The
stock coolers on some systems can get noisy under any kind of load, etc.

You simply have to do more troubleshooting on your issue to pin it down.
It's pretty hard to diagnose this from a distance. I gave it my best shot.
--
freddy


"Newbie" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I recently installed a ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card in my machine
> running Windows Vista Ultimate.
>
> I'm running the latest version drivers from the ATI website.
>
> There is a noise (sounds like interference) that seems to originate from the
> graphics card when I do cetain things like:
>
> Resize windows
> Mouse over start menu items
> Playing some games
> Viewing some video files
>
> If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Freddy,

Thank you for the response.

I realize that this is most likely nothing to do with Vista and more likely
to be hardware / driver related.

Is it possible for the graphics card to produce and "interfernce" sound. It
seems to be coming from the card directly and doensn't seem to be the fan.

Any suggestions as to what I can do next?

"freddy" wrote:

> Newbie,
>
> This issue most certainly isn't a Vista issue. However, I'm not there to
> hear the noise, so I can only guess. If it only happens in visually intense
> situations, then you could probably blame it on, most likely, the fan on your
> GPU or CPU. Try to determine exactly where the noise is coming from. The
> stock coolers on some systems can get noisy under any kind of load, etc.
>
> You simply have to do more troubleshooting on your issue to pin it down.
> It's pretty hard to diagnose this from a distance. I gave it my best shot.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Newbie" wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I recently installed a ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card in my machine
> > running Windows Vista Ultimate.
> >
> > I'm running the latest version drivers from the ATI website.
> >
> > There is a noise (sounds like interference) that seems to originate from the
> > graphics card when I do cetain things like:
> >
> > Resize windows
> > Mouse over start menu items
> > Playing some games
> > Viewing some video files
> >
> > If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Newbie wrote:
> Freddy,
>
> Thank you for the response.
>
> I realize that this is most likely nothing to do with Vista and more likely
> to be hardware / driver related.
>
> Is it possible for the graphics card to produce and "interfernce" sound. It
> seems to be coming from the card directly and doensn't seem to be the fan.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I can do next?

I rather doubt this is driver-related. As Freddy said, it is probably a
faulty fan. Run the machine with the cover off so you can observe what
is happening. If the sound is coming from the video card, then RMA the
card for a new one.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

I just RMA'ed a video card for the same reason.
Turns out it is a bad transistor on the video card.

I would either exchange the card (if it was purchased recently) or contact
the company and request an RMA

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:uqrrMHtyHHA.3640@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Newbie wrote:
>> Freddy,
>>
>> Thank you for the response.
>>
>> I realize that this is most likely nothing to do with Vista and more
>> likely to be hardware / driver related.
>>
>> Is it possible for the graphics card to produce and "interfernce" sound.
>> It seems to be coming from the card directly and doensn't seem to be the
>> fan.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to what I can do next?
>
> I rather doubt this is driver-related. As Freddy said, it is probably a
> faulty fan. Run the machine with the cover off so you can observe what is
> happening. If the sound is coming from the video card, then RMA the card
> for a new one.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User