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Re: [emax] Hard Drive whine

2000-05-28 by BOB CONNER

It could be the bearings for the HD. Or perhaps it's vibrating some
other component. I seem to recall that LCD displays sometimes squeal
too.

Bob

John Joseph Silveria II wrote:
> 
> > I installed a 540meg hard drive, a Quantum Lightning to be exact,
> > into my EmaxII.. It seems to be working perfectly, except for this
> > NASTY **high pitch** whine that just rings in the ears like mad (note that
> > this high pitch whine was not present before the hard drive was
> > installed).. The volume slider on the EmaxII doesn't affect how loud the
> > squeel is either - even when the volume on the emaxII is all the way down,
> > the whine is just as prevelant as before, and it seriously hurts the
> > ears... Any suggestions on getting rid of this whine short of removing the
> > hard drive?
> 
> Although the squeal may have begun when you put in the hard drive
> there is a chance that this is the classic high pitch squeal caused by
> the LED. See my website for details. If it is your hard drive you might
> try to reseat your hard drive using some rubber washers as insulators.
> 
> The sound itself is not coming out of the outputs it's coming out of the
> unit. Mine does it on ocassion at boot up and that's without a hard
> drive installed but after a few minutes it stops.
> 
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