Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!mtuxo!lzfme!jwi
From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: High pitched whine in DEL System 200
Summary: On site maintenance
Message-ID: <1555@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 13:37:20 GMT
References: <6958@cloud9.Stratus.COM>
Organization: AT&T, Lincroft NJ
Lines: 23

Mike Mahler writes:
> 
>     Having recently purchased a DELL System 200 PC and using it for
>     2 weeks I've begun to notice a very high pitched squeal coming
>     from the power supply area.  It goes away when I execute a command
>     that uses power.  What I was wondering is if someone can reccomend
>     a way to run a background procedure that will do something 
>     simple like print the time in the corner of the screen continuously
>     such that some power will be used and the noise will go away?

All DELL machines come with an on-site, next-day service
contract. Why in the world would you want to screw around when you
can just call for service?

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi (Please don't email, unable to reply.)

Those persons who advocate censorship offend my religion.

Upuaut:	a wolf-headed Egyptian deity | Voodoo: the art of sticking ideas
	assigned as Guidance System  |         into people and watching
	for the Barque of Ra.        |         them bleed.

The opinions expressed here are not necessarily