possibly video card problem?

hi, i have been having some problems running warcraft III:the frozen throne, with a geforce4 mx 440 vid. card. i run wc3 at 1024x728 res. w/ 32-bit color. and my monitor will randomly make high-pitched hums. sometimes they occur, and sometimes they dont. i have an hp computer, and my friend has a compaq, and he hass the same problem. is it my monitor, or possibly my video card? btw, it does not do that on any other games i play

 

can someone plz help me??

 

If you monitor is humming, I'd have to say that it would be a problem with the monitor and nothing inside your pc.

 

It's gonna blow up, get rid of it as soon as possible!

 

Er, well, no... there's no possibility of your monitor detonating. But I'll assume the joke was obvious.

It not unheard of for monitors to buzz, hum, whistle, or make that annoying noise camera flashes make. There's not much you can do about it. AFAIK, it's the result of wear on the high voltage electrical components in the CRT. I believe they always make this noise, it just so happens they're usually not audible.

On the plus side, monitors only tend to make the noise when used at a given resolution with a given color depth and a given refresh rate. DirectX defaults to a 60Hz refresh rate, but nVidia's drivers now allow you to override that. Open up Display Properties, Settings tab, Advanced button, GeForce 4 MX 440 tab. In the tree that pops out, one of the leaves is "Refresh Rate Overrides". Click that, and then override the refresh rate for 1024x768x32 for something other than Default. I'd try 72 Hz first, then 70 Hz, then 75 Hz.

 

That's true, it could be the result of EMI from local EM fields. There's not very much you can do about that, however. FCC guidelines state your monitor has to accept any EMI it gets from external sources, even if that results in undesirable operation. You can try moving stuff around or making more shielding.

An old roommate of mine used to get interference from the TV on the other side of the wall. He taped aluminum foil on the wall between the two devices, and claimed it got better. I wouldn't tape foil onto your monitor itself, however. That would reflect all the heat the unit generates back into it and cause pretty serious damage.

 

no, but he lives right down the street from me

 

last time i had a monitor that made noises i could hear, it popped and died.

see if it does it on a different computer. unplug it from the pc and run it by itself to see if it does it.

 

I can hear any CRT when it's on, including most TV's. I've walked past TVs with completely black screens and shut them off... to the oddest looks from people around me.

 

thats odd. i'm not saying they don't make noise (i can hear them too if its quiet and I'm close enough), just saying the last crt that made noises that was loud enough to hear while under normal use, popped and died.