Posted by (63.49.225.187) on September 03, 2001 at 14:04:40:
Hi there,
hopefully, someone here can help me with a bit of an odd circumstance...
I have a newly built computer which apparently is causing considerable interference with AM radio reception in my home. (AM radio sounds like the special effects from the old 1950's movie "War of the worlds"...)
And with all of the FCC compliance stuff, I'm baffled as to why this is happening at all.
Is it possibly a bad hardware problem, a house wiring problem (my house is 40 + years old), the fact that the new processor is an 866, perhaps my new monitor???
My old computer (Pentium 100, 6.5 gig hd, 32MB mem, 15" monitor) never caused any such problems.
The specs on the new system are as follows:
Socket 370 GA-60X/Intel 815 EP AGPset motherboard, Pentium III @ 866 MHz, 20.5 gig hd, 256MB (PC-133 MHz) SDRAM, dvd-rom, Sony cd-r/rw, 3-Com 10/100 PCI nic card, US-Robotics 56k external modem
Monitor: (No name brand listed at all on the box or elsewhere although, there is a model listing of 1770 A)
17" low radiation color monitor
0.27mm dot-pitch CRT & MPRII
Auto scan Horizontal frequency 30KHz-70KHz
Vertical frequency 50Hz-160Hz
OSO digital control
Vesa DPMS power saving
MPRII
Plug & Play DDC 1/2B
Universal 100-240 VAC 60Hz/50Hz power supply
Built-in multimedia speakers
Any suggestions or advice on how to get this awful noise to stop would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks