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When I run Survivor on my Athlon 64 PC, the video card makes an electrical buzzing sound similar to a mercury arc lamp, though not as loud. I noticed it when I opened the case to check the temperatures. The card is passively cooled so that rules out a noisy fan.

Specs:
3000+ Athlon 64
1GB DDR400
128MB GeForce FX 5200 (it's not a CAD machine)
Antec 350w PSU
ECS 755-A2 motherboard
200GB 7200RPM HDD
16x DVD+-RW
Debian 3.1 AMD64

I have narrowed down the noise to some inductors on the video card. The system does complete a run of Survivor and the noise is not noticeable with the case closed, but is it a sign of electrical problems? Nothing on the card is overheating.
Interestingly, running Fear Factor gets the card even hotter, but it also completes and actually doesn't make noise!

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HDTV the way it should be:
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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.