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Hmmm, i can't imagine coils making noise like this (at least not at these levels of voltage/current). Have you looked closely at the capacitors? Make sure the metal bit on top isn't puffing out any. If it is, do something soon before it blows electrolytes all inside your case.

It's the coil for sure. All the caps are fine. And yes, small coils can make sounds, just not as much as large coils. Even some of the Axims have been reported to make a slight buzz or whine. In fact, a friend of mine has a 6GB (!) flash drive that whines quite audibly when it is accessed.

I'm still curious as to why my video card buzzes only in certain situations, though. So far, I have noted that Survivor and some xscreensaver screensavers (most notably the 3D gears) cause the buzzing. The interesting part: with xscreensaver, I was often able to eliminate the noise by setting the (animation) delay to 0 (which causes some screensavers to run outrageously fast). But add delay and the noises usually begin.

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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.