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Odd sounds with monitor AND speakers

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stringcheeseincident

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Lately these two components have succesfully driven me insane while I try to use my computer. Every once in a while, a very high pitched annoying whine will come from the top of the back of my monitor. Its the black and silver Samsung 753DF, hooked up normally, just sitting on my desk. Turning it off for a while is the only thing that I've found that helps with this problem. Anyone know what this is or how to fix it?

I'm also running a 5.1 speaker set up - the Logitech z640. Also as of late, an annoying constant drone (not nearly as high pitched as the monitor) is coming out of every speaker, all the time. Its difficult to hear with music playing, but is definitely still there as long as the speakers are on. I either need to listen to music very loud, or turn the whole set up off. I don't have any magnets or anything like that around my desk, so I'm not sure what this could be.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
I have experienced this from time to time. It sometimes happens when a monitor is running at an odd refresh rate -- though with an intermittent noise, I'm not sure if that would necessarily explain it. I'd recommend adjusting your resolution and/or refresh rate (via, I think, the adapter tab on your display preferences) and see if it makes any difference.

BE CAREFUL though when resetting the refresh rate on a monitor. As Microsoft says, you may damage the monitor (hardware) by setting an unsupported refresh rate. Make sure your monitor can handle the rate you desire to set it to before doing it.

With that said, I did read somewhere that setting it to the highest supported rate will reduce the chance for noise.
 
Both are muted on my soundcard, thanks for the suggestion though. I'll go research my monitor and refresh rates and see if that'll help. Thanks for the help guys.
 
I'm not sure about the monitor problem but for the speaker issue, make sure you do not have a cell phone near by.

If you use nextel kept the phone at least 10 feet from a speaker
 
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