My new mac is making a loud noise, but the speakers are off. It is like a buzzing white noise. Anyone know how to stop it?

Better listen.. Someone is trying to tell you something :lol:

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Figured it out. My kitchen light was making it make the noise. Weird.

Figured it out. My kitchen light was making it make the noise. Weird.



Is your kitchen light Fluorescent ? or a compact bulb ..... the ballast maybe throwing off RF interference ........ like a Cell Phone too close to your speakers ...



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Figured it out. My kitchen light was making it make the noise. Weird.

Is your kitchen light Fluorescent ? or a compact bulb ..... the ballast maybe throwing off RF interference ........ like a Cell Phone too close to your speakers ...



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I have seen Nextel Direct Connect make the Mac's make strange noises through the speakers as well. :shrug:

My lights are track lighting on wires, the think in the center needs to be replaced (It goes bad about every year and a half.)

My lights are track lighting on wires, the think in the center needs to be replaced (It goes bad about every year and a half.)

If it only happens in the kitchen, can you isolate it to the lights (by turning them on and off)?

Whatever the issue is, the lights should not be emitting enough RF noise (even at a harmonic) to bleed into the audio circuitry of your Mac...

Like RadioPatrol said; if it was fluorescent, then this is possible as it could be a bad ballast (fluorescent lighting is "noisy" electrically) , but with track lighting, something's not right. :shrug: - OR the filtering for your audio circuitry could be bad on the Mac, but the problem should happen in other places as well.

Try using a power filter.
APC - C Type AV Power Filters - Product Information (http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=323)

Try using a power filter.

Her power brick should have a power-filter built in, unless that is dorked... but you are right, it would be a good test to try a power-strip with sometype of power filtering, or a simple filter...

Another way to test is to run from battery alone and see if it does it (no A/C in, no electrical line noise from the house.) :yay:

What kind of mac is it? The fan in my G5 is a white noise type of sound.

What kind of mac is it? The fan in my G5 is a white noise type of sound.

It is the newest one. I don't know the name. Hubby loves it like a child. :lmao:

It is the newest one. I don't know the name. Hubby loves it like a child. :lmao:



If I had an 8 Core ..... I might love it more than Megan :twitch:



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