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From: shepherd@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: display whiiiiiine (T1000SE)?READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Message-ID: <9519.26238bf9@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 19:56:41 GMT
References: <2497@cbnewsi.ATT.COM> <110ldg@yoda.byu.edu>
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In article <110ldg@yoda.byu.edu>, ldg@yoda.byu.edu writes:
> In <2497@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>, Robert H. Wentworth writes:
> 
>>I recently purchased a T1000SE.  In general, I think it's
>>great -- but the display has this to-me-annoying whine (which
>>is correlated with display brightness).  Others who hear it
>>don't find it annoying, or perhaps don't hear it at all.
>>My question: is this something others have observed with
>>T1000SE's? with backlit supertwist LCD displays in general?
> 
> I noticed the same annoying whine when I looked at a T1200HB in a store
> a while ago, and later asked about the whine when I talked to a
> Toshiba customer service person. He said that if a display whines, it is
> defective; the display should be silent. I have since seen T1200HB's that
> are indeed silent. Since you _recently_ purchased yours, call Toshiba and
> see if you get the same answer I got, and if so, you might want to have
> them fix it.
>

My T1000SE has the faintest of whines...if the room is very quiet. Normal
Background noise washes it out easily.

#8*} Esteban.