Re: Whistling sound with Oracle!

Phil Castle wrote:
>
> have you recently paid for these Oracle products? Maybe it's the sound
> of Mr Ellison whistling as he is walking to the bank.
>
> If it is a very high-pitch whistle it may be coming from your screen.
> You can test this out by switching off the screen to see if the sound
> goes away. I have this myself on two very-old screens I have on some
> of my PCs.
>
> The problem is probably not Oracle, but SQL Plus driving your screen,
> CPU or power supply a bit harder so that a problem with one of these
> components reveals itself. Take it in to get serviced.
>
> Phil Castle.
>
> "trivial" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:<oNEu7.1507$Aw4.323645_at_news01.chello.no>...
> > Believe it or not!
> > After a few hours with Oracle 8.1.7, my computer starts a whistling sound!
> > The sound is so annoying that it forces me to reboot the box. After, I can
> > work a few hours more without the sound.
> >
> > This only happens when I am working with Oracle SQL PLUS.
> >
> > Win2k sp2, PIII 850, 512 MB of RAM
> >
> > Anyone who knows.?

As I sit here looking at my smoking ruin of a laptop with a dead disk and dead LCD - I can highly recommend that advice

:-(

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