Good evening all, I trust I find you well...
This one is doing my head in:
I've taken out my sound card (pcie x-fi platinum)
disabled on board sound via device manger
swapped ATI HD5850 for nvidia 8800 GTX
and still my PC emits this awful, fax-like squealing. It's not incredibly loud, but is so very very irritating.
I found the following in the "PSU" thread:
This isn't a 'buzz', but could be described as a 'whine', but for me, 'squeal' is a better description of my problem, and my PSU is a 650 watt Corsair number.
I made a 40 second recording of the noise by putting the mic at the back of the PSU. The dominant noise is therefore the wind from the fan, but if you turn up the speakers, the squealing can be clearly heard, especially just after the 30 second mark. (recording is inside the attached zip file)
Now, the frustrating thing for me, is that, at power on, during the POST, and the DMI pool data stuff, there's no squealing, but just before the desktop loads, the squealing kicks in and does not stop.
Stranger still, for me, at least, the squealing pauses if I scroll a long text document in UltraEdit, but does not pause if I scroll the same document in Notepad.
When I launch Everest, the squealing will stop during the opening "scanning" period, but once Everest appears on the desktop, the squealing is straight back.
Does anyone have any idea what on earth is going on here?
please
-marko
This one is doing my head in:
I've taken out my sound card (pcie x-fi platinum)
disabled on board sound via device manger
swapped ATI HD5850 for nvidia 8800 GTX
and still my PC emits this awful, fax-like squealing. It's not incredibly loud, but is so very very irritating.
I found the following in the "PSU" thread:
Buzzing noises are most often caused by coil whine, where the current passing through the wire in the coil will cause the core to vibrate at a audible frequency. This is a common problem on corsair psu's mixed with certain video cards/motherboards.
This isn't a 'buzz', but could be described as a 'whine', but for me, 'squeal' is a better description of my problem, and my PSU is a 650 watt Corsair number.
I made a 40 second recording of the noise by putting the mic at the back of the PSU. The dominant noise is therefore the wind from the fan, but if you turn up the speakers, the squealing can be clearly heard, especially just after the 30 second mark. (recording is inside the attached zip file)
Now, the frustrating thing for me, is that, at power on, during the POST, and the DMI pool data stuff, there's no squealing, but just before the desktop loads, the squealing kicks in and does not stop.
Stranger still, for me, at least, the squealing pauses if I scroll a long text document in UltraEdit, but does not pause if I scroll the same document in Notepad.
When I launch Everest, the squealing will stop during the opening "scanning" period, but once Everest appears on the desktop, the squealing is straight back.
Does anyone have any idea what on earth is going on here?
please
-marko