Are 'squealing' capacitors a sign of impending failure?

EvilFranky · 23 Dec 2007 at 12:08

P5B Deluxe WiFi, E6600 @ 3.4, Geil ULL 6400 @ 850 2.1v

I'm running an Orthos blended stress test at the moment, and you can hear capacitors squealing as its running.

Strangely when I move the bar up and down in a window, for example Explorer, it goes away until I stop moving it.

LOL weird!

Duke · 23 Dec 2007 at 12:11

I had this problem on my old Gigabyte DS3 board when the memory was being taxed. You can put glue stuff over the capacitors or something, to make them quiet. It isn't a sign of them going though.

EvilFranky · 23 Dec 2007 at 12:13

I thought it may have had something to do with memory. Just with it being a blend stress.

Strange phenomenon!

Duke · 23 Dec 2007 at 12:14

Yeah it is a little weird and annoying

Firegod · 23 Dec 2007 at 12:48

Yeah my GPU does this. Only really a problem when benchmarking as there is no sound; gaming is fine though.

YZFAndy · 23 Dec 2007 at 14:19

Before I upgraded my power supply mine used to do that. It was a Qtec 550watt :mad:

. Did sound like it was coming from the board some where though. I think it was at it absolute limit.

Its probably stopping when you move the slider bars because your moving the priority from ort to explorer and not loading it as much.

Duke · 23 Dec 2007 at 14:34

YZFAndy said:
Before I upgraded my power supply mine used to do that. It was a Qtec 550watt

Surprised it didn't explode

YZFAndy · 23 Dec 2007 at 14:57

When I put in a 8800 the high pitch squeal turned into a heavy buzz that could be felt vibrating the case

. Turn it off and went to the shop the next day.

juno_first · 23 Dec 2007 at 15:18

I thought squeeking bits on a pcb was due to dry joints

Jayos · 23 Dec 2007 at 15:24

I think you may have left your mouse in the case