blitter noise !

phill1978

phill1978

phill1978

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hi,

recently my win7 64bit machine has started to make small very quiet squeeks from the psu when moving the mouse or highlighting an image on the Internet (firefox or opera)

i have a dual boot linux mint 10 and it does not make the sounds (firefox)


the recent changes to my pc are Asus Xonar DX and latest 11.1 catalyst drivers



(also as aside my windows will load fine but during the loading of catalyst the screen will flash black and then be fine from there onwards (also does anyone else get 3x 5800 series to choose from when right clicking the catalyst tray icon? i only have one gpu)



anyways, could it be IRQ related? since adding the sound card some games have hung the computer totally so only a hard reset works although trying again it does not. I dont feel the sound card drivers are totally stable.

perhaps i installed the card wrong? its not in a pci-e lane its in one of the small white pci slots above the gfx card and between the cpu (board is 890gx and all stock options apart from onboard audio turned off)

any ideas welcome
 
ok,

so i ran in safe mode with networking did some tests.

no noise :)

so its the ****ty ATi drivers !

not sure what release to move back to but its fekin annoying that these lastest drivers are so skat
 
its cap squealing, normal on cards from around the 7 series (nvidia) onwards. if its def from the psu and not the gpu like it normally it then its because the soundcard added that tiny bit more load and now it squeals when everything is being used.
A lot of components now do this (the coils and or caps) including psu, gpu, mobo and more i dont know about. Can be fixed with a hot glue gun as it literally stops it expanding/contracting.

What psu is it?
 
corsair 850w

i removed gpu and cpu overclocking it did seem to get quieter and oddly moving to 10.10 driver it was quieter to the point of almost not being there

i think your right to an extent . however its now barely audible on 10.10 why would a driver effect it??
 
yes, if its gpu, since the drivers make windows interact with the card differently, and use bits of it more or less efficiently etc.
 
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