i got a squealer

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 10:18

i got a squealer (motherboard)

i dunno if it's the motherboard or the graphics card

when i move my mouse over anything grey, she squeals like a pig.

should i be worried?

RedGooner · 22 Jul 2010 at 10:23

Have you checked the PSU, thats where my Squeal comes from.
What Make is your PSU ???

Philtor · 22 Jul 2010 at 10:24

Take the cover off and try and determine if the noise is coming from the Graphics card or the PSU. This might be worth a read also whether it's the PSU causing the noise or not...

http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85166

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 10:42

can't be the psu, that psu is a few months old and didn't do it before i put my new mobo, ram, cpu & gfx in yesterday.

mogwai · 22 Jul 2010 at 11:03

What was you previous setup? As it may now be making a noise as it is under more load. I had it with my Gigabyte MB turning off speedstep has got rid of the noise.

What PSU is it?

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 11:20

old setup was:
core2quad Q6600
Gigabyte EP45DS3R
8GB Kingston Hyper-X
Sapphire Rdeon 4890 Vapour-x

thing is, this new setup has a few less CCFL tubes and two less hard drives, and 2gb less ram, kinda thought that'd balance it a bit.

it's a coolermaster iGreenpower 600 Watt, should be about 50 watts more than enough, as it even has two 6pin pci-e connectors built in, so it's basically asking for both of them to be used...

i haven't overclocked anything, all i did in the bios was disable expressgate.

specs in sig.

lurkio · 22 Jul 2010 at 12:30

Is Vsync ON or OFF in your GFX card settings ?

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 13:51

off, but this isn't while playing games, this is while browsing the web or editing images or something, it happens when the cursor passes over certain colours.

Nocky24 · 22 Jul 2010 at 13:57

My mates pc creates a quiet, high pitched noise by mouse movement as well. What psu have you got? Edit: sorry didn't see one of your posts.

But yeh I'd say it was interference with the mobo or psu. I shouldn't worry about it, but I know things like this are very annoying.

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 14:27

it hardly annoys me, i only notice it if there's no other sound, i just don't want my shiny new build to become a bedroom bonfire, weren't cheap lol

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 17:46

so it's definately the motherboard, right down there next to the cpu socket, varies in pitch & intensity, it's loudest when i'm playing a STALKER game (tested shadow of chernobyl and clear sky, i imagine call of pripyat will be the same)..

tried disabling speedstep, any ideas?

toxicredcat · 22 Jul 2010 at 18:24

I take it your CPU is at stock? I get the same problem if mine is, its the CPU power states. If the CPU its at stock volts the the voltage with vary depending on load and its this that creates the squealing noise when you move your mouse.

To stop it on mine I just increased the CPU vcore to the next highest value. Diabling one of the power saving features probably stops it but I don't know which one does what.

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 18:25

ueful, thanks mate i'll have a bash at that later.

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 19:39

so, i tried the voltage thing, still squeaky...

...but turning off C1E appears to have done the trick, not sure though as i didn't exactly have 'quiet time' to do it.

wish me luck!