Opening discord is making my PSU click

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 04:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43VDRUa_YPc As you can see from the video when I open up discord it is causing my psu to make this strange clicking sound. The pc is only a week old, and I want to know if this is worth sending back for repair, as this is the last thing I was expecting to happen. Especially when I am only opening discord. The PSU is a EVGA supernova 650 g3.

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 05:25

Normally during a game or booting any game etc you never hear it at all, just the normal fans running. But discord didn't do this until today. Don't wanna go through the hassle of returning my system for this one issue tho, but don't want it breaking at the same time

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 05:26

And it does this every time it starts. I have it set to open when the pc is booted and still does it before any games are open

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 06:01

I understand what you mean but the problem I'm having is that it never used to do it, and I've had it installed since day 1. I just tried running pubg and not a single sound. I then ran discord while pubg was on and the click was there. So it's not the fan turning on or off. Like I said I've had this for 6 days so it seems like the power supply may already be getting faulty if simply opening discord makes that sound.

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 06:09

I'm going to call oc one they open at 8 30. Hopefully they will know what the issue is, if not it will be a case of having to send it back for a fix

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 07:13

Tried removing usbs and trying, same thing

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 17:45

I'm using a Asus Xonar dsx 7.1

bilboslaggin · 27 Jun 2018 at 19:05

Ok so I fixed the issue, it seemed to be the soundcard as bledd had mentioned. It only started happening once I allowed windows to use my mic with the win 10 version of skype, that I only put on the night before. Once I disabled windows using my mic for apps the sound is now gone, and discord is not causing an issue anymore. So it seems like the card was switching back and forth because of the windows skype forcing it off and on. Only a theory but it fixed the problem, kinda sad that Microsoft can't make a working app that doesn't mess with your card.