Squeak sound in Nvidia Control Panel

[weyland yutani]

Since today, whenever I launch or apply settings in Nvidia Control Panel, I hear a very short squeak sound coming from my pc . . . wtf!

My GTX1060 still sounds normal at idle and under heavy load. I can't decipher if its coming from the gpu or psu (my hearing isn't very good) My previous card, a HD7950 had loud coil whine under heavy load but it died over a year ago.

This sound only occurs when I launch or apply new settings in NCP and only started today, doesnt make any sense. I updated to the latest drivers 385.69 a few days ago without issue. Any ideas?

 

[darket]

Its not a squeak, its the PC yawning at how long the Nvidia control panel takes to load, or do anything for that matter...

 

[D1craig]

go back to the last driver you had and see if its still happening

 

[Gerard]

Its not a squeak, its the PC yawning at how long the Nvidia control panel takes to load, or do anything for that matter...

True , they really need to overhaul that thing, no reason for it to take as long as it does.

 

[weyland yutani]

go back to the last driver you had and see if its still happening

Yeah think I'l try the previous driver. Could it be a psu thing maybe? It's a Corsair HX650 I've had since building this pc over 6 years ago.

Yean I noticed since switching to nvidia that the control panel is a bit slow and laggy and now I hear a small mouse inside my pc whenever I use it

 

[Wrinkly]

It's just the hamster waking.

 

[weyland yutani]

It's bizarre and going back to the prevous driver I was one doesn't fix it

 

[Rroff]

Its not a squeak, its the PC yawning at how long the Nvidia control panel takes to load, or do anything for that matter...

Time it takes to load is related to the last page it was on - some pages due to the way they work need to fetch and update information to display.

Stick this in a batch file it will open instantly to the home page when loaded via that batchfile:

@echo off

reg add "HKCU\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\NVControlPanel2\Client" /v LastPage /t REG_BINARY /d ec8881f1672555488bae2766f5ec54fc /f

start "" "%programfiles%\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client\nvcplui.exe"

 

[Mynight]

Its not a squeak, its the PC yawning at how long the Nvidia control panel takes to load, or do anything for that matter...

Time it takes to load is related to the last page it was on - some pages due to the way they work need to fetch and update information to display.

Stick this in a batch file it will open instantly to the home page when loaded via that batchfile:

@echo off

reg add "HKCU\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\NVControlPanel2\Client" /v LastPage /t REG_BINARY /d ec8881f1672555488bae2766f5ec54fc /f

start "" "%programfiles%\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client\nvcplui.exe"

Or just open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp and deny write privileges on the "nvidialogging" folder. Boots in a couple of seconds and switching between menus is much faster. Doesn't appear to have caused any issues in regards to saving settings.

 

[Rroff]

Or just open %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp and deny write privileges on the "nvidialogging" folder. Boots in a couple of seconds and switching between menus is much faster. Doesn't appear to have caused any issues in regards to saving settings.

No such folder exists on my setup heh.

Also speeds things up as well though.

 

[Mynight]

No such folder exists on my setup heh.

Also speeds things up as well though.

Balls. Sorry about that. Wonder why it exists on some and not others then .

 

[Rroff]

I took apart the driver to remove telemetry, etc. - right pain but I don't see a need for that stuff running as default. Useful for other people though.

 

[oldestgregg]

I took apart the driver to remove telemetry, etc. - right pain but I don't see a need for that stuff running as default. Useful for other people though.

Or you could use that TinyNvidia tool if you are aware of it?

 

[Rroff]

Didn't exist at the time I started doing it.

 

[oldestgregg]

Fair enough. Ive never used it myself as I dont mind GFE and for me,facebook and google are more intrusive than anything Nvidia put out and i couldnt care less about those either. I can see why people would want to use it though and to each their own.

 

[Rroff]

I'm less concerned by the telemetry/logging stuff directly privacy wise - though I don't see a need for it especially without user configuration - but the fact that so often these systems end up with accidental data breaches of more serious stuff i.e. accidentally exposing passwords due a malfunction, etc. and increasingly the target for "supply chain" and other type attacks on automated software distribution/update systems, etc. and just another needless potential entry point to the system.

 

[Mynight]

I took apart the driver to remove telemetry, etc. - right pain but I don't see a need for that stuff running as default. Useful for other people though.

Was it just the case of disabling their background services or have I missed some?

 

[weyland yutani]

Any idea about my issue in the OP? I only hear this squeak when accessing or saving changes to settings. Could it be a bad capacitor in the gpu? I dont hear anything like this or coil whine when stressing the card in a demanding game.