SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W squeal/chirp noise

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Mechorpheus

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Hey guys,

Just after a bit of advice before I call up OCUK to get this RMA'd. Last night I noticed a strange high-pitched chirping sound coming from my PC. Initially I though it was a hard-disk as it wasn't continuous, but on inspection it turned out to be the PSU. I powered down the system and was still able to hear the noise coming from the PSU unit with the ATX switch on but the PC switched off, and even with the PSU completely disconnected from the PC.

The noise is extremely annoying even while idling at the desktop, but throw any kind of GPU load at it and it gets a good bit louder. I'm worried it's just going to explode and take my CPU or GPU with it. Anyone else experienced anything like this?

Troubling thing is I can't really find any other posts on here or anywhere else on Google of anyone experiencing faults with SuperFlower PSUs. :confused:
 
just go ahead and RMA it. it's unlikely to fix itself on the way back.

no matter who the manufacturer is and how highly regarded they are, some units are going to fail. it just sucks that it happened to you. :p
 
So an interesting turn of events.

I got the RMA organised with OCUK and set about putting an old seasonic unit I managed to find into the desktop to use as an interim. After setting it up, booting windows and starting to use the machine, I noticed that the same noise was coming out of that PSU as well.

Had a bit more of a dig around online and saw some posts from people suggesting that electrical interference within the wiring of the property could cause this kind of thing. I've recently bought a new high-wattage (330W) power-supply for my laptop (heavily upgraded M15X which needs more juice than the 150W stock one can provide). Having had a play around, it looks very much like that new lappy PSU is causing the issue. I set my desktop up with the SuperFlower PSU hooked up and set it running Ungine Valley to load up the GPU, and no noise. I plug in the laptop charger and switch on the wall socket, immediate chirping. Even tried the laptop charger in another room, same issue.

I have literally no idea how to fix this beyond sending the new laptop charger back and praying that is faulty. I'd expect OCUK would laugh me out of the shop if I went ahead with the RMA on this.
 
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