High pitched whine. - cpu?

[Ronin.badger]

The behavior I have observed.

Random restart last week.

 

Yesterday My Screen went black then magenta and the system shutdown. (1)Rebooted it with no video signal. (2)Moved my 2060 to the third slot, nothing. (3) I swapped out my GPU for my Standby much older GPU and not signal in the top PCIE slot. (4)Moved it to the Third slot and I got potato signal. One Sata SSD was disconnected. Upon start up 1-4 I heard a high pitched whine while the system charged up. It seemed to be centralized around the CPU. My guess was mobo.

 

This morning There was whine when I booted, still potato quality "generic pnp monitor" in windows, tried updating drivers to make it livable but nvidia insists that my version of windows doesnt exist; W10 21H1. Windows update says I already have the best drivers available. GPUz Gave me the h/w info for the Old 460 but windows doesn't know what to make of it.

 

This afternoon I conferred with a few other people and we all determined it was Capacitor Whine. So I fired the parts cannon and Got a new mobo. This evening After installing the board everything launched like I was in the clear, except It wouldnt boot with both sticks of ram. pulled one and it was up and running. Then I Updated my drivers for the new motherboard with Msi center so I could click and install the chipset/audio/wifi/etc. While it was downloading and installing I checked the MQVL for my kit, It wasnt on the list but a similar older kit from Kingston with the same specs was. Restarted into Bios, Checked my memory settings. Powered down, installed the second stick, Booted into bios and everything seemed ok there. Back to windows. launched MSI center to confirm the updates and everything's good. Launched Firefox, continued with my tabs and proceeded to queue up a few Youtube videos, When the screen went white and the system rebooted. Tried again, watched a few videos, everything stable, Launched MSI center, tweaked a few settings like the data collection setting, minimized it and Khakis brown, black and the high pitched whine. Forced power down. rebooted, into windows. Fine. Thought about it and cpu? Running CPU stress tests atm. will be doing GPU stress tests too.

 

Edit:Forgot to mention it doesn't last. the video is as long as it goes for. Also removed all but boot drive, soundcard, wifi card, swapped PSU last night trying to narrow it down.

 

 

Update 01/30: ran prime95 for 2 hours last night stable. Ran Cinebench 2024 1 course CPU and GPU, both completed no issues. Watched Youtube videos for another hour with the only thing Crashing is me. This morning, Booted to desktop. started a Video, 5 min in and grey screen, for about a minute and windows was back, for 30 sec then a tan screen for 15 sec then desktop again.

 

01/31: Yesterday the system went dead moments after the last update. I was able to grab another system to test out the PSU. still dead. Swapped GPU, got to boot. Tested the 2060 in the donor system, no boot. GPU dead. Remounted the old board, B450 strix, with the new 5700x, 32 gb ram, GT 460, and P5 850; system is back to spec a few days ago. cpu , ram, psu,mobo. This afternoon, Reloaded the Parts cannon with a B580 and FIRE! Returned to the new mobo, MSI B550m-vc. 5700X no longer posts. Pulled the CPU, checked the pins, all's good. Reseated it, no post. Installed my old 2600 and post. Luckily I have ext warranty and its only been about 4 months from purchase, see how that goes. So far, New MOBO, New GPU, Dead CPU. You might say a Bios update might fix the 5700x posting, to which i would say, the board is marketed as 5000 series ready and was working "fine" for some time; the stress tests were ok. And Bios's arent known for automatic updates. Unless I have two consecutive faulty boards.

 

02/02: DejaVu. so the systems is up and mostly stable. I am afraid the PCIE controller on my old board broke everything connected to the top set of lanes. I might be having System drive instability now, or it might just be windows being windows. First successful boot with the B580 lasted 5 seconds, windows reset. down to post and back to login like a fast update, no BSOD. This happened again this morning when I Launched a Game.

Today there is some odd behavior in the Eventviewer.

10:23 windows update successful.

10:51:26 unexpected shutdown recorded at 10:33.

Also 10:51:50

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor APIC ID: 0

The details view of this entry contains further information.

Or my processor was damaged on the old board a while back, hadnt noticed it. Upgraded CPU and BIOS, then 3 months later the board cries out in pain and starts stabbing everyone.

 

02/02-2: ok so twice today the system crashed 

on YouTube. Watching at 2x speed and then I skip ahead. As soon as I press the arrow key it's lights out. As I write this it is reproducible.

 

02/07 - swapped Mobo for warranty. seems better

 

02/15 - OVP/OCP drops the past week. 

 

02/24 - Swapped out the PSU with essentials only, no HDD's for my old Silverstone 750. been mostly stable, reinstalled windows because there were some weird issues that seemed like Mobo driver issues.

02/27 - strange artifcating, is my GPU now fried by the PSU too?

03/01 - more testing this week and past week with various game engines, no OC/VP crashes so far.

 

04/19 - So I am convinced it was a VRM Capacitor that died on my Motherboard. Unclear if it was the fault of the PSu or not. The New Evga PSU is stable so far. Other components are too. Furher testing is required. For now I will close this so it can be archived in hopes of helping someone else.

[natalie888]

the whine could be (COULD) coil whine but idk

dunno about the rest of the issues srry

[Ronin.badger]

18 minutes ago, natalie888 said:

the whine could be (COULD) coil whine but idk

dunno about the rest of the issues srry

"Its centralized around the CPU"

Also every coil whine video I have heard sounds like this one.(below)

the reason I suspect CPU is maybe its drawing bad current through the inductors on the board, but with both boards? The only other option is bad PSU, but again Both PSU's bad? (forgot to mention I tested with my old PSU as well). The only parts I haven't removed or swapped out are CPU and RAM, I do not have replacements readily available for test. 

 

 

[Ronin.badger]

Unless it is unstable power, That killed my old board. Testing the old PSU was to test the Whine only, I didn't run the system long enough to trace instability, since the whine persisted I determined it was the board, not the PSU.

[Ronin.badger]

Detailed update above. Conversation below.

 

I Still have no idea what it could be, The old Board still whines like a Cap is gone or on the way out. If it was for the PCIE lanes and it fryed my CPU and GPU It might be the case. I sure hope its not the PSU power delivery. I have been spoiled with my ST750F lasting well over a decade and only developed coil whine here when I tested it a few days ago with this issue. EVGA using Seasonic components in this PSU w/ 10yrWar gives me hope this will outlast my Silverstone. I havent looked into the EVGA warranty program to see if it covers lost components. I havent tested my old CPU in the Old Board to see if the whine is still there. I will after I get the new CPU sorted out. If the old system boots fine, no whine w/ no components I will revert the BIOS and flip the system to recoup atleast the price of the new Mobo. If my 2600 is dying I wont be able to sell it.

[Ronin.badger]

On 1/31/2025 at 6:54 PM, Ronin.badger said:

Luckily I have ext warranty and its only been about 4 months from purchase.

With the mobo being only a few weeks ago I took it into to test. Tested Bad. Got a replacement. Guess I will see how this goes and will report back in all is well in a few weeks.

[Ronin.badger]

Update so far: Everything's been stable The past Week. However last night I loaded up RE:RE:4 adjusted the video settings to oranges 10.6GB/~12GB for the new card and as soon as it started loading the game I got a OVCP Trip. Don't know if this is relevant. Being documented.

[Ronin.badger]

On 2/13/2025 at 8:04 PM, Ronin.badger said:

Update so far: Everything's been stable The past Week. However last night I loaded up RE:RE:4 adjusted the video settings to oranges 10.6GB/~12GB for the new card and as soon as it started loading the game I got a OVCP Trip. Don't know if this is relevant. Being documented.

Just had an OCP/OVP on RE:RE:3. idk if its the PSU, it only has a single 12v rail so I can't break up the GPU power. But with the quality of the PSU I wouldnt expect it from this. I Drove Stalker2 at medium high on my 2060 and it chugged with no power issues until The capacitor issue on my board that started this thread. I am Continuing this on this thread because The PSU is the only component that is related to these issues that has not been swapped. cursory testing for boot determined other components to be at fault. This OCP/OVP might be RE engine. RE8 ran ok on similar settings. might be Raytracing on this new card?

 

Also Yesterday I came back from the bathroom to the login screen, windows event viewer had an unexpected shutdown. Also had a Pagefile BSOD later in the day. might be windows too.

[Ronin.badger]

so I got an RMA from EVGA and sent in the PSU. They sent back just the PSU, no cables. I waited another week for cables and its 3/4 the cables I sent. I have not tested it with the new EVGA PSU yet. I have since installed my old Silverstone ST750f from 2008 with no issues for 3 weeks except a bit of coil whine while the system is off, you know the mild whine you get from dying voltage stepping components common in those cheap USB wall chargers, iconic 60hz buzz.

 

Still not sure if it was the PSU, EVGA tested it with their cables and said it was fine, but I lost 2 mobos and a GPU all on the same power line(pcie board power). it might have been the EVGA GPU drawing too much power then killing a board then killing another, and damaging the last one before it died, leading to unstable power draw from the current GPU where it is forced to draw more from the VGA line instead of a balance from the slot and psu. BUT my silverstone is working fine. I Have not run the same gauntlet of test to see if it will crash with the Strider because I can not find the old article with the specs to ensure it has OVCP. its not even tagged 80+. I am sure it does have OV/CP but i didnt want to risk it and be out a PC.

[Ronin.badger]

04/19 - So I am convinced it was a VRM Capacitor that died on my Motherboard. Unclear if it was the fault of the PSu or not. The New Evga PSU is stable so far. Other components are too. Furher testing is required. For now I will close this so it can be archived in hopes of helping someone else.