Jump to content

Weird noise from computer?

NunoLava1998
By NunoLava1998
in Troubleshooting
 Share
Posted

My computer recently for around 1-2 minutes made a weird noise. It was pretty much a very low-volume electrical humming sound. I saw that it could be something with the power supply (Hey, I've got a power supply that's pretty bad. It runs fine tho). What is it?

Specs:

CPU: i3 4160 (Haswell, LGA 1150) with stock cooler.

RAM: Single-Channel 8GB RAM (1x8GB) at 1596MHz from Kingston

Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1 rev2.1 (Haswell, LGA1150)

Monitor: Flatron L192WS

GPU: Nvidia GTX 950, model made by GIGABYTE

HDD: 931 GiB/0.909TiB/1000GB/1TB Western Digital WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1. Uses SATA.

SSD: None

 

Ryzen 7 3700X / 16GB RAM / Optane SSD / GTX 1650 / Solus Linux

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Try to unplug all fans except the critical ones and turn the system on.

Dying fans can make all kinds of noises too.

 

Alternatively, stop the fans one by one by holding the blades. I don't recommend this method though, it's not good for the fans to be held still.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Its more than likely coil whine; not much you can do about it. What PSU do you have?

******If you paste in text into your post, please click the "remove formatting" button for night theme users.******

CPU- Intel 6700k OC to 4.69 Ghz GPU- NVidia Geforce GTX 970 (MSI) RAM- 16gb DDR4 2400 SSD-2x500gb samsung 850 EVO(SATA) Raid 0 HDD- 2tb Seagate Case- H440 Red w/ custom lighting Motherboard - MSI Z170 Gaming A OS- Windows 10 Mouse- Razer Naga Epic Chroma, Final Mouse 2016 turney proKeyboard- Corsair k70 Cherry MX brown

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
2 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Its more than likely coil whine; not much you can do about it. What PSU do you have?

Oh yea, that's a thing too.

Lucky enough to never have encountered it myself.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

It sounds nothing like coil whine.

Ryzen 7 3700X / 16GB RAM / Optane SSD / GTX 1650 / Solus Linux

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
19 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

It sounds nothing like coil whine.

It could be PSU or GPU.

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

I'll download EasyTune which lets you set the speed of your fans and i'll see if it is the fan.

 

EDIT: 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Ryzen 7 3700X / 16GB RAM / Optane SSD / GTX 1650 / Solus Linux

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing Troubleshooting

×