Strange sound: crickers chirping?

[Cheez]

Howdy, I have assembled quite a few homebuilts and am around computers
quite often. Upon doing a major upgrade to my own machine (Gigabyte
k7 Triton MB, AMD 3200 XP, 1GB 3200DDR) I am getting a very strange
noise. To me it sounds like crickets chirping. Not loud, but louder
than the case/cpu fans. I would also describe it as an intermittent
high pitched (again not very loud) hiss. It kind of repeats the same
pattern over and over again. In general there is a lot of electronic
noise coming from inside. I have used this same P/S (430w) without
this problem. I also think I can eliminate the fans.

I have really tried hard to localize the problem. It *seems* to be
coming from my CPU (not from the fan). Or from the area surrounding
the CPU...can the MB make this sound? How about a cooked CPU? Bad
RAM? Another observation is when I start up a browser (IE) it
coincides with barely audible (but louder than the fans) electronic
hiss. Not all applications make this sound.

This is about the most annoying thing in the world. Concentrating on
writing code while this thing is hissing at me makes me really mad.

Has anyone ever heard such a thing?

Cheers,
Cheez

 

[philo]

Howdy, I have assembled quite a few homebuilts and am around computers
quite often. Upon doing a major upgrade to my own machine (Gigabyte
k7 Triton MB, AMD 3200 XP, 1GB 3200DDR) I am getting a very strange
noise. To me it sounds like crickets chirping. Not loud, but louder
than the case/cpu fans. I would also describe it as an intermittent
high pitched (again not very loud) hiss. It kind of repeats the same
pattern over and over again. In general there is a lot of electronic
noise coming from inside. I have used this same P/S (430w) without
this problem. I also think I can eliminate the fans.

I have really tried hard to localize the problem. It *seems* to be
coming from my CPU (not from the fan). Or from the area surrounding
the CPU...can the MB make this sound? How about a cooked CPU? Bad
RAM? Another observation is when I start up a browser (IE) it
coincides with barely audible (but louder than the fans) electronic
hiss. Not all applications make this sound.

This is about the most annoying thing in the world. Concentrating on
writing code while this thing is hissing at me makes me really mad.

Has anyone ever heard such a thing?

Cheers,
Cheez

As funny as this may seem...
a small rubber hose placed in your ear,,,
with the other end used to "snoop" as a great way to locate the exact source
of audible noise

 

[AgoneR]

I thought i was alone with this . I updated my mb & cpu and
these sounds came. When i put previous parts back theres no prob.
Strange part is that only where this whining sound occures, is when
im playin diablo2 and ONLY when mouse cursor is on the screen. Not
big loss then, but it would be nice to know what is reason for that
sound. I updated xp2600+ -> P3.2 and asus a78nx -> p4c800.

And sound is definitely comin from mb or cpu, no fans or other.

 

[AgoneR]

Okay, heres one url to this problem (where is no really answers):

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/6400/?o=0

Although I think that the prob is in pentiums HLT function (sound
comes from motherboard, from voltage regulators maybe. HLT makes them
vibrate ). My best guess is that HLT is system that puts CPU
totally idle when it is not needed. HLT command exists to tell
processors to take a break for a while . I noticed this sound in
older games where cpu is not 100% loaded. I found program CPUIDLE
(forgot url) what solved my prob. CPUIDLE is software- based
idlesystem what replaces HLT (guess again). Though when i packed mpg
to smaller, fps reduced dramatically when cpuidle was runnin.
Otherwise, there have been no difference in benchmarks (like pcmark)
when i tested CPUIDLE on/off.

Dunno then, will there be bios updates or somethin what fixes this.

 

[AgoneR]

Okay, heres one url to this problem (where is no really answers):

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/6400/?o=0

Although I think that the prob is in pentiums HLT function (sound
comes from motherboard, from voltage regulators maybe. HLT makes them
vibrate ). My best guess is that HLT is system that puts CPU
totally idle when it is not needed. HLT command exists to tell
processors to take a break for a while . I noticed this sound in
older games where cpu is not 100% loaded. I found program CPUIDLE
(forgot url) what solved my prob. CPUIDLE is software- based
idlesystem what replaces HLT (guess again). Though when i packed mpg
to smaller, fps reduced dramatically when cpuidle was runnin.
Otherwise, there have been no difference in benchmarks (like pcmark)
when i tested CPUIDLE on/off.

Dunno then, will there be bios updates or somethin what fixes this.

 

[AgoneR]

Okay, heres one url to this problem (where are no really answers):

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/6400/?o=0

Although I think that the prob is in HLT function (sound comes from
motherboard, from voltage regulators maybe. HLT makes them vibrate
(?)). My best guess is that HLT is system that puts CPU totally idle
when it is not needed. HLT command exists to tell processors to take
a break for a while . I noticed this sound in older games where cpu
is not 100% loaded. I found program CPUIDLE (forgot url) what solved
my prob. CPUIDLE is software- based idlesystem what replaces HLT
(guess again). Though when i packed mpg to smaller, fps reduced
dramatically when cpuidle was runnin. Otherwise, there have been no
difference in benchmarks (like pcmark) when i tested CPUIDLE on/off.

WPCREDIT- thing in that url is also about this same thing and worth
for reading.

Dunno then, will there be bios updates or somethin what fixes this.