Singing computer

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

My computer is putting out a really high pitched whine and its killing me! Recently my speakers stopped working and my ipod usb cable screwed up beyond belief, depleting the battery, not charging it! Does anyone have any ideas?


A.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Sounds like a bad capacitor or battery about to go fzzzzzzzzzzt. Should start to smell and see smoke soon.

[luke]

in my Asus was the chip fan bearings. Changed mobo to non fan type.

[cheesegrater]

You changed the whole mobo because of a chipset fan? Why not just change chipset fan to a heatsink?

[Mushroom_Farmer]

in my Asus was the chip fan bearings. Changed mobo to non fan type.

I had a noisy CPU fan once. I just removed, disassembled, cleaned, lubricated, reassmbled and reinstalled the same fan.

I suggested a future failure based on the symptoms Andrew posted. A whining noise, power drained from his IPod battery, and sound card not working. All suggesting there is a significant power loss/drain somewhere.
Also I've heard batteries and capacitors whine from overheating just before they blow up.

[cheesegrater]

Yeah, since you are having all those problems at once it sounds like a serious hardware failure.

[luke]

The local supplier had a pile of those mobos (a8n-sli) returned & Asus were replacing them for a8n32-sli fanless.

[Bindoe]

Do you have an ATI video card? If so have you installed any fan controlling software?

I have an X850 and ATI tray tool caused it to emit a ear splitting whine, as it changed the PWM frequency.

[ctjoyce]

Do you have an ATI video card? If so have you installed any fan controlling software?

I have an X850 and ATI tray tool caused it to emit a ear splitting whine, as it changed the PWM frequency.

Well thats just because the cooler on that card is horrable.

Cheers
Cameron

[Bindoe]

Well thats just because the cooler on that card is horrable.

Cheers
Cameron

Yes. My IceQ is pretty cool,  but without it that card was around 80degrees with reports to much higher