Hi everyone,
I have a fairly new Pc and it worked just fine until a couple days ago.
Here are the specs:
* Gigabyte B760 DS3H DDR4, bios version F5 (<- the troublesome part)
* Intel Core i7-13700
* GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
* BeQuiet PurePower 12M 850W
* G-Skill D4 32GB 4400-10 TZ Ripjaws V K2 GSK
* Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2 B M.2 2280
I started hearing this very high pichted noise coming from the Pc and it is really irritating.
It is not immediately there when I boot the system but it starts after about 3 minutes. I do not need to do any heavy tasks. Just idling on the Desktop is fine. It does not change under load. I tried some benchmarks, games, prime95 for CPU load, etc.
I've read about coil whine in graphics cards. In an attempt to track it down I removed the graphics card (and a some other peripherals). It turns out the sound is coming from the mainboard itself. I have roughly located it in the area I marked on the attached image (red area from top, rectangles from the side).
Another interesting thing I noticed is that the on-board graphics card makes my monitor go on and off in about 5 sec intervals. Not sure what that is about. Until now I did not have the need to use it so maybe this is another unrelated/older issue. Could even be the monitor. Just wanted to mention it in case these issues could be related.
This is the sound it makes:
https://geoathome.at/_stuff/MainboardSound.mp3
Sorry for the bad quality. I don't have a very good mic that I can squeeze in there. The sound itself is not very loud, yet so very high pitched it's really annonying (especially when you sit on the Pc for 8+ hours in home office). The recording does not do it justice.
If anyone has an idea what this could be or how to approach a fix I'd be greatful.
As a last resort I am thinking about buying a new board since this is driving me crazy.
I would be looking for high quality board suggestions too (price is not really an issue if it's silent).
Thank you for reading it all
I have a fairly new Pc and it worked just fine until a couple days ago.
Here are the specs:
* Gigabyte B760 DS3H DDR4, bios version F5 (<- the troublesome part)
* Intel Core i7-13700
* GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
* BeQuiet PurePower 12M 850W
* G-Skill D4 32GB 4400-10 TZ Ripjaws V K2 GSK
* Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2 B M.2 2280
I started hearing this very high pichted noise coming from the Pc and it is really irritating.
It is not immediately there when I boot the system but it starts after about 3 minutes. I do not need to do any heavy tasks. Just idling on the Desktop is fine. It does not change under load. I tried some benchmarks, games, prime95 for CPU load, etc.
I've read about coil whine in graphics cards. In an attempt to track it down I removed the graphics card (and a some other peripherals). It turns out the sound is coming from the mainboard itself. I have roughly located it in the area I marked on the attached image (red area from top, rectangles from the side).
Another interesting thing I noticed is that the on-board graphics card makes my monitor go on and off in about 5 sec intervals. Not sure what that is about. Until now I did not have the need to use it so maybe this is another unrelated/older issue. Could even be the monitor. Just wanted to mention it in case these issues could be related.
This is the sound it makes:
https://geoathome.at/_stuff/MainboardSound.mp3
Sorry for the bad quality. I don't have a very good mic that I can squeeze in there. The sound itself is not very loud, yet so very high pitched it's really annonying (especially when you sit on the Pc for 8+ hours in home office). The recording does not do it justice.
If anyone has an idea what this could be or how to approach a fix I'd be greatful.
As a last resort I am thinking about buying a new board since this is driving me crazy.
I would be looking for high quality board suggestions too (price is not really an issue if it's silent).
Thank you for reading it all
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