- Jul 8, 2014
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Hi all,
So I have this issue with my PC where I'm not sure if I should be concerned. It used to be that sometimes my PC would make this rapid clicking/crackling noise every once in a while for a few minutes, and I had always just assumed it was my 9 year old WD 1TB hard drive. Lately though it's been just constant - I turn on the PC, its silent for a while, then without me even noticing at some point this noise just starts and doesn't end until I shut down the computer.
The PC itself works 100%, I have zero problems with it at all, even the 9 year old WD hard drive still reads and writes at good speeds, no bad sectors. Now when I finally decided its time to investigate, because this is a relatively newly built PC (about 1 year old) and I don't want it dying on me, I opened up the 2 side panels and tried to pinpoint the source. It is definitely not the hard drives, as when I open the back to get to the HDD cage, its near silent (with the mobo backplate blocking the sound), so it must be coming from the "front". Honestly, to me it sounds like its coming from the south bridge, or thereabouts.
Before I go any further, here is a demo:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD3gmSuaen8
Please ignore the dust, I haven't clead this PC in a few months now and my room is quite dusty. I don't think its the GPU making that noise, its definitely not any fans and I cannot find anything that would be vibrating. With nearly all moving parts eliminated I have no idea what else it could be, so maybe someone here could tell me something I hadn't thought of, or where I may be wrong? When I point the camera towards the back of the case, its to point the microphone at (first) the hard drive cage, then I move it further towards the back, so the mic points at the south bridge, which is when the noise gets louder, hence why I suspect that as the source location.
If you need any more info/recorinding of specific locations, let me know and I'll get them.
Thanks!
P.S.: It couldn't be the NVMe drive, could it? This exact noise I've heard coming from my work laptop before, which has no hard drive, just an NVMe SSD and the noise happens occasionally when reading/writing lots of small files - but my PC produces this noise constantly, even when the PC has been idle for hour(s).
So I have this issue with my PC where I'm not sure if I should be concerned. It used to be that sometimes my PC would make this rapid clicking/crackling noise every once in a while for a few minutes, and I had always just assumed it was my 9 year old WD 1TB hard drive. Lately though it's been just constant - I turn on the PC, its silent for a while, then without me even noticing at some point this noise just starts and doesn't end until I shut down the computer.
The PC itself works 100%, I have zero problems with it at all, even the 9 year old WD hard drive still reads and writes at good speeds, no bad sectors. Now when I finally decided its time to investigate, because this is a relatively newly built PC (about 1 year old) and I don't want it dying on me, I opened up the 2 side panels and tried to pinpoint the source. It is definitely not the hard drives, as when I open the back to get to the HDD cage, its near silent (with the mobo backplate blocking the sound), so it must be coming from the "front". Honestly, to me it sounds like its coming from the south bridge, or thereabouts.
Before I go any further, here is a demo:
Please ignore the dust, I haven't clead this PC in a few months now and my room is quite dusty. I don't think its the GPU making that noise, its definitely not any fans and I cannot find anything that would be vibrating. With nearly all moving parts eliminated I have no idea what else it could be, so maybe someone here could tell me something I hadn't thought of, or where I may be wrong? When I point the camera towards the back of the case, its to point the microphone at (first) the hard drive cage, then I move it further towards the back, so the mic points at the south bridge, which is when the noise gets louder, hence why I suspect that as the source location.
If you need any more info/recorinding of specific locations, let me know and I'll get them.
Thanks!
P.S.: It couldn't be the NVMe drive, could it? This exact noise I've heard coming from my work laptop before, which has no hard drive, just an NVMe SSD and the noise happens occasionally when reading/writing lots of small files - but my PC produces this noise constantly, even when the PC has been idle for hour(s).
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