Hi there.
On Tuesday while gaming my computer suddenly began revving up and the CPU fan or fans of the GPU started making a horrible grinding/crackling noise. This happened a few months before on July 30, 2022 and lasted until I rolled my drivers back on August 7, 2022. I posted on the AMD forums about it but never got a reply. My PC is pretty old at almost 9-years-old and I'm planning on getting a new one soon, but I only recently upgraded to a new GPU in July 2021.
My current specs are:
The game I was in was Bridge Constructor Portal which doesn't seem to be all that demanding and I was getting around 60 FPS so I'm a little lost as to what could be causing this. I also cleaned my PC the day before. I tried to reproduce the sound today but it didn't return immediately, as it had been doing the previous days. I tried several games and managed to get it to produce the noises with Half-Life 2 with vsync off, though even with vsync on it still happens and comes and goes randomly. It hasn't done it outside of a game yet which makes me think that it has something to do with the GPU or at least related to running games, or that maybe the CPU is doing too much. My system is bottlenecked but I don't run very demanding games.
I took a few recordings of the sounds it was making and screenshots of information from AMD Radeon Settings, Task Manager, CPUID and Speccy while all this was going on. My temperatures look okay as they usually idle around these anyway but noticed some pretty high GPU and CPU usage.
I have a video from August 2022 and another from today. My fans are pretty loud but you can hear a crackling/whining like noise. In the video from today it stopped making the noise around half-way. I hadn't done anything other than tab out to take screenshots of the monitoring programs I had open. I had no other programs open in the August video other than a game. Sorry for the clicking in the second video!
August 2022
October 2022
Really sorry if it's hard to hear but it's kinda like a whining or whistling with crackling.
AMD Radeon Settings
View: https://imgur.com/ZCzUtBu
Task Manager
View: https://imgur.com/1Frx6Y7
CPUID Monitor
View: https://imgur.com/SkU0XpS
View: https://imgur.com/cAWR2Nh
Speccy
View: https://imgur.com/ZBwM2LG
Sorry if the above videos or screenshots don't give all that much information. I also saved a copy of the log from CPUID but not sure how to upload here without clogging up the thread as it's a pretty long file. I also noticed that in my screenshot of AMD Radeon Settings that it says that GPU usage was at 0%, though just before I screenshotted it was at 99%. I noticed that it seems to jump from almost 0% to 100% pretty frequently. Sorry if this thread is pretty nonsensical but I'm a bit stumped as I thought I had originally fixed this issue back in August after rolling back my drivers, I thought maybe I just unlucky and something when wrong in the install.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
On Tuesday while gaming my computer suddenly began revving up and the CPU fan or fans of the GPU started making a horrible grinding/crackling noise. This happened a few months before on July 30, 2022 and lasted until I rolled my drivers back on August 7, 2022. I posted on the AMD forums about it but never got a reply. My PC is pretty old at almost 9-years-old and I'm planning on getting a new one soon, but I only recently upgraded to a new GPU in July 2021.
My current specs are:
- CPU: AMD FX-4300
- RAM: 16 GB
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
- HDD: Seagate 2 TB
- PSU: XFX Pro 550W
- GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570
- Drivers: AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 22.8.2
- OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
- Monitor: Samsung C24F396FHU (1920x1080p)
The game I was in was Bridge Constructor Portal which doesn't seem to be all that demanding and I was getting around 60 FPS so I'm a little lost as to what could be causing this. I also cleaned my PC the day before. I tried to reproduce the sound today but it didn't return immediately, as it had been doing the previous days. I tried several games and managed to get it to produce the noises with Half-Life 2 with vsync off, though even with vsync on it still happens and comes and goes randomly. It hasn't done it outside of a game yet which makes me think that it has something to do with the GPU or at least related to running games, or that maybe the CPU is doing too much. My system is bottlenecked but I don't run very demanding games.
I took a few recordings of the sounds it was making and screenshots of information from AMD Radeon Settings, Task Manager, CPUID and Speccy while all this was going on. My temperatures look okay as they usually idle around these anyway but noticed some pretty high GPU and CPU usage.
I have a video from August 2022 and another from today. My fans are pretty loud but you can hear a crackling/whining like noise. In the video from today it stopped making the noise around half-way. I hadn't done anything other than tab out to take screenshots of the monitoring programs I had open. I had no other programs open in the August video other than a game. Sorry for the clicking in the second video!
August 2022
October 2022
Really sorry if it's hard to hear but it's kinda like a whining or whistling with crackling.
AMD Radeon Settings
View: https://imgur.com/ZCzUtBu
Task Manager
View: https://imgur.com/1Frx6Y7
CPUID Monitor
View: https://imgur.com/SkU0XpS
View: https://imgur.com/cAWR2Nh
Speccy
View: https://imgur.com/ZBwM2LG
Sorry if the above videos or screenshots don't give all that much information. I also saved a copy of the log from CPUID but not sure how to upload here without clogging up the thread as it's a pretty long file. I also noticed that in my screenshot of AMD Radeon Settings that it says that GPU usage was at 0%, though just before I screenshotted it was at 99%. I noticed that it seems to jump from almost 0% to 100% pretty frequently. Sorry if this thread is pretty nonsensical but I'm a bit stumped as I thought I had originally fixed this issue back in August after rolling back my drivers, I thought maybe I just unlucky and something when wrong in the install.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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