Computer is Whining at Me?

Originally Posted by Xboxster

What I mean by whine is a high pitched noise. You know, like it would come from your ears instead of a PC (which is what I thought it was at first).

The PSU is one of the things that was mentioned. I may try that first.

I think I know what you're talking about, especially the ear thing. Try connecting the bare minimum of stuff to your PC to make it run and try it. If it happens every time to try to feed it power, it's likely your PSU.

Mind did the same thing before croaking. Anyone know what causes it to make that noise? Electricity making it's components vibrate?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Heat, maybe? You've basically given the computer far more cool air than what was available in the case, so maybe the PSU was overheating?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Murdercrow

NO.

Opening the side panel does NOT give more cool air than you'd think. It can actually make your computer HOTTER, because the airflow is wrecked. Unless he's got a box fan blowing into the computer, it won't make much of a difference.

If his airflow is terrible, just opening the case would help. I should've made that clear when I first mentioned it, but eh. Again, it sounds like his airflow is pretty shitty inside the case, and it's causing something to happen to the PSU. Like others said before, that's probably the source of the instability.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Murdercrow

No, what I was saying is that OPENING the side panel wrecks the airflow. Look at it this way: you have a 120mm fan (at best) moving... about 1 to 1 1/2 cubic feet of air (from a general guesstimate) when the case is closed. When you open the side panel, not only are you removing any fans that may have been on it, you're also making the other fans go from moving that relatively small amount of air to moving the ENTIRE room's air. Opening the side panel can only make the computer hotter, since what may have been sufficient for cooling the entire computer before may now only be moving air over half the parts at best.

I'm just saying that maybe his airflow is bad enough that the heat, for the most part, is staying in the case and when he pulls the panel off, it comes out of the computer.

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