- Nov 4, 1999
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I noticed yesterday early afternoon a faint whine/buzz coming from my main PC, and as the afternoon went on it got slightly louder, so after slapping it made no difference lol , I thought I'd better pop the side off to make sure no wires were hitting a fan (similar noise), but nope! Anyway, it was dinner time so I left it til later. It was getting slightly noisier through the evening......
Come this morning it sounded like their was an angry wasp stuck inside! So I'm going to look into it now, sounds like it's coming from the lower end of the PC, so not the ancient Corsair PSU (~11yrs! lol) but maybe the mbrd or grx card.
The mbrd is fairly new so under warrantee (although that would be a royal PITA to RMA of course!), but the grx card is about 1 1/2 yrs old so probably out of warrantee? (I'll have to check, it's a Power Colour one [edit] 2yrs). I assume theirs no easy fix for failing power delivery circuits (would it likely be failing caps?).
Anyway, I'd better look into it now before it blows up & takes the whole rig out!
Wish me luck! ........
Come this morning it sounded like their was an angry wasp stuck inside! So I'm going to look into it now, sounds like it's coming from the lower end of the PC, so not the ancient Corsair PSU (~11yrs! lol) but maybe the mbrd or grx card.
The mbrd is fairly new so under warrantee (although that would be a royal PITA to RMA of course!), but the grx card is about 1 1/2 yrs old so probably out of warrantee? (I'll have to check, it's a Power Colour one [edit] 2yrs). I assume theirs no easy fix for failing power delivery circuits (would it likely be failing caps?).
Anyway, I'd better look into it now before it blows up & takes the whole rig out!
Wish me luck! ........
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