CPU Whine, PSU Voltage, SSD Corruption and other questions.

[esthreel]

Hello everyone! I built a PC about a year ago, but it was nothing but troubles.


First of all it has an annoying beep sound when I move my mouse. Sort of like a morse code. As far as I found out I have to live with that, nothing to fix that.

So here goes my questions:

1. My PSU (CORSAIR TX650 V2) has some veird voltages. The 12V rail stays 11.7V idle, 11.6V full load, is that normal? Also are other voltages good?

2. If i reset my PC, or get a bluescreen I always lose data from M4 SDD. Like when I boot up after: do you want to allow skype trough firewall, jing settings lost, configure? almost all apps lose their settings.

3. Sometimes my MOBO does not see my SSD, like its not connected at all. I reset the BIOS or change the SATA port ant it works.

4. Sometimes my USB does not work, the mouse or keyboard does not light up, I reset and it works.

5. Warnings pops up like your VDDA is at 0.12V. Or other crazy numbers. No bluescreens.

I also had tons of problems with my radeon MSI 6870 Hawk. On reviews it OCed to 1150. Stock 930. I was able to get to 975 stable, more and the artifacts show up. I paid a lot for OC potential on that card, now it started to black out. Display driver stopped. I tried reinstaling OS, put it in a different PC, same results, constant hangs. (it is currently in service)

And my Creative X-Fi was not working many times. Device stopped or something like that, After going to device manager, remove device, search for changes, installing it worked. But sometimes I get a BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP sound trough my speakers, very very loud after a reboot ir works again. Now for some reason the card has been working flawlessly for past 2 months. I am not sure why.
I am quite sure I made the wrong choice selecting my motherboard, but I can not send it to be repaired, it sort of works 90% of the time and I was unable to replicate any problems, they just happen. I tried upgrading BIOS, no improvement. Also maybe it is the PSU?
(I tried bringing working electronics to a service center here in Lithuania, every time they get back. It was tested and working. The don't care if it caused you problems, it has to be dead to be replaced, or something like the usb does not work at all)

Sorry for my poor english, I hope you understood. Please answer any questions from the numbered list, thanks.

 

[mfenn]

I think you have two problems:

1. Bad SSD. Losing data upon reboot is a classic sign of an SSD that has gone bad. Try making some obvious file with known contents and seeing if they persist upon reboot. For example, open notepad and save "Hello This is a Test" as C:\test.txt.

2. Inconsistent power delivery. Your voltage rails look absolutely fine (within 2% of spec), but that says nothing about any transient conditions that happen too fast for the monitoring to catch. Of course, it could also be that the PSU is perfectly fine but the motherboard is screwing up the voltage regulation. Or it could simply be dirty incoming power. The best way to troubleshoot this is to swap components with known good units until you isolate the source of the problems.

 

[GAO]

As aid, the voltages are within the ATX spec (5%) but voltages measured through a chip and software are not that accurate (as opposed to a digital voltmeter). Don't worry about them though.

For rhe SSD, do you have write cache flushing disabled? That certainly would cause you to loose data by resetting the machine rather than shutting it down cleanly. But even if you don;t have that disabled,m you can loose data resetting the machine instead of shutting it down cleanly.

Not being recognized seems to be an issue with a lot of SSD. The M4 had a firmware release that did this. What version is your firmware?

 

[esthreel]

As aid, the voltages are within the ATX spec (5%) but voltages measured through a chip and software are not that accurate (as opposed to a digital voltmeter). Don't worry about them though.

For rhe SSD, do you have write cache flushing disabled? That certainly would cause you to loose data by resetting the machine rather than shutting it down cleanly. But even if you don;t have that disabled,m you can loose data resetting the machine instead of shutting it down cleanly.

Not being recognized seems to be an issue with a lot of SSD. The M4 had a firmware release that did this. What version is your firmware?

Voltages.
I was told to test them with a volt meter. +12V stayed rock solid under testing 12.04 - 12.06. Seasonic quality.

SSD.
Yes I disabled write caching, now I updated to the lastest FW and enabled catching. No data loss so far.