High Pitched Noise from Motherboard

[cbuchach]

Well, I own an Asus P5W DH and have recently noticed a high-pitched noise coming from the computer. I initially thought it was a fan but sequentially unplugged all the fans and then started up without my harddrives and video card until ontly the MB, CPU, and memory was installed. The noise seems to be coming from the CPU socket area. Does anyone have any idea what component could be causing this? I may try to get he board replaced and more info would be appreciated.

It is the type of noise that can come and go if you move your head in certain ways and is rather subtle though very high-pitched.

 

[stevolution]

Could be caps or coil on the mobo... is the noise constant or varies in amplitude and frequency? Noise variance depends on what you are doing? I came across hardwares that when you actually do something like access harddrives or do something cpu/ram intensive and the noise is produced according to the amount of stress you are putting on the hardware. I don't think you can do anything about it... think maybe ageing components...

 

[40sTheme]

Hmm, that sounds alot like a capacitor issue. ^ As stevolution said. I dunno if it is hardware stress though...

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

EDIT: I will refrain from posting in these types of threads until it is apparent the OP is mature, not a child looking for a quick fix.

 

[cbuchach]

Originally posted by: stevolution
Could be caps or coil on the mobo... is the noise constant or varies in amplitude and frequency? Noise variance depends on what you are doing? I came across hardwares that when you actually do something like access harddrives or do something cpu/ram intensive and the noise is produced according to the amount of stress you are putting on the hardware. I don't think you can do anything about it... think maybe ageing components...

It doesn't seem to vary with anything I am doing on the system. Wether I/O intesive or CPU intensive.

And from what you guys have said, it might be a good idea to RMA it as potentially this might signify some bad components rather than just an annoyance.

I did check into this earlier and for Asus warranty support it says to contact the reseller. Can I RMA it directly to Asus by any chance?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: cbuchach
I did check into this earlier and for Asus warranty support it says to contact the reseller. Can I RMA it directly to Asus by any chance?

Yes you can. Don't bother filling out the form on their site even if you do find it but call them directly. They don't seem to respond to online requests in my experience. Here is the phone number: 510-739-3777
Be sure to have your board serial number ready.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

N/M

 

[cbuchach]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
N/M

Sorry about the missed questions,

THe motherboard and PSU are each about 4 months old now. As far as temps, very low; I have very good airflow over the CPU area and it has been used mostly during the winter in Michigan and I keep my condo cool. As far as load, rather heavy; the system is always on, it is overclocked and always runs Seti@Home with 100% CPU utilization.

 

[cbuchach]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
EDIT: I will refrain from posting in these types of threads until it is apparent the OP is mature, not a child looking for a quick fix.

I have answered your questions. I am not a child and in fact am a working physician (though I can't deny that the quicker the fix the better, though the consideration of RMAing a MB is not exactly quick and would put out my primary system for some time).

I would appreciate the information you previously posted and was actually going to the websites you suggest before you prematurely edited the post.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

I am of the firm opinion that ASUS boards are suffering from cold solder joints (Google it)
because of the change in production to meet RoHS certification standards (Google it).
Motherboard capacitors MUST be low ESR (Google it) and a cold joint increases resistance
and as a direct result ESR is increased to the point that the capacitor/s in question run way
outside of specification. Normally ESR will inrease over a number of years not months.

Phone ASUS for an RMA.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

You can read and post at http://www.badcaps.net/

 

[cbuchach]

Thanks for the info. I actually had been to that site years ago in association with the run of bad capacitors that had been primarily attributed to some abit boards.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

At this point in time, I'd buy a high end Abit board over an ASUS.
Things do change, some for the better, others for the worse.

ASUS is good but they are poping up with strange problems. These things should be caught in the batch testing they do. *shakes head*