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Mostly new PC emits high tone and crashes in Windows setup

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Allubz

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Dear Tech'ers,

Over the weekend I collected a few system parts:
ASUS P8P67-B3
Intel 2600K

Own parts:
ASUS HD5870 1GB V2
Zalman ZM600-HP (modular, a few years old)
RAM

The 2600K is used and supposedly bought in working order. The CPU came packaged in toilet paper in a quality box with a lot of protection material in it. There was a bit of hardened thermal gresae on the contact side of it - I cleaned this when I re-assembled the system.
The P8P67-B3 is bought in new-state as it was a return from the B3-revision send-in. It's not tested on defects, but new out of the box.
There's no issue with the RAM is it was taken from a working system and I have another 4 sets of DDR3 laying around which all functin perfectly fine.
The GPU has been working without problems to date.

So from my old setup, which had a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 and Phenom II X2 555 (@ X4 3,8GHz), I only changed out the mobo and CPU.

The following problems occur:
- When I start the PC a high tone (frequency-tone) is continually emitted from the CPU-area. It's like a tinitus sound (the one you can have after listening to some very loud sound). This tone does NOT occur when I remove the GPU (which of course had it's PCI-E cables connected and double-checked).
- It seems the PC is endlessly stable in the BIOS. As soon as I Windows setup and the copying is finished so the PC starts unpacking, it doesn't take long (random time) and he PC resets. Only once it resetted before unpacking, but then I accidentally clicked the "Upgrade" option, but I'm not sure whether the PC registered this click.

I'm sure nothing happened to my PSU in the meantime. I turned off the PC the normal way and directly switched out the mobo+CPU - no big downtime inbetween. Moreover, I disassembled and reassembled the previous AMD CPU+mobo at least 20 times last year, because of my review work.
It's fairly impossible the CPU would be overheating as it hangs below 40c in BIOS and is under watercooling.

What surprises me with this issue is that the CPU obviously isn't (completely) broken, but the sound seems to emit from it. Also the motherboard can barely be broken, as it's new out of the box.

So up to this moment I reassembled the system twice to no avail. GPU in the second PCI-E gives same result.

After a CMOS reset I got this message: "power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit!"

Anyone input on this, it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!
 
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The high pitched whining sound you report has been mentioned before, it is the gpu on the processor. It doesn't usually mean there is a problem. I notice it during the WEI test on my 2500k.
 
But there does seem to be a problem, as I get continues reboots and it can't even finish installing Win7.

The GPU doesn't give this sound on the AMD setup, not before and not after I put AMD back in after messing with this Intel mobo+CPU.
 
I am not saying that there isn't a problem just that the high pitched whine you are hearing may have absolutly nothing to do with it.
 
Yeah but it's so... odd. And it doesn't happen on the other setup, only related to this specific Intel 2600K setup. But I get what you mean 😉
 
The noise is probably from the power circuit around the cpu area. Since the only new items are the cpu and motherboard, I would suspect the motherboard in this case.
 
Yep that's probably it, thanks for all your thoughts! As soon as I get the receipt (should be today or tomorrow), I'll return the board.

As far as Everest tells me, and the BIOS of the P8P67 did, the PSU voltages are all in the green zones.
 
paul878 said:
The noise is probably from the power circuit around the cpu area. Since the only new items are the cpu and motherboard, I would suspect the motherboard in this case.
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I have no idea if p8p67s have been reported making high pitched squeeling noises from the power circuit around the cpu and i don't think you do either. As there is definate proof (even a video i have seen on youtube) of sandy bridge chips producing these sounds from the onboard gpu i fail to see why you would suspect the motherboard. I can replicate the noises the OP is describing on my 2500k rig right now by running WEI, what prooof do you have that he has a faulty mobo other than a random guess? My best guess and it is only a guess is that the cpu you bought that "supposedly" works and was packed in tissue paper is bricked.
 
It is possible, indeed.

I'll have to see whether I can make sure if it's either mobo or CPU. It would be great to find a place to simply test the CPU.
 
Puppies04 said:
I have no idea if p8p67s have been reported making high pitched squeeling noises from the power circuit around the cpu and i don't think you do either. As there is definate proof (even a video i have seen on youtube) of sandy bridge chips producing these sounds from the onboard gpu i fail to see why you would suspect the motherboard. I can replicate the noises the OP is describing on my 2500k rig right now by running WEI, what prooof do you have that he has a faulty mobo other than a random guess? My best guess and it is only a guess is that the cpu you bought that "supposedly" works and was packed in tissue paper is bricked.
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I can't see how a piece of silicon can make such noise, can you give the link on youtube.
 
Allubz, you are describing the symptoms of faulty/failing capacitors - in the case of computers, the ones on the mobo are nearly always the culprits, though I have seen it happen in PSUs as well.

(I think that is what paul878 means as well.)

You can take the lo-fi approach - open the case and use you ears to determine the source.
 
It's what I did. It's at / around the CPU area, which is indeed full of them capacitors. I also think it's related to the motherboard, but it's just hard to say if there's a used CPU in place and a brand new mobo.

I'm going to try to get it tested or RMA'd right away, today.
 
99% of the mobo being the culprit (or at least a culprit). I have never heard of CPUs making a noise.
 
paul878 said:
I can't see how a piece of silicon can make such noise, can you give the link on youtube.
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Seems the couple of threads i had read on the net both came to the wrong conclusion (assuming the more detailed investigation i have done now is any more reliable). There are many, many people complaining of these noises and the culprit is the mobo area around the cpu. Try putting "high pitched noise from I5" into google. The problem seems to crop up on lots of diffent intel "I" flavour boards. I can still replicate the noise by running WEI but i have never noticed it at any other time and it is rather noticible as the room i run my rig in is silent almost all the time.
 
Now that you mention it, it seems to be all over the place.

That could mean, though, that my load-crashes aren't related to the sound. Either that, or something is terribly broken and for that reason also produces the sound.

I'm curious as to whether ASUS will send me a new or 'repaired' board. It's going to take at least two weeks, though, knowing ASUS.
 
Will soon enough know whether the CPU is borked or not, picking up a GENE-Z tomorrow. Don't want to wait for ASUS' extremely latent RMA process.
 
oynaz said:
Allubz, you are describing the symptoms of faulty/failing capacitors - in the case of computers, the ones on the mobo are nearly always the culprits, though I have seen it happen in PSUs as well.

(I think that is what paul878 means as well.)

You can take the lo-fi approach - open the case and use you ears to determine the source.
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Yep. Caps are what will squeal. It is possible that the new board is drawing more power than the old causing the caps in the PSU to squeal, but I would suspect the motherboard first.
 
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