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mishimaBeef said:
Recently noticed that when I was running a heavy graphics intensive mission of starcraft 2, I heard a medium speed ticking noise. I opened my case and put my ear next to the parts and it seems to be coming from the video card. Any ideas?
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Is the fan blowing? If so then you're probably hearing the VRMs working hard under heavy load. Nothing to be concerned about.
 
Oh one more thing, the first time that was happening I plugged in my headset and the computer crashed. What do you think? It hasn't crashed since and I re-simulated the exact thing and it caused a brief lag instead of crashing the second time.

EDIT: By crash I mean total stall out. First the screen froze and the mouse was movable. Then after about a minute the mouse cursor froze too. Alt tab and task manager wasn't coming up so I had to use the reboot button on the case.
 
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mishimaBeef said:
Oh one more thing, the first time that was happening I plugged in my headset and the computer crashed. What do you think? It hasn't crashed since and I re-simulated the exact thing and it caused a brief lag instead of crashing the second time.

EDIT: By crash I mean total stall out. First the screen froze and the mouse was movable. Then after about a minute the mouse cursor froze too. Alt tab and task manager wasn't coming up so I had to use the reboot button on the case.
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Were you plugging it into the front panel headphone jack? If so, you might want to check to see whether or not you correctly plugged the audio connection block into the header on mobo. Make sure it isn't flipped around or that you aren't using the AC'97 block instead of the Azalia one.
 
Yes I was plugging it into the front panel headphone and microphone jack.

I believe I used the HDA input not the AC'97. It might be flipped around sure but it works fine every time. Is it still possibly flipped around then? Do you think that caused the crash during heavy graphics loading?
 
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