Strange noise...coming from INSIDE my PC?

[Sapphiron]

The sound is coming from your memory. Some cheaper brands of memory generate a "sand grinding" noise when they are placed under heavy load. Like when you have photoshop open, or when a game is loading a level.

Don't worry about it it is normal.

 

[JTech]

Some cheaper brands of memory generate a "sand grinding" noise when they are placed under heavy load. Like when you have photoshop open, or when a game is loading a level

The Cyrix processors used to do this aswell. One of my machines from yonks ago that I pieced together when I was a student, used to make a faint hissing noise on the motherboard when video was played, and it did that from brand new. That PC died in flames 2 years later, the entire thing burnt out

 

[killadoob]

maybe its the hdd?

 

[Prometheus]

OK everytime i'm in photoshop or microsoft word and I do any type of scrolling theres a strange noise that sounds like it's coming from inside my pc..maybe from the pc speaker? anyone have any idea why? it's been like this since i had my machine and it's getting irritating now.

Will do...can I unplug the PC speaker wire from the mobo while the computer is still on?

Perfectly safe to do that. I never switch off to plug or unplug a pc speaker and a pc is yet to even freeze on me for that. .

Try a defrag. Could just be the drive head having to work overtime. Since my pc isn't in a case atm I have becomed accustomed to it by now and can repeatedly hear the heads moving whenever I open something. When the noise stops then you know the drive is dead.

 

[JTech]

everytime i'm in photoshop or microsoft word and I do any type of scrolling theres a strange noise that sounds like it's coming from inside my pc

Based on the full conditions given above, I doubt it is any of the suggestions except the one made about memory. It is obvious with the scrolling that the image data or text has to be shifted vertically in the buffer allocated inside main memory and this is a very rapid and burst-like, so the memory makes some noise. It is either the system memory or the memory on the video card. I would recommend as a test you replace your RAM and then your graphics card and see if it is still there. A scroll operation would hardly every justify an intensive read from the hard disk. The clue is that it is happening whenever there is an intensive graphics operation and I am willing to bet your PC does this too when you run a 3D graphics application with the speakers completely disconnected.

 

[werner]

I'm just gonna sit this one out in the corner, while I mumble about capacitors and how there is pretty much nothing that can be done about it.

 

[feo]

ok i havent had a chance to look properly but its not the PC speaker. I also have a feeling its the RAM but ill post back once ive looked inside the case. Im on holiday now and too lazy . Thanks for all the replies so far.