7950 sgueeling noise

[paulstung]

I've just put my gpu under water, everything was fine until about 10 mins ago, when it started crashing in the same place in crysis 3. I then noticed that it is making a strange noise. it's kind of like a squeel. I tried to load a different game, and all of a sudden it bsod. so I went through the motions . Hard shut down and restart, it tried a few times, then I had a message that the oc was not stable and has been reset to default. So i tried loading the game that shut down the rig, and as soon as it loaded the noise was back. Any ideas ?

 

[jamesriley94]

The noise sounds like cap whine.
I had it really badly on my old 7950 - so much so that I even tried to RMA the card.

Not really any definite cures though. I fixed the little cap whine I had on my 670 by folding on it for a couple of days - now it doesn't make a noise, so maybe try that.

Other than that, there aren't really many more options other than trying to push an RMA, but chances are you'll just have it returned, as it isn't really a fault with the card. Plus also, you'll have voided your warranty by putting it under water.

 

[paulstung]

The sound is odd, more squeak than whine. Why would it crash during then game, and bsod with a different game ? I've just checked some vids that's the noise. Cheers mate.

Regarding the bsod, and the unstable oc ( through oc genie @ 4.2 ) could that be, that the block is too tight on the cpu ? My power supply seems to have developed a noise now, it sounds like the fan. I swapped psu's just to be sure, but the gpu noise was still there.

 

[PetetheSweet]

Did You try to run the Card on Stock in the Games?
Whats the temps of the Card and the VRM while playing?
Maybe try Occt or Furmark to quick check the temps...

 

[paulstung]

The card was at stock, it was the cpu that was oc'd. It's strange how to things happened at the same time relating to different parts. My pump is making a noise now too. I'm going to leave it till the morning now, I'll update then.

 

[FTLN]

my 7950 squeels when when quitting a benchmark, almost like its de-charging itself of the built up energy.. Very strange, and I think we have the same pcb...

 

[paulstung]

It's ok during and after a benchmark , it is just as soon as the game title screen pops up, bam there it is. The pcb is a nice green color, I thought it would be that fugly, sapphire blue. But with the dark color scheme it almost looks black.

 

[NRG!]

'coil whine'

It'll do it on menu screens/ end of benchmarks because it's probably outputting 50k fps