Eliminating coil whine

[S_I_N]

try moving the rig to a different room in the house on a separate circuit if it is indeed the house causing it ....it may just help determine the source. I'm jinxing myself here but I have never had a card with coil whine in my decades of computing.

 

[steverebo]

First I've heard of it although I have recently had my electrics redone in my house so everything is perfect of that front.

This card isn't as loud as my first one but it's still audible. I'm ready to just chuck in the towel and get an xbox

 

[S_I_N]

Send me the card lol I'll test it in my rig

 

[Bartacus]

Are you on a UPS or just plugged into the wall?

 

[steverebo]

I'm using a surge protector strip, tried directly from the socket and no difference.

I have however noticed a buzz from my PSU and suspect this may be the cause of my problems, Ive requested an RMA with corsair which has been authorised so fingers crossed

 

[Tolemac]

I'm using a surge protector strip, tried directly from the socket and no difference.

I have however noticed a buzz from my PSU and suspect this may be the cause of my problems, Ive requested an RMA with corsair which has been authorised so fingers crossed

I had the same issue with my GS800 and Strix 970. I found it very strange because when I put a 290X in my rig there was no buzzing from the PSU. I ended up buying a Superflower Leadex 750W and never looked back

 

[S_I_N]

its possible you got a bad psu to replace a suspected psu keep us updated I'm still scratching my head on this one.

 

[evilcorp]

Have you taken the sound card out and tried running it without? Im only asking as a friend had a recent problem with coil whine with an Asus raid soundcard

 

[steverebo]

Yep tried without the sound card. I have noticed another issue don't know if it's just down to a unstable overclock on my gpu or cpu but I'm getting sporadic crashes but they are not what I would consider normal, my game will freeze and then after about 30 seconds my system will just hard reset and reboot no blue screen or anything else like it suddenly lost power

Any ideas of this could be related to the psu?

 

[evilcorp]

Yep tried without the sound card. I have noticed another issue don't know if it's just down to a unstable overclock on my gpu or cpu but I'm getting sporadic crashes but they are not what I would consider normal, my game will freeze and then after about 30 seconds my system will just hard reset and reboot no blue screen or anything else like it suddenly lost power

Any ideas of this could be related to the psu?

What errors are you getting in windows event viewer aroun the time of the crash? Whats in application and system? When sorting out any issue the first step for me is to set everything back to stock and re test.

 

[steverebo]

This is the error shown directly before the crash so looks like OC stability

A corrected hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Corrected Machine Check
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor APIC ID: 0

 

[S_I_N]

do you have the asrock software installed?? I know some software from my gigabyte and msi boards played hell with my comp crashing alot til I found out which is was and un installed it. Try turning off the software control panel )if installed) and trying it ut then.

 

[steverebo]

No I hate bloatware so I leave it all uninstalled, I think I'm having issues with the driver I'm using for my ac8620 Wi-Fi card maybe that is the issue causing my crashes

 

[evilcorp]

The error you have seen can be caused by a number of factors like poor
Poor voltage regulation (i.e. power supply problem)
- Damage due to power spikes - I have seen this a couple of times but the tell tale was usually a disk outage
- Static damage to the motherboard. I have seen this issue very rarely
- Incorrect processor voltage setting in the BIOS (too low or too high)
- Overclocking
- Power supply damage. Loading the rails with too much voltage or too much droop when loaded
- Excessive temperature
- Defective hardware that may be drawing excessive power or otherwise disrupting proper voltage regulation

I would return everything to stock manually set the voltage for cpu in uefi. Use a clean windows install and then try and replicate the problem with the least amount of devices plugged and only essential software.

 

[Korreborg]

Are you using custom psu cables?

 

[S_I_N]

yes he is and said he tried the stock cables as well.

 

[Korreborg]

yes he is and said he tried the stock cables as well.

Sorry :nutkick::banghead: :blush::alcoholic:

 

[steverebo]

Sorted my advanced RMA with corsair, it's always bothered me that you have to pay return postage for items that you bought and end up being faulty