Funny noise when scrolling?

[Chris230291]

Hello. I've recently noticed a squeaky noise coming from my rig sometimes when i scroll. Is this likely to be the graphics card or something else? Other than some of the storage, the GPU is the oldest part of the rig, which is why i suspect it over other bits.

Has anyone got any advice or experience with this?

Cheers,
Chris.

 

[SavageCupcake]

Coil whine probably. My 7870 whines when loading gta 4 and thats it 0.0. My mates old 580 used to do it in fifa 13. It's a strange one really.

 

[maniac]

From personal experience my main squeak noise is the psu fan although it only switches on when there is a decent load on it. So it can be any fan in your system, I don't really know how scrolling can affect any hardware though cause the hard disk is constantly being accessed.

UNLESS it is the scroll wheel itself lol but I'm guessing you're sure its not it

You could also try cleaning the fans and heatsinks with some compressed air.

regards
maniac

 

[SuB]

coil whine usually, because the display is being updated it's kick a noise out. Mine used to do it ALL the time.

 

[Jeff_s510]

i use to get the same squealing noise? i guess that's how to describe it, when i would scroll through pages or playing video/games on my pc. anything that made the gpu do any kind of work at all i would get the squealing/buzzing? noise through my headset or speakers. when i installed my new psu tho all the noises went away. is the noise coming from your speakers/headset? or from inside the computer its self?

 

[Chris230291]

Thanks for all of the replies guys. I suspected coil whine but it seemed strange that scrolling web pages can bring it on.

It doesn't appear to come from my speakers.

I have NO fans lol. Just the CPU, GPU and PSU ones which are all silent with the exception of the CPU one (stock Intel )

My mouse is a Magic Mouse, so no wheel.

I got a new Mobo like 1 month ago now. When i fitted everything to it i ran an air blower over all of my components, so it's all clean.

 

[SieB]

Is your mouse cable touching you speaker cable by any chance? I had this happen to me and it was because my mouse cable was touching my speaker cable, as soon as I moved the cables the noise stopped.

 

[SuB]

it's not cables, it's coil whine lads...

When you scroll, your display is updating, this is coming out ya speakers!

Try chucking a ferous magnet thingy on the cable and/or picking up a more protected soundcard from the Asus range. (helped mine no-end).

I bet, if you look at a page with a flash banner, let go of your mouse, when the flash banner changes frame, you get the same noise (thus proving NOT cables)

 

[Chris230291]

Yeah my mouse is wireless, no cable.

The noise definitely isn't coming from the speakers. Still happens when they are turned off.

Im happy, going by the comments, that it's just coil whine on the GPU.

 

[jamesriley94]

I used to have exactly the same thing.
Scrolling on webpages mainly, and more so with the scroll wheel than with the slider down the right?
Also for me seemed to happen more on white pages than anything else?

If that sounds about right then there's a couple of things you can do to make it better, but I never found a proper fix.

 

[GBcf]

Turn off hardware acceleration in your browser...

 

[Chris230291]

Sorry. I forgot about this because it's stopped doing it.

 

[Netroxen]

I'm pretty sure I know why this happens. Yes, it is coil whine but how would it be induced from scrolling...? Well it's pretty simple really. Because the web browser isn't frame limited by any measurable degree, when you start scrolling, the transition of images and text moving across the screen means the graphics card is processing a ridiculous amount of fps for something relatively simple. So, essentially your card is running topped out but at a very low gpu usage (Hence why the fans don't spin up). And that, my friend - Is why you hear coil whine while scrolling.

 

[SeekaX]

my laptop does that when i scroll down, quite annoying.

 

[stevebarnes15]

You can try disabling both hardware accelaration for sound and video one at a time to see if either of these are causing issues.
Or Go to Master volume controls, select the "advanced" button under Microphone and uncheck mic boost as this sometimes can cause issues to.

Also i read that gpu's ask for sole use of the pci bus during direct memory access to make operations quicker, and can interfere with sound cards in short intervals which is audibily noticeable.