[wellylug] I think my motherboards gone.... :-(

[Simon Antliff]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:45:41 +1300 (NZDT), David Antliff
<dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Brent Wood wrote:
> > Also note that you can sometimes hear memory when under load, a slight whine
> > there.
> 
> Finally, someone who agrees with me! When I told the guys at work that I
> can definitely HEAR my PC when it's working hard (especially rendering 3D
> graphics in realtime) they thought I was mad and have never looked at me
> in quite the same way again...
> 
> It's quite loud actually - I can hear it over music with headphones on. A
> high pitched squeal presumably correlated with increased power draw. It's
> most highly correlated with video card activity. It's not a fan.

Just for the record, mine does this too, but not as noticabley as David's.
We have the same cards, except mine is 64mb and his is 128mb (which
might strengthen the "memory under load" idea).

To the original poster:
I recently put together a new PC, and I dont think the power supply
was quite grunty enough. Anyway, a sort of quietish high pitch
screeching would come from around the CPU area when the CPU was under
heavy load. But now that I think of it, it was probably more due to
memory than cpu cycles.
Nevertheless, you seem to have found that it was faulty memory.