Why does my cpu make noise

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whysoloud

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i have just built a silent PC (Antec p180, 10db 120mm fans, 100% passive cooling) 20c idle :) but whenever the computer is loading it makes a horrible clicking type noise, (most pentiums i have come across do this, its not a fault) is there any way i can stop this? im hopeing theres like a setting in the bios or something? what is it making the noise? is it a little speaker on the motherboard? :confused:

please help :(


thanks in advance
 
See, some computers are silent when they are stimulated. Some purr and some moan so loud they wake up the neighbors. :P

Ok.. Bad joke.

Anyways....

It's got nothing to do with the Pentium. Not one Pentium I've ever built (starting with a P133) ever made that kind of noise.

The clicking is most likely your HDD. To find out, take a flat head screwdriver. Take the side off your case and put the tip of the screwdriver on the side of your HDD. Stick the handle in your ear. It works somewhat like a stethoscope. If it's your HDD, you'll know it.
 
its the hard drive... did you replace the cpu fan? it could just be the stock cpu fan too. just try stopping fans and put your ear near the hard drive while the computer is on...
or, you could stick a screwdriver in your ear... whatever works for you. haha

if the hard drive is making a clicking noise i'd back up all your info and see what happens... maybe on some blank dvds?
 
CPU's don't make noise :) Oh and if the clicking noise is with your harddrive, which it probably is, if all the other heatsinks are passive, then it may be failing.
 
i thought that originally but i had had that harddrive in my games system minutes previously and not heard anything.. however that one is so noisey i probably wouldnt hear it scream bloody murder! will try it with the 10,000rpm SATA and see what happens

or.. hear what happens :D
 
whysoloud said:
(i hope this is posted in the right place, if not sorry, feel free to move it)

i have just built a silent PC (Antec p180, 10db 120mm fans, 100% passive cooling) 20c idle :) but whenever the computer is loading it makes a horrible clicking type noise, (most pentiums i have come across do this, its not a fault) is there any way i can stop this? im hopeing theres like a setting in the bios or something? what is it making the noise? is it a little speaker on the motherboard? :confused:

please help :(


thanks in advance
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If you EVER hear your processor make a single sound, then your in trouble. Its not your processor.
 
processors don't have moving parts. only thing that moves inside a computer is the fans and the hard drive.
i posted a hard drive silencer, and vantec makes noise dampening rubbers for fans if you like.
lol i used to have a vantec tornado with a vantec fan dampener and a fan controller. still was loud as heck even on the fan controllers lowest setting. of course at LAN parties i could just turn it way up to show off. thing was like a friggin hair dryer,probably like 100db or so, it was ridiculous. moved way more air than any 120mm and it was a 92mm... still in my drawer in fact lol...
 
fade2green514 said:
processors don't have moving parts. only thing that moves inside a computer is the fans and the hard drive..
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I could be a picky little bugger here and say that data moves inside a computer, electricity moves inside a computer, you might not physically see nor hear it, but it moves alright, and if it doesn't, your computer is a naffed one :)
 
Thats true. But in either case, you should never be able to hear your cpu lol. If you do, either your crazy or your cpu has major issues and is about to fry.
 
What you probably here, unless it is in fact a fan or harddrive, is probably a capaciter. If you guys don't beleive that you can "hear" a computer think, I'll see if one of these GX150's dad's brought home makes any noises. I know a few of the previous ones did...

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I just checked what dad had downstairs, and neither of them made the noise some of the previous ones had. But trust me, I know it was something on the motherboard. NOT a PC-Speaker, and nothing common like the drives or fans. They aren't the first computers to make such noises. I know my old KT7A(Athlon 1.4) did the same, but not as loud.
 
I know that in my Sony reciever i can hear the music inside the reciever itself : ). And its really not that old, but i hear in older sound equipment stuff you can hear the music if you listen closely. Its pretty cool really, but i have to crank it up pretty good which heats it up really fast. Oh, and i do that when the speakers arnt connected.
 
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