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Ram making funny noise, Memory |
 Nov 7 2009, 09:14 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-November 09 Member No.: 69,398  |
Noisy Ram
Has this happened to anyone before or is it something I am doing wrong. I have an ASUS P6TD Deluxe board and was running 6GB of Ram (Corsair Dominator) After I installed an extra 6GB of ram each time the ram is accessed by the system you hear a very high pitched squeak. This is especially noticable when running Prime95 - constant squeak, and when running memtest each time a calculation is done you hear a squeak. Begins to sound like you are attached to a monitor when memtest is running. I have to say the squeak is getting really annoying but no errors have been found. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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Nov 7 2009, 10:14 AM
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 Audio Nut  Posts: 6,677 Joined: 14-February 04 From: Clemson U. Member No.: 8,484 |
It's the power circuitry on your motherboard or in your power supply squealing. It's nothing to worry about assuming you have a decent PSU.
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Nov 7 2009, 10:28 AM
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 I love OCC <3  Posts: 546 Joined: 4-January 05 From: Melbourne, FL Member No.: 14,490 |
I've never heard of 'noisy ram'. You're probably hearing a capacitor squeal. As waco has suggested, it's probably the PSU. Isolate and test that for the noise you're hearing.
EDIT: If the sound is indeed coming from the PSU, don't worry! It's not going to collapse and die, though chances are the unit is under strain. This post has been edited by MasterRex862: Nov 7 2009, 10:30 AM -------------------- QUOTE (ClayMeow @ May 13 2005, 07:01 PM) I don't like mushrooms, so I only ate the snails.  Core 2 Duo e6750 @ 3GHz :: MSI P6N SLI (650i) :: 4 x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 800 :: 8800GTS G92 :: Acer Ferrari F-20 20" [P-MVA] :: Ultra Aluminus Case Bose 201 Series IV :: harman/kardon AVR 45 :: Cerwin-Vega HT-PWR12 |
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Nov 7 2009, 10:33 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 14-October 09 From: Sequim, Wa. USA Member No.: 69,075 |
Very odd problem you have there. you might try finding the offending component by holding something like a plastic drinking straw or some kind of non-conductive rod to each stick of memory and to your ear and listen for the squeek to increase in volume. If all the sticks have about the volume of squeek, do the same to the the other components on your board, eventually you shoud find the source. I would suspect that it's thermal expansion between a heatsink and component, or socket and card. If you do find it to be a stick of memory, try reseating it and see if the noise goes away, if not, try swapping the stick to another slot and see if the noise moves with the stick or stays with that slot. That should tell you if the noise is from the slot on your motherboard or pecular to a stick of memory.
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Nov 13 2009, 01:49 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-November 09 Member No.: 69,398 |
Well it is now happening with just 3 sitcks of RAM
So I suspect it is the Motherboard - RMA'ing it today |
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Nov 13 2009, 02:19 AM
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Audio Nut Posts: 6,677 Joined: 14-February 04 From: Clemson U. Member No.: 8,484 |
QUOTE (Designer_John @ Nov 13 2009, 04:49 AM)  Well it is now happening with just 3 sitcks of RAM So I suspect it is the Motherboard - RMA'ing it today Why would you RMA it? My old nForce 2 board would scream anytime the CPU was under load. My 2900XT used to scream whenever I ran a game with antialiasing on. It's nothing to worry about... -------------------- Desktop: | Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz | 128 GB GSkill Falcon | 8 GB WinTec AmpX | Sapphire 4870 X2 | DFI P35-T2RL | PCP&C Silencer 610 | W7 x64 | HTPC: | X3 720 BE @ 3.4 GHz | 4.5 TB Storage | 8 GB GeIL Black Dragon | PowerColor 4830 | ECS A-780GM-A | ATI Theater 650 Pro | OCZ Fatal1ty 550 | W7 x64 | Router/VPN/Compiling: | Opteron 175 | 4 GB DDR 500 | S3 Trio PCI VGA | Asus A8N-SLI SE | SinTek 500SLI | XP Pro | Office: | Dell Precision 390 | Core 2 Duo E6320 | 2 GB DDR2 667 | XFX 7800GT | Fedora 10 / Windows 7 RC | NetBook: | Asus EeePC 900A | 1.6 GHz Atom | 32 GB SSD | 2 GB DDR2 667 | Intel Integrated | W7 x86 | |
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Nov 13 2009, 02:28 AM
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QUOTE (Waco @ Nov 13 2009, 10:19 AM) Why would you RMA it? Some motherboards have loads of coil whine under load, while others have no audible noise at all... I'm talking about the same model of motherboard here. For my five EVGA 680i motherboards, one was really loud and annoying, one was kinda loud, two were pretty subtle and barely noticeable, and one was pretty much silent -------------------- ( How To Ask A Question ) · ( OCC F@H Sigpics ) · ( OCC Gaming ) · ( OCC Rules ) Opteron 170 (naked) @ 10x260=2600 · Thermalright Ultra 120 (lapped) · 2x 1GB G.Skill HZ PC4000 @ 260, 3-4-4-8-1T HD4850 512MB (Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 rev2) · DFI NF4 Infinity · Audigy 2 ZS (Hotrodded) · PCP&C 510 SLI/Express EeePC 1000H @ 12x167=2008 · 1x 2GB Corsair VS PC2-5300 · GMA 950 @ 400 MHz · Gigabyte Aircruiser N300 GN-WI06N ( Socket 775 OC Competition ) · ( Socket 775 OC Database ) · ( USB Bootdrive Guide ) · ( Modding & Computer Stores List )  |
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Nov 13 2009, 02:30 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-November 09 Member No.: 69,398 |
The noise is really annoying, as the system is watercooled you can here every little noise (HD's being the loudest) The board really should not make any sound, under stress or no stress
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Nov 13 2009, 03:02 AM
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 Member Posts: 241 Joined: 27-July 09 From: United Kingdom Member No.: 68,190 |
QUOTE (Designer_John @ Nov 13 2009, 10:30 AM) The noise is really annoying, as the system is watercooled you can here every little noise (HD's being the loudest) The board really should not make any sound, under stress or no stress I had this with my Old Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, it was fine but when i stuck an extra 2 gigs of ram in, it wouldnt stop whining it was the most annoying thing! i couldnt bare it any longer so i dumped that pc, and kept the water cooling kit i was using on it for my Asrock Alivedual-Vsta - thats the 1st and Last time ill ever Buy an Asrock motherboard because THAT motherboard lasted more or less 2 weeks 
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