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    Help, My Graphics Card is Squeaking!!!

    Hello, I have just started to hear a very worrying high-frequency squeak coming from my graphics card.

    The squeaks vary from extremely high in pitch to fairly high in pitch, am I being paranoid or is there something going wrong?

    It definately isn't the fan (fitted with Vf-700Cu) and I have stopped it and the squeaking still happens.


    The squeaking only happens at certain times, Never in windows but on 3dMark03, All the time.

    At the Very start of 3dMark05 it happens (when loading the things up)

    And in the Call of Duty Menu, not in the actual game.


    It is a 6800GT.


    Am I being paranoid or is there something going wrong?

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    Are u sure its your graphics card?... i suspect its your Power Supply. check again and investigate.

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    No, it's definately the graphics card.

    I have a pretty quiet system, I rolled up a piece of paper and it was definately coming from the graphics card, I stopped the fan, it still happened.....

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    There was an issue with a batch of geforce 4 cards and geforce 5 cards that had duff capacitors on them and they made an extremely high pitch squeal as you state. With you having a 6800GT these cards might be plagued with the same crap capacitors on them. What make is the card? Check the manufacturer site and see if they have a recall on a certain batch. Due to the cards only being out in the last year you are safely within the warranty period so you could RMA it back to the manufacturer. The down side is that the squeal generally related to a capacitor about to blow so you may find your card will stop working. Out of interest are you over clocking the card or over volting the AGP/PCIE slot? If so that maybe the issue. If not then you will need to RMA that card as it will eventually lead to a capacitor popping.
    Last edited by Grey M@a; 03-06-2005 at 10:45 PM.

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    Hello, I don't really do overclocking.

    I have heard of no problems atall with any batch of MSI cards.


    Perhaps I should give it a good shake and make one break off and then get a new one for free?


    Surely it would happen on everything if it was broken wouldn't it?

    As in HL2 with everything on MAX it doesn't happen, it's only on certain applications.

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    The old albatron ti4680 cards had this same issue and that was a capacitor issue. It might well be the same thing. Drop MSI a line and see what they say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexander
    Perhaps I should give it a good shake and make one break off and then get a new one for free?
    Warranties are funny things, quite often they don't cover physical damage... This has to be reported pretty damn fast after you've bought it, so I really don't recommend breaking it youself.

    Are you able to try the card in a mates computer - see if it makes the same noise under the same circumstances?

    Its almost as if its running out of spec, and leaving it on overnight in the 'noisy' state mate be enough to tip it over the edge, which would certainly be within warranty, and without physical damage - though a blown capacitor makes a bit of a cloud or atleast used to. Haven't blown a capacitor up in over 15 years now.

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    Probably just one of the coils vibrating. I doubt you have anything to worry about.

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    The Squeaking has come back!!

    I'm starting to get worried.

    I'm not sure if this helps but it mainly squeaks when I am scrolling through web pages, one scroll down on the mouse = 1 squeak, 2 scrolls down on the mouse = 2 squeaks and so on.

    Does anybody have any ideas?

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    speak to MSI....

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    Update:

    It only happens in Internet Explorer and not Firefox.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexander
    Update:

    It only happens in Internet Explorer and not Firefox.
    I have had that sort of thing happen before (a very long time ago) - I don't think it's actually the graphics card making the noise, but the pc speaker. Try reinstalling the grahics driver - I seem to remember that fixed my problem.

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    It caused by the hardware when a component decides to resonate at an audiable freqency. No idea what component, but it probably to do with power regulation as it seems to happen when stuffs under load. Could even be caued by the psu. Sound is easly effected so it would often go through speakers....


    Prime95 causes it on my spare pc and my dads pc when doing torture test
    3dm2k5 nature does it on my x850xtpe and all 4 of my 9500/9700's.
    Mouse scrolling seems to cause it a lot too, had it on 3 pc's.

    I dont think it can be fixed. Its more likely to be a hardware issue with the layout/design of the pcb and the components used.
    Afaik it is not a sign of component failure, so just try to ignore it.
    Last edited by SilentDeath; 23-07-2005 at 03:12 AM.

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    Probably a VRM coil, mosfet, or cap. Squirt some hot glue over anything that could possibly vibrate (but not anything that makes alot of heat) and the squeak should be gone.

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    Maybe you could mess about with the spread spectrum?

    AFAIK it changes the frequency of some of your components so they dont resonate and interfrer with each other.

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