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PC makes weird chirps

PCSharkey · 2015-02-11 16:02:36

PC has made a sporadic high pitch chirp for a while, It happens a couple times an hour any have an idea what it could be?

11-02-2015 4:02pm

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PCSharkey

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PC has made a sporadic high pitch chirp for a while, It happens a couple times an hour any have an idea what it could be?

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#2 12-02-2015 11:37am

Alanstrainor

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PCSharkey wrote: »

PC has made a sporadic high pitch chirp for a while, It happens a couple times an hour any have an idea what it could be?

Is it a laptop, or a desktop?

Any more of a description of the sound? Are the speakers on when it happens?

If its not coming through the speakers there's only a few things that actually move inside a computer, mainly you'd be looking at the Fans and the Hard disks.

There is a chance that the motherboard is making such noises, but I would think it unlikely.

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#3 12-02-2015 11:41am

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First guess would be hard drive issue. Back it up as soon as you can. At least then you won't lose anything. Run licensecrawler or similar to get a backup of all the software licenses you will need for a reinstall with a new HDD, if the current one is about to fail.

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#4 12-02-2015 11:46am

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Chirp to me sounds like the fan bearings

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#5 12-02-2015 12:37pm

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Could be a bird trapped in the case.

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#6 12-02-2015 3:01pm

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Could also be the PSU ? Switched mode PSUs run at normally inaudable frequencies but an unusual load or loose inductor could cause a chirping noise.

My money is on PropJoe10's suggestion though and I'll go one further and suggest it's a Robin . . . .

Ken

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#7 15-02-2015 3:08pm

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Thanks for the response, its a custom built desktop, it's hard to describe it sounds electronic, it's not coming from my headphones definitely the PC, I have a xfx 750w PSU and I recently switched to a ssd and I don't have anything but games on so I don't need to back up. I have one stock fan left the other one's ballbearing wore out in october and it sounded like a drill compared to this high pitch squeak. Could it be the optical drive?

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#8 15-02-2015 6:10pm

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My laptop was randomly chirping for a while too but it seems to have stopped now (the bird inside must have died!). I posted about it here including a sound clip if you want to compare.

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