Uh oh, i think something is wrong

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jcll2002

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Ive been hearing a hiss type noise coming from my computer only audible when i open the case door. It sounds sort of electricalish but i really dont know. everything is working and im just alittle paranoid. Also im going to be watercooling soon and I dont want to hear that noise.

BTW, i put my finger in every single fan (intake, exaust, chipset, cpu, gpu) to make sure it wasnt coming from them. It sounds like an electrical, grinding noise i really cant explain it. Specs are in my sig.

Any ideas?

BTW, im going on vacation and wont reply for a while.
 
Have you checked to see if it's coming from your HDs? You could always just try and boot w/out it plugged in.
 
I had a similar problem to yours, except it was a high pitch screech. I tried stopping all the fans manually, listening everywhere, starting the computer without the hard drives plugged in, just about everything I could think of. Then, i took my old GeForce 4 out on a hunch (I was using it to power a two monitor set up, but no longer have the second monitor so it was just sitting in a PCI slot un-used), and the noise stopped. It's REALLY weird considering it's a passive cooled card, and all the caps and everything look in tip top shape, but when i took it out the noise stop so it must have been related to that. I would try unplugging the HDD's first, then if you have any PCI expansion cards remove them one at a time and boot. I'm guessing what i found isnt a common problem, but it's definitely worth a try
 
Had a sound like that before and It was the power supply.
 
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