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I'm trying to isolate an issue and I think I have but it's still strange so I thought I'd see if anyone here has seen this.
There's some sort of alarm going off from inside my PC but as near as I can tell, there's nothing wrong. It's a loud steady beep and it doesn't go away until a restart. What makes this the strangest is that it only happens during 3D rendering, games, 3dmark, and furmark. I can use it all day long doing email, surfing, huge file copies (10gb video files), etc... but the alarm never goes off. My first instinct was something heat related, video perhaps, since it only happens when 3D apps are running, but all my temps are within normal ranges. And the system doesn't freeze, slowdown, bsod, or anything else. I know this because I left L4D running one day accidentally and went out to run some errands and when I came back later, the alarm was going off but L4D was still running fine and I played a few minutes to make sure. I don't think it's the video card or the MB, I think it's the adaptec card but that would mean that one of the two drives in raid0 is failing without any indication of a failing drive? Is it possible that some unused space on the drive is failing, triggering the alarm, but not actually causing any issues because there's no data on those spots? That seems very strange, the whole thing is strange.
Anyone got any thoughts?
My specs:
EVGA X58 MB
i7 940 stock
EVGA GeForce 285
12GB Crucial 1600
X-fi pcie audio
Adaptec 5805
2- Seagate 73GB Savvio 15k in raid0 for OS
300GB Velociraptor for storage
Silverstone 750 PS
Edit: Forgot the PS. I did have a thermaltake 850 in there for a couple days and then it died so I put the silverstone back while I RMA the TT. The alarm problem has been going on far longer than the power supply swap but it is the reason I tried another.
There's some sort of alarm going off from inside my PC but as near as I can tell, there's nothing wrong. It's a loud steady beep and it doesn't go away until a restart. What makes this the strangest is that it only happens during 3D rendering, games, 3dmark, and furmark. I can use it all day long doing email, surfing, huge file copies (10gb video files), etc... but the alarm never goes off. My first instinct was something heat related, video perhaps, since it only happens when 3D apps are running, but all my temps are within normal ranges. And the system doesn't freeze, slowdown, bsod, or anything else. I know this because I left L4D running one day accidentally and went out to run some errands and when I came back later, the alarm was going off but L4D was still running fine and I played a few minutes to make sure. I don't think it's the video card or the MB, I think it's the adaptec card but that would mean that one of the two drives in raid0 is failing without any indication of a failing drive? Is it possible that some unused space on the drive is failing, triggering the alarm, but not actually causing any issues because there's no data on those spots? That seems very strange, the whole thing is strange.
Anyone got any thoughts?
My specs:
EVGA X58 MB
i7 940 stock
EVGA GeForce 285
12GB Crucial 1600
X-fi pcie audio
Adaptec 5805
2- Seagate 73GB Savvio 15k in raid0 for OS
300GB Velociraptor for storage
Silverstone 750 PS
Edit: Forgot the PS. I did have a thermaltake 850 in there for a couple days and then it died so I put the silverstone back while I RMA the TT. The alarm problem has been going on far longer than the power supply swap but it is the reason I tried another.