Computer making high pitched whine(possibly cpu)

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03storic

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So my computer has been making an extremely high pitched noise sometimes for days at a time but will stop randomly and seems worse during CPU intensive tasks. I have opened it up and narrowed it down to only starting when the yellow circled plug is in, when it is removed the comp power's up without a noise. Also someone with industrial deafness cannot hear it and neither can my mother who is in her 40's due to it being such a high pitch.

http://i.imgur.com/5ZczJ0y.jpg

What is likely the root cause of this problem?
 
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Bejusek

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Go to BIOS (F2 at startup), Advanced > Chipset Configuration Menu, find Host Spread Spectrum and change its value. There should be only two options - center and down. Set it to other one than is currently selected. Save BIOS settings, reboot, see if that helped. If not restore the original value.
 
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03storic

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I will do that the next time it start's, it seems to have stopped right now for no real reason other then the fact I opened the box, and tightened the screws on the CPU heatsink. Although that may just be a coincidence
 
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03storic

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Ok that had no effect, the sound has come back worse then ever. Also the computer has rebooted randomly twice now while playing an online game.

--Edit--
It's my power supply, gonna go get a new one tomorrow.
 
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