High pitched noise

Suikachan

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Jun 24, 2016
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Hi everyone,
I've had some issues with my computer for the last few weeks.
When I start a game or a program that requires more RAM or CPU, my computer starts to make a quite loud high pitched noise. But sometimes it also comes when I move the mouse, but in this case it starts being less loud and then increases.
And the problem is, after a few minutes with this noise, my computer stops and shows an error: "Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable power supply unit! CPU Fan error!"
I opened my computer and I saw that when the whining noise is becoming louder, the CPU fan stops spinning.
I found that if I unplug and replug whatever component on my motherboard (RAM, hard disk, unclip and reclip the CPU fan), my computer will reboot without the noise, but it will come back a few minutes later anyway.
I started having this problem like a year ago but at this time when I unclipped and reclipped the fan, the noise didn't come back for a while.

How could I fix it ?

Thank you in advance

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570
Motherboard: Asus H87-PLUS
PSU: ADT-350W
 
Solution
What Asus Anti-Surge is telling you is that your PSU is dying.

I have no idea who ADT is that made your PSU and from the photographs I have seen of it, it looks like it belongs in the junk-quality power supply category - the type that you should replace ASAP, before it kills some of your PC's components or worse.

When looking for a replacement, don't look any lower than tier three.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

InvalidError

Titan
Moderator
What Asus Anti-Surge is telling you is that your PSU is dying.

I have no idea who ADT is that made your PSU and from the photographs I have seen of it, it looks like it belongs in the junk-quality power supply category - the type that you should replace ASAP, before it kills some of your PC's components or worse.

When looking for a replacement, don't look any lower than tier three.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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