Strange Noise...

Alright, so I finally got myself a new computer, built it myself like a day before I headed off to college. Took me a while to get Windows 7 running on it and ended up giving up on getting the RAID 0 drivers to work, so I'll just be doing that when I do my clean install when Windows 7 is actually released.Anyways, my computer has been making an odd noise. Whenever I do anything graphically instensive I get a sort of ''static-y'' noise that comes from the computer...in the past I had a similiar problem like this and it ended up being the sound card (or rather the lack of one...onboard audio = no good). But I'm not so sure this is the case this time. The noise only comes up when I start playing a game and, like, in Crysis I can turn on Vsync and that sorta helps but the noise doesn't go away. I even started up ''Chess'' and when I started changing the camera angles and stuff the noise would happen and as soon as I stopped moving the camera so would the noise.If I get the time I will just take out my sound card to see if that is the problem, but for now I'm just wondering if any of you have any suggestions as to what it might be...I mean my computer is working in ever other way...but the sound is quite annoying. Thanks for any help/advice!Strange Noise...
Did you set up everything in the bios correctly....and you never posted anything else for hardware. I know that some soundcards along with crappy speakers will make that noise also. Make sure onboard sound is disabled in bios. And with vista and windows 7 all you need to do is set up raid 0 in the bios correctly and when you do the initial install let windows put the driver in. Do not add any other driversStrange Noise...
What video card do you have? The nvidia gtx 200 series makes a sort of staticy ringing noise occasionally. Could also be a noisy fan.
[QUOTE=''JackLKing'']Did you set up everything in the bios correctly....and you never posted anything else for hardware. I know that some soundcards along with crappy speakers will make that noise also. Make sure onboard sound is disabled in bios. And with vista and windows 7 all you need to do is set up raid 0 in the bios correctly and when you do the initial install let windows put the driver in. Do not add any other drivers[/QUOTE]\



I'll try disabling the onboard audio in the BIOS, but I'm not sure if there is even an option for that since my Mobo (ASUS Crosshair III) just comes with this little Creative card and (I think) no ''onboard'' audio...but I'll check that anyway. And I know that RAID 0 is supposed to be easy and I did just set it up in the BIOS (which I did correctly followed all the steps) but for some reason the Windows 7 installer just didn't want to work with the setup for some reason. I went through all the required steps a couple of times just to make sure, but when I searched the error I was getting online, it seems it's a problem a lot of people run into sometimes. My GPU is a HD4890 btw and I don't think it's a noisy fan since I turned the fan on the GPU up to ~60% and yeah it gets loud but it doesn't make any noise like what I'm getting.
Sounds like a capacitor hiss from your video card. Not much you can do if that is the issue, other then try for an RMA.EDIT: Oh you have a 4890, my 4890 buzzed at me plenty of times. It's not uncommon to have a hissing/squealing noise from a 4890.
[QUOTE=''Luminouslight'']Sounds like a capacitor hiss from your video card. Not much you can do if that is the issue, other then try for an RMA.EDIT: Oh you have a 4890, my 4890 buzzed at me plenty of times. It's not uncommon to have a hissing/squealing noise from a 4890.[/QUOTE]



Any way to fix it or anything? I mean it's just annoying, doesn't really affect my gameplay or anything...will it eventually go away or anything?
[QUOTE=''powerwolff''][QUOTE=''Luminouslight'']Sounds like a capacitor hiss from your video card. Not much you can do if that is the issue, other then try for an RMA.EDIT: Oh you have a 4890, my 4890 buzzed at me plenty of times. It's not uncommon to have a hissing/squealing noise from a 4890.[/QUOTE]



Any way to fix it or anything? I mean it's just annoying, doesn't really affect my gameplay or anything...will it eventually go away or anything?[/QUOTE]

There is no real way to fix it, and it won't go away probably. The only way you may be able to get rid of it is to RMA the card.
you can RMA the card for as many times as you want, it will not go away. Its not just your gpu its a combination of things that result in it. My old pc did that, i rma'd gpu , no difference. Now on my new pc, it still happens.you have 2 options:Replace each part untill it goes awayORGet over it like i did, its only during very high fps, in game it drops so much that with speakers or headphones, it is very quiet.
With that motherboard it will have the option to disable onboard sound....but it certainly might be what the others are saying about the hissing with that 4890 card......I would rma it as they said...Just get a replacement......And as for the raid.....Just don't do it if you are having a hard time with it. The newer hardrives with the 32mb cach are just as fast as raid 0. I have older harddrives that's why I have it but If one fails, I'm going to go back to just one single drive..
[QUOTE=''powerwolff''][QUOTE=''JackLKing'']Did you set up everything in the bios correctly....and you never posted anything else for hardware. I know that some soundcards along with crappy speakers will make that noise also. Make sure onboard sound is disabled in bios. And with vista and windows 7 all you need to do is set up raid 0 in the bios correctly and when you do the initial install let windows put the driver in. Do not add any other drivers[/QUOTE]\



I'll try disabling the onboard audio in the BIOS, but I'm not sure if there is even an option for that since my Mobo (ASUS Crosshair III) just comes with this little Creative card and (I think) no ''onboard'' audio...but I'll check that anyway. And I know that RAID 0 is supposed to be easy and I did just set it up in the BIOS (which I did correctly followed all the steps) but for some reason the Windows 7 installer just didn't want to work with the setup for some reason. I went through all the required steps a couple of times just to make sure, but when I searched the error I was getting online, it seems it's a problem a lot of people run into sometimes. My GPU is a HD4890 btw and I don't think it's a noisy fan since I turned the fan on the GPU up to ~60% and yeah it gets loud but it doesn't make any noise like what I'm getting.[/QUOTE]



The noise could just be from ambient static electricity.
Static....yea maybe but it still sounds puzzling. It really is hard without personally checking everything and putting ear to hardware....