So my less than one month old Antec EA-650 power supply is now making an extremely annoying high pitched whine. Do I return it and get another one? I don't want it to fail and bring my components down with it. I still have the box, but not plastic.
Edit: The ringing changes pitch in accordance with hard drive usage. I have the hard drive on a separate rail from the other disc drives. Edit2: Now something smells like it's burning, I had this with my other computer but it didn't fail. Another Edit: Just went over the motherboard with an infrared thermometer looking for burning but found none. Couldn't find any burst caps either. Burning smell isn't coming from power supply, I smelled it. It's coming from somewhere else.
The PSU in my old P4 PC that I gave to my brother was making such a sound for a year and a half... Around since I put in a new hard drive, ram and GPU. I got rid of it, though since your PSU is a month old, I'd contact support.
Definitely contact warranty/store you bought it from.
My power supply made a similar noise before the fan seized up (and it overheated quite catastrophically). Couple of drops of olive oil later and there hasn't been a problem since :)
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;22212269]My power supply made a similar noise before the fan seized up (and it overheated quite catastrophically). Couple of drops of olive oil later and there hasn't been a problem since :)[/QUOTE]
The fan, makes sense.
Weirdly, that old PSU had a louder ringing / electric abrasive sound when I turned on the flashlight in Goldsource games. Never did that in any other game, though was always consistent in those games.
My old psu made high pitched noise before it said poof and ate my motherboard
It's a capacitor. If you can figure out which one you can replace it.
It sounds like a capacitor squealing like Xera said but you might want to make sure that it isn't just the fan first.
Either coil whine or a capacitor. I'd check for bulges on the tops of them, if any are bulging either replace the capacitor or replace the PSU.
The fan is spinning. I contacted Antec via email but they haven't responded yet. I bought it from Newegg.
Edit: The ringing changes pitch in accordance with hard drive usage. I have the hard drive on a separate rail from the other disc drives.
Then a capacitor that that rail uses might be failing.
Antec had a bad rep with badcaps about seven years ago.
What you might have is a resonating torroidial coil which is starting to overheat but if it's old enough for the warranty to be expired, it would not hurt to crack it open and see what the secondary caps are like.
Just Ordered a Corsair CMPSU-650HX to replace the one I have now. RMAing the other one.
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