Hi all. I would like if anyone can help me figure out a concern I have. When I play a game that can be considered gpu intensive the computer starts making a beep sound. It comes from inside the desktop and I suspect it may be the graphic card but I am not sure. I have a AMD RYZEN 7 3700X cpu and a Radeon XFX Rx 5700 XT gpu. I found that if a run the game with MANGOHUD activated in steam the sound does not happens. But with downloaded or run in Lutris games mangohud manages to make it intermittent.
That’s usually a sign temps are too high. The first thing I’d do would be to go to the BIOS and check the temp thresholds. Maybe they are too low.
Another hypothesis is the motherboard getting too hot due to the GPU. This happened to me when I bought a 2nd handed RX 470 and inserted it in my old ASUS P5G41T-M LE with a Q9650 CPU. I had to cut the case so the GPU would fit. When I started to push it, I noticed CPU temps were fine, GPU temps were fine, but the motherboard was getting way too hot. I had to insert two extra fans (one inflow + one outflow), connect them together to a controller with thermostat inserted between the GPU cooler and it’s processor. Never had problems again.
That kind of beeps are generated by your bios, you should carefully listen to the amount and repetition of those beeps.
Your BIOS documentation should give you information about what a certain combination of beeps means.
These beeps are meant to alert you of serious hardware problems that need immediate attention, so don’t keep playing when that happens and find the reason (meaning) of the beeps and fix it before going on…
So is the motherboard making the sound and not the gpu card? I could not find anything about warning sounds within the motherboards manual.
For clarification, yes I do stop the game as soon as the sound starts happening. In other words there are some games I have not been able to play because of it. I only play them if the mangohud trick works.
I couldn’t find any reference to “short” on that page you linked, but it gave me an idea:
Maybe you are alerted of the fact that your graphics card is consuming more power as your power supply is able to provide?
Did you check the power requirements of the combined devices in your machine with what your power suply is able to provide as total?
My bad English is not my first language. What would be more accurate instead of beep?
Also, what tool is there to monitor the PSU stats and/or idea how to address the issue?
No problem it isn’t my primary language either
I adjusted the title to better reflect it.
You might, if you have the possibility, try another PSU preferably one with more power.
I had a similar issue with the 2nd handed RX470 I bought. When I inserted the thermostat of the fan controller under the GPU cooler it made a high pitch sound just like that when I pushed it with heavy games or opencl code. The solution was to hang it with plastic tiebacks. The temps of the GPU dropped substantially and I never heard the pitch again.
It seems a mess, but it works perfectly. The plastic tiebacks are not under tension at all, they are quite loose. They are there just to correct the card’s alignment.
@sproid
I once had the issue that my power supply (PSU) wasn’t enough for my GPU. So I added another one to test things (bc my screen would just turn black) and then as a temporary measure, until I got a new more powerful one.
