High pitched noise turns on when I open things in windows.

[CrewXp]

Hey, I have a problem. I turned on my computer today, opened up a folder and a high pitched noise started ringing from my case somewhere. I'm not sure what part it's coming from as its hard to hear exactly where something is when it's a high noise.

But it happens every time I load a program or open a folder. When I close them, it stops.

Here's whats in my system:
CoolerMaster Stacker t01 case with this stuff:
E6600 Intel Processor
WaterCooling Setup (Ask if you need info)
Corsair 1Gb Memory
2 Raid-0 SATA hard drives (Seagate 320Gb)
Game X-Tream 700W Power Supply
ATI X1900XTX 512Mb Video Card
Creative X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
Hauppauge PVR-150MCE Tv Tuner
Asus P5w-Dh Mobo

Thanks alot.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Just sent in my 7900GTO for having a high pitched noise in menus or when loading a map or during videos in some games, bad cap somewhere I guess, did it sound something like this?

http://media.putfile.com/fear-valikoima

[BlueBiker]

Are you running a CRT monitor? The high pitched whine could be related to the amount of bright white being displayed. If you have a dark desktop background, the CRT won't be stressed until you open a program or folder with bright background.

Way to test: Minimize the folder or program. Does the whine go away?

[Magnj]

Are you running a CRT monitor? The high pitched whine could be related to the amount of bright white being displayed. If you have a dark desktop background, the CRT won't be stressed until you open a program or folder with bright background.

Way to test: Minimize the folder or program. Does the whine go away?
QFT

could also be a fan...

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

nope nope nope.

its the hdd. and its the head(s) hitting the platter(s) as it seeks across them.

thats why it happens during opening and closing of files/programs.

back up your data, chances are it will be gone soon.

[BlueBiker]

But it happens every time I load a program or open a folder. When I close them, it stops
The noise begins when a program/folder is opened and continues until it's closed. That isn't the access pattern of a hard drive.

[BenchZowner]

You should open up your case and try to locate the sound source.
I bet it's coming from the chokes on the right side of the DIMM slots.

[kuhla]

I have the exact same problem as CrewXp. Since my computer (specs below) is sitting on my desk (caseless) I was quickly able to isolate that the noise was coming from my video card.

AMD Opteron 165 (9*305)
DFI NF4 Ultra-D
EVGA 7900GTO (512-P2-N573-AR)
2 x 1GB DDR OCZ Platinum (OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3300622AS 300GB
CoolerMaster Real Power 450w power supply (RS-450-ACLX)

[more detailed specs at link in sig]

Mine makes the sound (which I would describe as a nearly silent eletrical screaming/scraping) when there is activity on the screen like dragging a large selection box or when gaming. It stops when nothing is going on on-the-screen and starts/continues when something is happening.

[BlueBiker]

Bizarre. What's the fix?

[uOpt]

This is HF noise from one of the chips, probably the northbridge.

The power management on the board is supposed to deal with it but apparently it doesn't. If you don't find a way to improve power stability to that chip (I don't know what excatly you have to do) then only a new board helps.

[BlueBiker]

OP said that opening a program/folder initiates a sound which continues until the program/folder is closed. If some motherboard chip were involved, it would not stop whining when you close a quiescent application.

Opening a folder triggers some CPU activity and memory management (and maybe disk activity, depending on what's already been cached) at the time it opens and then again when you close it, but when it's just sitting there on your screen it's not doing anything.

[uOpt]

Is that program drawing constant CPU?