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edit #2: Read the whole thing twice if you are confused! Of course I did connect the molex. There are pictures a few posts down!
edit: Just to note ahead of time - the vast majority of 6800's DO HAVE a speaker onboard. This is fairly common for newer cards. And for those curious, the card was a PNY 6800 agp (vanilla variety)
So I was switching out motherboards, my last one was defective (freaks out with more than one stick of ram) with a brand new version of the exact same model fresh from RMA (this is my third one, I love the VNF3-250 but it sure is a buggy peice of shit if anything goes slightly amiss!) and I ran into a strange problem - the events went something like this:
*spends an hour getting new mobo in and running cables neatly*
*puts video card in slot* (last part to go in)
*plugs PC into outlet and hears a horrid smoke alarm type noise*
Well that's odd, eh? My first impression was that the motherboard was bad since this whining noise happened whenever an agp card was inserted and power was applied to the system - even when it wasn't turned on! Now I did have another video card to test with, but it was in my HTPC and I really didn't feel like tearing apart that finely tuned beast. So I undid all my precious cable cleaning work and took the new motherboard out of the case, so that I could run the system barebones (psu+mobo+ram+cpu/hs+video card on a cardboard box), and it yeilded the exact same results. Obviously the motherboard was defective, no?
So of course I cursed Chaintech and their poor quality control which, aside from this situation, has been truly poor, and packed the new motherboard back in its box. The old one had to go back in! So long story short there, the old motherboard did the same thing! This was getting weird... I decided to try and hunt down the truly deafening noise, and after a series of horridly painful tests, I deducted that the noise was coming from the piezzo buzzer(sp?) (or speaker) on the top right corner of the video card! Now that the motherboards were ruled out as issues, I put the system back together with the new motherboard (which I had to unpack - at this point I was rather stick of shuffling around hardware!) and endured the horrid whining once more, only to find that if I actually boot up the system, the whining stops!
After a little web research I concluded that the card was putting out a low voltage warning in the form of a horrid shreek through the buzzer when the system was not powered on, but had active power (was plugged in). How it now knew to do that was well beyond my knowledge since never did before. But the solution was simple - I grabbed the card in my hands and ripped off the buzzer with my teeth. Yes, with my teeth! It seemed fair that the card felt a little pain to compensate for the ringing in my ears.
No idea what caused the problem to start all of a sudden but the card is running beautifuly - the system is prime and 3D stable and well, and obviously I haven't heard that horrid noise since. - just wanted to share my freak story...
edit: Just to note ahead of time - the vast majority of 6800's DO HAVE a speaker onboard. This is fairly common for newer cards. And for those curious, the card was a PNY 6800 agp (vanilla variety)
So I was switching out motherboards, my last one was defective (freaks out with more than one stick of ram) with a brand new version of the exact same model fresh from RMA (this is my third one, I love the VNF3-250 but it sure is a buggy peice of shit if anything goes slightly amiss!) and I ran into a strange problem - the events went something like this:
*spends an hour getting new mobo in and running cables neatly*
*puts video card in slot* (last part to go in)
*plugs PC into outlet and hears a horrid smoke alarm type noise*
Well that's odd, eh? My first impression was that the motherboard was bad since this whining noise happened whenever an agp card was inserted and power was applied to the system - even when it wasn't turned on! Now I did have another video card to test with, but it was in my HTPC and I really didn't feel like tearing apart that finely tuned beast. So I undid all my precious cable cleaning work and took the new motherboard out of the case, so that I could run the system barebones (psu+mobo+ram+cpu/hs+video card on a cardboard box), and it yeilded the exact same results. Obviously the motherboard was defective, no?
So of course I cursed Chaintech and their poor quality control which, aside from this situation, has been truly poor, and packed the new motherboard back in its box. The old one had to go back in! So long story short there, the old motherboard did the same thing! This was getting weird... I decided to try and hunt down the truly deafening noise, and after a series of horridly painful tests, I deducted that the noise was coming from the piezzo buzzer(sp?) (or speaker) on the top right corner of the video card! Now that the motherboards were ruled out as issues, I put the system back together with the new motherboard (which I had to unpack - at this point I was rather stick of shuffling around hardware!) and endured the horrid whining once more, only to find that if I actually boot up the system, the whining stops!
After a little web research I concluded that the card was putting out a low voltage warning in the form of a horrid shreek through the buzzer when the system was not powered on, but had active power (was plugged in). How it now knew to do that was well beyond my knowledge since never did before. But the solution was simple - I grabbed the card in my hands and ripped off the buzzer with my teeth. Yes, with my teeth! It seemed fair that the card felt a little pain to compensate for the ringing in my ears.
No idea what caused the problem to start all of a sudden but the card is running beautifuly - the system is prime and 3D stable and well, and obviously I haven't heard that horrid noise since. - just wanted to share my freak story...
