Solved! Coil Whine in Asus Laptop

[rafael07]

Hello to everyone!

This is my first topic on this forum, and I expect you can help me with this annoying problem that has been disturbing me for some days.

Recently, I bought an ASUS R510V laptop with freeDOS as OS, 8 GB RAM, intel i7 6700HQ, GTX 950M as dedicated GPU, and intel HD graphics 530 as integrated GPU.
About 2 weeks after installing Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14 I realized that, sometimes, a high-pitched noise came from inside the laptop (hear the noise). Surfing the internet I came to the conclusion that is coil whine, and I think its origin is the intel integrated graphics. First of all, this noise is produced only while using windows (not in ubuntu, where I can only use GTX 950M GPU), specially in the screen that appears when an application needs special permissions

, or in applications like Google Chrome. I have updated my Intel drivers too.

But the most strange thing I have discovered recently is: this noise does not show up while the Intel Driver Update Utility or the Intel Graphics HD control panel are running in foreground.

Do you have any idea why is this happening? Any suggestion to solve this problem apart from having Intel Driver Update Utility or the Intel Graphics HD control panel running?

Thank you so much anyway and sorry for my English!

 

[PC-4LIFE]

Coil Whine is technically always happening in all appliances, but usually the frequency is too high or too low for us to hear it. You can increase the frequency to a point you cannot hear it by overclocking.

I don't know much about overclocking iGPU, but it would solve the problem is that was the source.

 

[rafael07]

Coil Whine is technically always happening in all appliances, but usually the frequency is too high or too low for us to hear it. You can increase the frequency to a point you cannot hear it by overclocking.

I don't know much about overclocking iGPU, but it would solve the problem is that was the source.

Thank you so much for your answer. I forgot to tell that my brother bought the same laptop, but with Windows 10 pre-installed and he is not suffering this issue. I was thinking about a solution which consists of having those intel applications (or some of their processes) running in background. Any idea?

 

[PC-4LIFE]

Coil Whine is technically always happening in all appliances, but usually the frequency is too high or too low for us to hear it. You can increase the frequency to a point you cannot hear it by overclocking.

I don't know much about overclocking iGPU, but it would solve the problem is that was the source.

Thank you so much for your answer. I forgot to tell that my brother bought the same laptop, but with Windows 10 pre-installed and he is not suffering this issue. I was thinking about a solution which consists of having those intel applications (or some of their processes) running in background. Any idea?

Not every device will emit the same frequency even if they are exactly the same device. Don't ask why, because I'm not too sure myself. My 1060 emits slight coil whine, but I know people with 1060's with no coil whine at all.

 

[Joseph_164]

will coil whine damage your hardware in long term use?

 

[PC-4LIFE]

will coil whine damage your hardware in long term use?

No, as I said before coil whine is technically always happening in every device, it's just that normally we can't hear it since it's so high pitched.

 

[Joseph_164]

will coil whine damage your hardware in long term use?

No, as I said before coil whine is technically always happening in every device, it's just that normally we can't hear it since it's so high pitched.

My laptop under warranty should I return it or just leave it?

 

[helpstar]

Change your background to white. Still or more coil whine? Change to black.

Update the BIOS of your Laptop

install all drivers from ASUS.com

 

[Joseph_164]

will coil whine damage your hardware in long term use?

No, as I said before coil whine is technically always happening in every device, it's just that normally we can't hear it since it's so high pitched.

Change your background to white. Still or more coil whine? Change to black.

Update the BIOS of your Laptop

install all drivers from ASUS.com

can coil whine cause any other components damage?

 

[helpstar]

no, it´s just a physical thing that comes with bad designed components

 

[Joseph_164]

no, it´s just a physical thing that comes with bad designed components

so I jump into conclusion that coil whine won't damage my laptop at all right?

 

[helpstar]

if I would have bought this laptop, I would RMA it (replace it by warranty), because I don´t like coil whine

coil whine won´t damage the laptop, like said before, it´s just an annoying tone over time