Alright... working out the bugs, working out the bugs..... So the other night I was working in Adobe Illustrator CS3 & I had VLC Player playing some music when my system suddenly shut down for no reason. When it restarted there was no signs of anything wrong from windows xp... no bsod, no options to start windows xp normally or safe mode or anything. So I started up Illustrator again.... here's the weird part.... when I click inside of a shape layer, I hear a squealing sound coming from my system.... I had to take off the side of the case to get a better idea of where it was coming from. Ah crap its the processor!
I hear the sound here and there faintly at times like when i insert a cd or dvd into my drive, but it's loudest when I'm in Illustrator and clicking inside a shape. If I hold down the mouse button it's a continuous squealing until I let go of the button. If the shape layer is locked - no squealing. Or... if I click multiple times I can kinda break the rhythm of it and be able to hold down the mouse button with no squealing.
I also use the "speedfan" hardware temp monitor.... the processor is definitely getting used, up to 50% if I hold down the mouse button.
Any Ideas as to what could be causing this?... and do you think my processor is in danger? Besides the squealing.... it shows no other signs of any problems.
It's not coming from the internal speaker by chance is it, in some mobos its possible to unhook it just to try?
I have had this in power supplies and TVs where a radio frequency choke, these are just turns of wire on a core and sometimes the core vibrates due to pulsing or ripple on the current through it becoming loose, we call these 'singing chokes'.
There was a post a while back somewhere where an identical fault was caused by interference being picked up from some lead or other in the computer ... hence the idea of removing any speakers and checking the routing of wires.
Tracing sounds can sometimes be difficult, a lengthy plastic tube can prove handy to use as a stethoscope, if this sounds useful keep well away from fan blades etc.
Bad capacitors could also cause these affects by not filtering the DC supplies properly, you might also check any earthing grounding screws on the mobo.
I've never known chips to become noisy, not without a speaker of some description.
Processor in new build squealing 
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