POST problems. Continious buzz

[fec32a4de]

Hello everyone!

So I got a new video card for the holidays as a gift. EVGA 980Ti Classified.

I put together a system with some new parts and..... bs happens.

Sometimes when I press the power button to start the PC, It gives me one beep as normal and boots.
But 1 of 3 times when I do that, instead of booting it just buzzes and doesn't boot. I say buzzes because
instead of a usual BIOS like beep it deeper in tone.

Removing the 'case' speaker obviously gets rid of the noise, but doesn't solve the problem. Did this cause
I had a gpu with a speaker on it like 4 years ago and if u didn't connect both PCIE power connectors it went off. Wanted to rule out GPU speaker buzzing. Apparently this card doesn't have a speaker on it. Thank god.

So its not the EVGA card doing this.

Since the PC does boot to Windows 1 of 3 power on attempts I attempted to isolate the problem, benchmarked it, stressed it etc. I've attached images of various components.
Note that GPU-Z mentions TWO issues. VOp and Vrel. Is this a PSU issue?

Checked components:
-SSD 850 EVO 256GB Benched - works fine, SMART is fine
-HDD WD Black 1003 model 1TB Benched - works fine, SMART is fine
-GPU - Tested with GPU-Z (IT SHOWS THE VOLTAGE PROBLEMS), Games: WoW and GTA V are both fine. -Performance seems slightly slower than one would expect from a 980Ti (power problem?)
-RAM A-DATA 1333 4GBx2 = Read/Copy/Write went fine
-CPU 2600K NOT overclocked (AIDA shows Turbo boost frequency) - Cache, copy are all fine

Parts NOT ruled out:

-Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H rev 1.2) Latest BIOS F15 AMI BIOS
Interesting to note, the latest BIOS was already installed, and the manual has nothing to do with its pos UEFI interface. The manual is wrong, maybe because layout changed with BIOS upgrade.

I suspect it and the PSU as the problems, won't control case fan, CPU fan is at like ~900RPM, case at 500RPM. CPU fan goes to 1300~ under load, case to 700.

The AMI BIOS has NO code for it that is a continuous (non-stop). Just goes bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz no breaks. Their POST beeps mention short and long ones, but no non-stop ones.

-PSU EVGA 700B Bronze. The newly released PSU. I got it the day after TPU posted it on its front page as a press release. It took forever to get here, and I can't test it really. The voltages seem fine (pls check attached image for mobo voltage). But GPU-Z mentions that VOp and Vrel thing.

700W not enough for 2600k + 980Ti?

NEW SPECS:

-2600K 3.4Ghz no-oc. Turbo boost enabled, shows up in benchmarks
-1333 DDR3 4GBx2 A-DATA
-EVGA 980Ti Classified
-EVO 850 SSD
-WD Black 1TB 1003Model
-GA-B75M-D3H rev 1.2
-EVGA 700B PSU

There are no other components in here besides the ones listed. 700W should be enough for the above.
No other fans, ODD, etc.

PSU Problem? Mobo Problem?

 

[Ferrum Master]

Well usually long beep means RAM error...

It could be bad bios... I hate gigabyte boards btw, just because of that. You need to rule out problems. Try booting with one stick. Or... you must fiddle with voltages, for ram and bridges, rise them up. It may compensate the boot up process instability.

 

[Aquinus]

VRel seems to indicate that supplied voltage is unreliable and VOp seems to indicate that voltage is out of spec. This could either be the PSU or with the cables supplying power to the GPU if I understand it correctly.

 

[fec32a4de]

Okay so, I've connected two power supplies. A 500W B and a 700W B using the bridge like plastic thing that evga provided. 500W powers the system, and 1x8pin connector, the 700W powers the other 1x8pin connector. Also did reverse. 700w on system and 1 card connector and 500w on the other. The issue is still here.

So its not a PSU problem I guess? Fiddling with RAM didn't help either. Tried different DDR3 sticks (1066) instead of my 1333.

The only problem remains is the Mobo then? I remember hating Gigabyte because bunch of em failed on me before, so I didn't buy em for a while.
Decided to give them another chance and I get a buzzing motherboard whose manual has nothing to do with it. Also can't set front panel audio from ac97 to hd. But that's a minor thing.

My problem is finding a 1155 Sandy bridge mobo that's mATX. Because 1155 is hella old. And the few I find new won't ship to Canada.

So wish I had money on me for a Z170 board, a Skylake CPU and some DDR4 RAM.

Y'all know this a lot better than me. What am I doing next? Finding new mobo?

EDIT:
Check the speaker images. The buzzer ones. The 980Ti classified doesn't have one right? Im getting paranoid here. I remember these asshole speakers on my 8800GTS (different from the pic posted). Forget a PCIE connector and it goes off with the most annoying sound in the world.

Pulling the Mobo/case speaker off gets rid of the noise, so by that logic the video card can't buzz. But what if it has one of these little hidden fuckers that goes off? I've looked at 980Ti disassembled ones on google and I don't think 980s have em? Do they?

 

[stakarVN]

I just solved my own buzzing nightmare on an identical motherboard. I used a splitter to connect two case fans to the case fan header. The buzzing is ... the case fan fail alert (for me anyway). The fans are slow to rev up and this triggers the alert. Unless I keep turning off and powering up five times in a row; probably the fans get warmed up a bit then and rev up faster ---> buzz stops.

Just disable the case fan fail alert in bios, you'll see.

 

[basco]

what happens if you game whithout that beeper? can you run games whihout probs??

i did not use a beeper for years so i would not even know if there are some beeps.-maybe too paranoid. or just what stakarVN said!

and it seems to me your ram is very old with 4x2gb maybe some rtl settings not sticking-this would go with sometimes it boots sometimes not

 

[stakarVN]

Did I misunderstand ? The system boots despite the buzz I thought (it does for me). Your computer then runs fine but you still keep hearing that buuuuuuuzzzzzz.

 

[Caring1]

Does that GPU draw more than the 56A the PSU supplies on the single 12V rail?
All I can find is it needs 300W continual.