How long until the chirping stops or what can I do to make it stop?

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Published on 2012-10-14T21:36:59Z Indexed on 2012/10/14 21:40 UTC
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I know computers, I have been fixing them and building them for over a decade... but I don't know the exact electronics of them.

My personal desktop PC is making an irregular, but constant, extremely high pitched chirping noise. I know this could be my hard drive, but I've heard that noise before and I believe this is a capacitor or part of the electronics. This noise is right at the edge of my hearing and I can feel it more than I can hear it.

After a while, it starts to give me a headache and makes me physically sick.

How long will this last? Is there anything I can do to fix it (short of replacing the entire motherboard)?

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