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Clicking noise from the PSU

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I got this noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4RllphqLo coming from my psu (http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00105015.html ldlc bg500). The noise come irreguraly, sometime it stop for few hours and then it come back. Could it be harmful for my computer and can I fix it myself ?
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>>55552691
How old is your PSU, have you cleaned it recently?
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>>55552691
>hackers can turn your PC into a bomb.jpg
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I bought it 2 years ago and the fan is clean..
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>>55552691
It's probably just sparks going off inside the thing. It should be all right. It's pretty normal for bronze rated PSUs.
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Ok ty, just, sometime the sound is really loud so I wanted to be sure
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>>55552691
It probably has a switch style voltage regulator, its a way for them to increase efficiency by constantly turning on and off the power. It's literally the sound of a switch flipping on and off. It probably only happens when the psu gets warm or is under load, and otherwise functions without the switch regulator. I forgot the actual term for the component. It's perfectly normal.

>>55553818
Can also be this, is it more of a loud tick / click or kind of an erratic crackling sound?
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>>55552691
Throw it away. I heard clicking on my old psu often too. I thought it wasn't a big deal since it wasn't rebooting on it's own or shutting down. Eventually it just shut down on it's own. I managed to do a backup of my drive before it killed it too.
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>>55552691
Your fan maybe running out of oil. Open your psu carefully and apply sewing machine oil in the fan.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/quiet-noisy-computer-fans-with-a-drop-of-oil/
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