Odd beep sounds coming from power supply?!

[Shenrien]

I don't know why its making this noise, its a very high pitch, but low frequency squelch and it started doing it tonight, it does it at random, sometimes for 10-20 min at a time, and other time it'll just do it once every few seconds, its about a year old ish :s and I've never encountered something like this before, I plan on buying a can of compressed air when a store is open and blasting it to see if that will fix any problems.

edit -

it does have LEDs so does my case and when the LEDs in my case died they kept flickering and making strange noises kinda similar to this :s hoping that is just the problem.

[Yabby]

Sounds like a diode problem. I can't think of anything else that could make a sound in a PS. I would suggest tho not trying to fix the problem and just replace it.

[Olo401]

It's definitely a bad capacitor.. You need to replace the power supply because eventually that cap will pop and take your system with it.

[Shenrien]

any clue if this power supply would last me until probably earliest wednesday? ordered a new power supply today, :s figured wednesday would be the earliest it would arrive.

[Ikith]

I wouldn't risk it as you don't know when it will go and when it does as the person before your post said it will take your system with it.

[Xajii]

just take it out and wait if at all possible, you don't want to have to pay for a new mobo and everything.