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This is the telltale sound of one of your system fans going into overtime.

When you boot software that uses 3D graphics (or even when you boot up the computer!), you may hear what sounds like a small jet aircraft taking off within the PC. Tip: if the black screen isn’t from your graphics card, learn how to fix the Windows black screen of death. If it works with either of those, it’s most likely your graphics card at fault. You’ll have to resort to integrated graphics or a cheap “throwaway” graphics card to see if your card or your monitor is acting up. Sometimes you won’t see any visual clues at all! A bad graphics card can decide to stop working and not display anything. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Black Screens Not every crash will be caused by the graphics card, but if you have memory dumps enabled and they blame the graphics card driver, you can safely conclude it’s the culprit. These crashes can be varied, from a simple blue screen of death (BSOD) to a “lockup” (where the PC freezes but doesn’t show a blue screen), to random restarts and powering off. Graphics cards that have gone rogue can cause a PC to crash. But if your GPU is running below expectations, you should start looking into solutions. It’s one thing for the framerate in a game to be a little below (or above) what you expect – there are many variables to consider. You buy a new gaming laptop or GPU, having heard that it will run your games at searingly fast framerates, but when it comes to actually running the games, it’s performing 30% or worse below expectations.