The invention belongs to the fields of the state monitoring and the fault diagnosis of vehicles, ships, engineering machinery, locomotive cars, engines, and the like by applying noise signals, in particular to a mechanical fault judgment system and method based on noise test, particularly suitable for complicated mechanical machinery which can not be provided with various sensors. The system comprises a high-frequency microphone, a sound card, a PC (Personal Computer) and a telescopic bracket, wherein the high-frequency microphone is fixed on the telescopic bracket and connected with the sound card, the sampling frequency of the high-frequency microphone can meet the requirement of the Nyquist theorem, and the sound card is connected with the PC. On the basis of combing the extraction andfractal algorithm of an energy band, noise signals in machinery operation are acquired and calculated to test mechanical faults by using the method; the system is simple to set, the economic cost is decreased, and the operation safety and the fault diagnosis accuracy are improved.