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clicking sound
Name: drigz Date: April 15, 2004 at 18:16:09 Pacific OS: - CPU/Ram: -
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what causes the click sound computers make (which isnt the fan). they tend to make it more when theyre doing a lot. (id like an explanation, not just: its the hard drive)
Name: papa2 Date: April 15, 2004 at 19:28:43 Pacific
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The clicking from a hard drive is serious. It means that the heads are unloading. That `usually' means that the drive is about to die.
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Name: johnoh Date: April 15, 2004 at 20:12:03 Pacific
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I hope someone other than me is laughing that this post has been interpreted to mean the hard drive is making noise. The guy has told us nothing yet.
Response Number 5
Name: bbqbeef Date: April 15, 2004 at 20:33:53 Pacific
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he might have an Al-queda brand disk drive. watch out when it stops ticking.
Response Number 6
Name: papa2 Date: April 15, 2004 at 20:56:40 Pacific
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The only thing that I can think of in a PC that would click would be a fan or a hard drive.
Response Number 7
Name: Sabertooth Date: April 15, 2004 at 21:23:31 Pacific
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Neither one of mine clicks too, but both rattle for a second @ the desktop after reboot as NAV loads....
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Response Number 8
Name: Tomo Date: April 16, 2004 at 01:36:13 Pacific
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The cock in the bottom right hand corner is too loud...turn the sound down
Response Number 9
Name: drigz Date: April 16, 2004 at 09:58:58 Pacific
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no trust, all computers make it. its not exactly clicking, but thats the closest analogy i cud think of. i just said hard drive as an example of a component, i have no idea what causes it. thanks
Response Number 10
Name: johnoh Date: April 16, 2004 at 20:28:47 Pacific
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"all computers make it"
that is not correct
Response Number 11
Name: Kodie Date: April 18, 2004 at 18:02:46 Pacific
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The clicking sound is normal, depending on the intensity of the clicking. If it is subtle then the sound is normal. If there is loud clicks seperated by about one second then your drive is most likely bad or about to go bad. And yes Johnoh, all computers that have a hard drive make the clicking noise. Yes, on some of the computers it may be difficult to hear but the sound is still there. The arms on all hard drives still move.
Response Number 12
Name: inwinter Date: May 4, 2004 at 17:05:16 Pacific
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