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Hello everyone!

 

I have noticed a weird clicking noise coming from my PC which I am worried of.

 

I read some topics from google but they just did not give me the right answer.

 

First I thought that it would be my HDD, so I went and replaced my three year old Seagate Barracuda to a brand new WD black 1TB HDD.

I plugged in the new HDD and booted up my PC and after a bit of idling the sound was back.

I am REALLY worried what is wrong with my PC.

 

I read some topics from the internet and they say that it could be the PSU.

I think for most likely it is NOT the PSU because it is around 6 months old Cooler Master V650 semi modular 650 watt 80 plus GOLD powersupply.

 

Only part in my PC that I think is older than 7 months is my CPU cooler that I got from my friend.

 

CPU cooler: Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme

 

That CPU cooler has two fans on it so I was thinking could one of the two or both be making that ANNOYING clicking sound what makes me SO worried.

 

This is stressing me SO BAD so I hope someone would help me.

 

With best regards, Hedelmamies84

 

 

 

 

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Check if any cables are hitting fan blades while they're spinning, it could be causing the sound.

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You have a mini Alien inside your case. RIP.

;):P:D

It could easily be the fans. I would try swapping out the fans with a new fan, one-by-one, and see if the problem persists.

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do the fans have things in, basically, take out the gpu and unplug ALL the fans even the cpu ones, and leave it to boot (dont worry about the heat, as long as you dont play games or run benchmarks it will be ok for a short time) and see if the sound is there if it is, we can rule out most of the components and it could be the PSU, however if it doesnt come back then slowly start adding components till it returns then you can narrow down the source of the problem

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i would start unplugging stuff and then look if the noice is gone. here's the order in which i would go:

speakers/headphones, motherboard speaker, hdd, individual fans, graphics card and then pretty much anything you still have in there apart from the psu and the power button

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Can you record some sound?

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Thanks for the answers everybody! I will start to investigate when I have the time! :D

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Can you record some sound?

I could try to record some audio when I have the time. Tomorrow I think. :)

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Check if any cables are hitting fan blades while they're spinning, it could be causing the sound.

 

You have a mini Alien inside your case. RIP.

;):P:D

It could easily be the fans. I would try swapping out the fans with a new fan, one-by-one, and see if the problem persists.

 

do the fans have things in, basically, take out the gpu and unplug ALL the fans even the cpu ones, and leave it to boot (dont worry about the heat, as long as you dont play games or run benchmarks it will be ok for a short time) and see if the sound is there if it is, we can rule out most of the components and it could be the PSU, however if it doesnt come back then slowly start adding components till it returns then you can narrow down the source of the problem

 

i would start unplugging stuff and then look if the noice is gone. here's the order in which i would go:

speakers/headphones, motherboard speaker, hdd, individual fans, graphics card and then pretty much anything you still have in there apart from the psu and the power button

 

I will do that tomorrow because then I will have some time. I will report back here if it worked or not! :)

 

And sorry if I use this quote system wrong because I am not the best doing these kind of topic things. :D

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Check if any cables are hitting fan blades while they're spinning, it could be causing the sound.

 

You have a mini Alien inside your case. RIP.

;):P:D

It could easily be the fans. I would try swapping out the fans with a new fan, one-by-one, and see if the problem persists.

 

do the fans have things in, basically, take out the gpu and unplug ALL the fans even the cpu ones, and leave it to boot (dont worry about the heat, as long as you dont play games or run benchmarks it will be ok for a short time) and see if the sound is there if it is, we can rule out most of the components and it could be the PSU, however if it doesnt come back then slowly start adding components till it returns then you can narrow down the source of the problem

 

i would start unplugging stuff and then look if the noice is gone. here's the order in which i would go:

speakers/headphones, motherboard speaker, hdd, individual fans, graphics card and then pretty much anything you still have in there apart from the psu and the power button

 

Can you record some sound?

 

Hey guys! I have a little update.

 

The sound that is coming from my PC is more of a ticking than clicking sound.

Also I have noticed the sound occurs always after playing a game or doing some other intensive task.

Like I was running Unigine Valley benchmark a while ago and my PC ticked a few times.

Then I tested playing The Witcher 3 for a while and after I stopped the game the ticking started

 

I will start removing the components one by one in a little bit but how should I do that?

When I remove the components let's say my GPU or my HDD do I let my computer to boot up to Windows or just the bios?

I have integrated graphics on my CPU so I could use that to boot to WIndows environment right ?

 

So those will be my updated questions and news.

 

With best regards, Hedelmamies84

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Hey guys! I have a little update.

 

The sound that is coming from my PC is more of a ticking than clicking sound.

Also I have noticed the sound occurs always after playing a game or doing some other intensive task.

Like I was running Unigine Valley benchmark a while ago and my PC ticked a few times.

Then I tested playing The Witcher 3 for a while and after I stopped the game the ticking started

 

I will start removing the components one by one in a little bit but how should I do that?

When I remove the components let's say my GPU or my HDD do I let my computer to boot up to Windows or just the bios?

I have integrated graphics on my CPU so I could use that to boot to WIndows environment right ?

 

So those will be my updated questions and news.

 

With best regards, Hedelmamies84

does the computer do it at idle ? if it doesnt then it may be somthing with the gpu. if it does it at idle then do what you said about booting into the bios

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does the computer do it at idle ? if it doesnt then it may be somthing with the gpu. if it does it at idle then do what you said about booting into the bios

 

Hello!

 

Yes my PC does it on idle aswell. it is actually doing it right now when I am writing this.

 

Most of the time the ticking noise comes when I quit some intensive task.

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Do you have a stock AMD/Intel cooler?

Try with that and tell us the results

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Do you have a stock AMD/Intel cooler?

Try with that and tell us the results

 

Yeah I have one. I could try that aswell.

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Could be the PSU happened to me before and I replaced it through warranty

 

I hope I don't need to do that because that process could take a while.

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Hey bro,

Check if any of your cables within the PC are coming into contact with any of the fans or if the fans are scraping on anything if not I would take the parts out individually and check if there okay and put them back in again.

Hopefully this helps towards your problem! :D

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i would start unplugging stuff and then look if the noice is gone. here's the order in which i would go:

speakers/headphones, motherboard speaker, hdd, individual fans, graphics card and then pretty much anything you still have in there apart from the psu and the power button

 

Hey bro,

Check if any of your cables within the PC are coming into contact with any of the fans or if the fans are scraping on anything if not I would take the parts out individually and check if there okay and put them back in again.

Hopefully this helps towards your problem! :D

 

do the fans have things in, basically, take out the gpu and unplug ALL the fans even the cpu ones, and leave it to boot (dont worry about the heat, as long as you dont play games or run benchmarks it will be ok for a short time) and see if the sound is there if it is, we can rule out most of the components and it could be the PSU, however if it doesnt come back then slowly start adding components till it returns then you can narrow down the source of the problem

 

You have a mini Alien inside your case. RIP.

;):P:D

It could easily be the fans. I would try swapping out the fans with a new fan, one-by-one, and see if the problem persists.

 

Hello again guys!

 

I finally have some time to mess up with my system a bit.

 

You guys said that I could start unplug stuff one by one, but I was wondering couldn't I just test the system with another PSU I have lying around which is the Corsair CX 500M.

Then I would be able to tell right away if the problem is the PSU. Right?

 

Reason to this is because if I start unplugging stuff one by one let's say like the fans for example, my system actually needs to be ON for some time in order the sound to occur. 

 

And BTW the sound is more of a SLOW ticking which I may have not be telling the correct way. :D

 

Sorry for this problem taking some of your time but I REALLY appreciate all the help all of you are giving to me! :)

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Hello again guys!

 

I finally have some time to mess up with my system a bit.

 

You guys said that I could start unplug stuff one by one, but I was wondering couldn't I just test the system with another PSU I have lying around which is the Corsair CX 500M.

Then I would be able to tell right away if the problem is the PSU. Right?

 

Reason to this is because if I start unplugging stuff one by one let's say like the fans for example, my system actually needs to be ON for some time in order the sound to occur. 

 

And BTW the sound is more of a SLOW ticking which I may have not be telling the correct way. :D

 

Sorry for this problem taking some of your time but I REALLY appreciate all the help all of you are giving to me! :)

How slow is slow? Like, are we talking a couple seconds between ticks? More?

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How slow is slow? Like, are we talking a couple seconds between ticks? More?

 

The ticking isn't continuous. It is like three ticks and then a small break and then again three ticks and a small break. The break is like few seconds.

 

But the ticking changes from time to time but most of the time it is like I described.

 

BTW it is like high pitched tick.

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The ticking isn't continuous. It is like three ticks and then a small break and then again three ticks and a small break. The break is like few seconds.

 

But the ticking changes from time to time but most of the time it is like I described.

 

BTW it is like high pitched tick.

That sounds to me like the search arm in a bad HDD. Have you run any kind of health check/benchmarks on the HDD yet? If not, download HDTune and run both the benchmark, health check, and error scan (the error scan will take a while, especially if it's a large capacity HDD). Take a screen shot of the benchmarking results and error scan screens and post it here so I can look at it.

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The ticking isn't continuous. It is like three ticks and then a small break and then again three ticks and a small break. The break is like few seconds.

 

But the ticking changes from time to time but most of the time it is like I described.

 

BTW it is like high pitched thick

that sounds like a badly partitioned hdd or a really fragmented one.

how many partitions do you have on it?

and how large?

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That sounds to me like the search arm in a bad HDD. Have you run any kind of health check/benchmarks on the HDD yet? If not, download HDTune and run both the benchmark, health check, and error scan (the error scan will take a while, especially if it's a large capacity HDD). Take a screen shot of the benchmarking results and error scan screens and post it here so I can look at it.

No i haven't run any yet with this new HDD.

I will do that in a little bit and post the results here.

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that sounds like a badly partitioned hdd or a really fragmented one.

how many partitions do you have on it?

and how large?

 

It is brand new WD BLACK 1TB and I have only my games installed on it which takes about 300 GB of space. I haven't myself done any partitions.

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That sounds to me like the search arm in a bad HDD. Have you run any kind of health check/benchmarks on the HDD yet? If not, download HDTune and run both the benchmark, health check, and error scan (the error scan will take a while, especially if it's a large capacity HDD). Take a screen shot of the benchmarking results and error scan screens and post it here so I can look at it.

 

 

 

There are the results.

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