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Ticking noise in computer

Lord Szechenyi
By Lord Szechenyi
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Hi

i have a desktop computer, and sometimes, when i play very demanding games (or if the pc is turned on for a long time) it does a "TICK" noise.

only once, but still, it makes me a bit nervous.

should i be worried?

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Check if it's coil whine and let us know if it sounds like that.

If it's not, check if it's hard drive clicking noise, let us know.

If it's not, check if it sounds like a fan hitting a cable and let us know.

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2 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Check if it's coil whine and let us know if it sounds like that.

If it's not, check if it's hard drive clicking noise, let us know.

If it's not, check if it sounds like a fan hitting a cable and let us know.

no hard drives, only ssd.

it doesn't sound like a coil whine, it really sounds like if i clicked/flipped a switch

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16 minutes ago, truescot said:

open the side of the case and record the sound and let us hear :) 

the problem is, it's quite random (on average, i hear it once every 1h30-2hours) and i just can't record for that long

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2 minutes ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

the problem is, it's quite random (on average, i hear it once every 1h30-2hours) and i just can't record for that long

Just stick your phone recording beside it and forget about it, delete the recording after if it didnt make a noise.  I get that it will take some time to eventually capture but you are far more likely to get someone to recognise the sound than just the word tick :)

 

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15 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

How?

depends on the type of phone you have got, but for instance every android phone has an app called sound recorder you can use.  Iphone also has the same sort of thing but i dont talk about apple :D

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21 minutes ago, truescot said:

depends on the type of phone you have got, but for instance every android phone has an app called sound recorder you can use.  Iphone also has the same sort of thing but i dont talk about apple :D

i don't have an android phone

i have an Alcatel 1066G

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just checked out your phone and it does indeed have a sound recorder in it but unless you have a microsd card of 32gb(the max that phone supports) you are shit outta luck on that point i'm afraid as there is no way it's going to be able to record for long with only 8mb of internal memory :(

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