The Tale Of The Weird Clicking Noise..

[Makaveli]

This isn't a post that I am posting because I need help, but more of a wonder...

About 3-4 years ago, I had an old desktop pc.. At 12:00 PM or AM (I can't remeber which one it was) it would freeze up, and make this REALLY odd clicking noise.. The best way I can describe this noise is to tell you to tap your finger nail on your PC case, lol.. But its still not exactly the noise it made.. The sound came from somewhere inside the desktop.. It wasn't a sound that sounded like something was hitting against something, so im pretty sure thats not what it was, and the fact that it happened at 12:00 really made this a weird thing.. The clicking pattern was like so.. Click Click- 1 second pause-Click Click

This thought just all of a sudden came to me, that I never figured out what that was... Can anyone solve the Tale Of The Clicking PC?

-MaK

[Imanage]

When hard drives start to go bad, you hear the heads moving back and forth rapidly trying to read the disk. Similar thing when your floppy chugs along trying to read a bad floppy. In a few instances, the harddrive can recover and mark a bad sector but the constant clicking usually indicates the drive went bad.

[eagle1]

Maybe it is a cable banging into something (maybe a fan or whatever!).! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Target]

The fact this this issue happened to you 3-4 years ago kinda makes all this speculation kind of mute, but I will take a wild stab in the dark on it.

The fact that it happened every day, at the same time, leads me to believe the cause was not hardware related at all.

It could have been something like a macro or scheduled event that you had setup, and upon executing, the corresponding sounds of say a mouse click were then played through the computer speaker.

Or it could have been a virus such as "The Click" which you can read about at the link below.

(http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=1236&)

Its really hard to tell given that the problem was experienced so long ago..... but good god man, let it go and put your mind at ease <lol> http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Makaveli]

Your right, lol.. This is nothing to worry about. I was just curious.. Im going to leave it alone, deciding that it was that Clicking Virus! Thanks for the Post/Link

-MaK

[cadetstimpy]

SCSI drives make that sound every so often during periods of inactivity. It is normal calibration.

[Makaveli]

And the drive went bad at 12:00 exactly on every day?

-MaK