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'Mouse click' sound keeps randomly happening on Windows 7

My PC keeps making a mouse click sound that happens when you open a folder or click a link on the internet. Thing is- it does it when nothing is open and there is no user activity. It's almost like there's a ghost opening folders and clicking links…
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What is causing my hard drive's click of death?

Upon bootup I have a drive that will spin up click and few times then spin down. I have a spare drive (same model number) I attempted to transfer the heads from with no luck, HOWEVER, the heads from the bad drive work fine in the spare drive. …
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Hard drive won't initialize, spins up, makes 2 clicks, and spins up again

When I booted my computer today, it wouldn't progress past BIOS. One of the drives ( the one holding the OS, of course ) spins up, goes "click click", and then spins down and repeats the process. How recoverable would you say this drive is (or…
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New Laptop hard drive is clicking

Ive got a new laptop and the hard drive keeps clicking randomly and sporadically. I've ran Check Disk and there were no bad sectors. I've also tried HD Tune (and others) to check the health of the HDD and everything is ok. Could the HDD still be on…
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Can a "click of death" from one drive cause an SMI (system management interrupt) or similar?

I have two harddrives, and one seems to do the click of death sometimes (head crash?). At the same time video playback from another drive is disturbed (video compression artefacts occur, or video staggers). Why is this?
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Do I have to worry about HDD clicking sound?

After my desktop died I bought a used PC for temporary use. It says Intel(R) Pentium(D) 3.00GHz with 150G. I also added my desktop's HDD of 500G. Whenever I open a program there is about 5 seconds delay then I hear a clicking sound and then the…
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Strange click and hard disk pause when laptop held at angle

I've noticed that when I carefully rearrange my Sony VAIO Fit 15 in bed while holding it at a very specific angle, an audible click comes from withing the casing. I also noticed that while watching a video from my hard disk, the video would…
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Semi-random clicking sound from Macbook Pro

There is an occasional click sound coming from my Macbook Pro (17", 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo) I upgraded to Snow Leopard recently, but the computer was also in for service about week before that, so I can't be certain the OS upgrade is related. The sound…
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Seagate HDD makes strange sound while idling every minute or so (audio inside)

It's this exact sound most of the times but it sometimes can do other similar but less distinctive soft clicking sounds as well, also while only idling. It's a brand new drive (3.5'', 1TB). The SMART data reports a very high number of raw read error…
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Is there a linux program to make my keys clicky?

In Windows, you can use the ClicKey program to make click sounds when you type keys. In Mac OS X, you can use KeyClick. Is there any such program for Linux? I'm using Gnome and Ubuntu 9.10. xset c doesn't seem to work.
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Graphics card clicking during POST

During the POST the graphics card makes a rhythmic clicking sound and the post lasts much longer than usual. However after 5-10 seconds the computer boots as normal. When I remove the graphics card the sounds stop and when using a different graphics…
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My hard drive does single clicks every once in a while. Is this considered the click of death?

I've watched a few youtube videos demonstrating the so called click of death and they all show a hard drive that 'clicks' nonstop. My hard drive will occasionally make a clicking sound, but it happens sporadically and it's usually just one click.…
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Load/Unload Cycle of a Hard Drive

Hard Drive Information: Make: Western Digital Model Number: WD5000BPKT What the non-computer-fellas call it: Western Digital Scorpio Black Age: About 2 to 3 months old. Power On Hours: 127 Hours Load-Unload Cycles: 777 Unsafe Shut Down…
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Strange buzzing sound coming from computer

My PC starts making a strange buzzing sound after being on for ~15 minutes, regardless of what is happening (no intense gaming or processing) and the CPU temp seems to remain normal. I tried looking up coil whine but didn't seem to explain what I…
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Sound crackling on a brand new Gigabyte motherboard

I purchased a brand new Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR, but when I put together the computer and started it, the music seemed to crackle. I taught it was some driver problem, so I reinstalled Windows 7 x64. However, after reinstall the problem was still…
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