leroytrolley Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Hi.I'm a bit stumped here people!!I've just turned on my P.C. (I'm writing this on my Laptop), and its gone crazy.It wont turn on properly. Its amking a really strange loadish clicking noise from inside. I've opened it up and cut the power to all of the main components to see what is making the noise. I think the the noise is coming from one of the CD-Rom Dtrives or the floppy drive. There is nothing in the floppy drive but I cant get into the cdrom drives because the pc wont turn on.The power light is flashing like made as are the Caps-Lock/Num-Lock LEDS. Anybody got any ideas what is going on here???Leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Clicking or ticking noises usually come from failing or failed hard drives.Disconnect the power to the hard drive and try booting up. It will most likely complain that there is no hard drive present but it will point to the culprit if it is that. Similarly, you could disconnect the optical drive(s) in turn as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroytrolley Posted November 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 OK. I've got rid of the noise. Not sure where it was coming from.The PC still wont actiually boot up.All what happens it that my power led and the num-lock, cap-lock and scroll lock leds on the keyboard are flashing very fast.Leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 What did you do to get rid of the noise?This is seeming to be a catastrophic failure of the machine requiring, I think, the services of someone very knowledgeable to have the machine in front of him (or her) and look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroytrolley Posted November 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 I just unplugged the cdrom drives one by one. To be honest, I think most of the noise was coming from the speakers.Leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 There isn't a disk stuck in the CD drive is there?Seems odd that a faulty optical drive (if it is that) should cause problems like this - especially affect the keyboard and suchlike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroytrolley Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 My P.C is still broken.It's giving no signal the the monitor, and still nothing is happening apart from the hard drive led flashing very very fast and all my led's on the keyboard are also going nuts.I've again unpluged everything inside the p.c and had a good look in the cd-rom drives (nothing in them).Any othre suggestions would be great otherwise its a trip to the computer shop.Cheers.Leroyleroytrolley at hotmail.com (I'm online) Replace the "at" with the correct symbol if replying.It isn't a good idea to post email addresses on websites. Unscrupulous people use bots to trawl the Internet looking for the @ symbol for nefarious purposes.Edited by -pops- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 I think my reply of 27 November still applies.There seems to be a sever failure somewhere that cannot easily be remedied by question and answer sessions such that might be had here.I really think you need someone with sufficient knowledge to have the machine in front of them before attempting any repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 If you use a paperclip, stretched out, you can poke it into the little hole on the front of your CD-ROM to see if anything is stuck inside of it. (no power required! :))As for the ticking, try booting your computer without the hard drive, CD-ROM, or any other devices plugged in and see if the bios screen comes up. If not, chances are something is either not connected properly inside, or it has bit the dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroytrolley Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Yeah....I've literally unpluged everything and just had the power lead connect to the wall and turned it on, but nothing happens at all.Thanks anyway. I'm going to rescue my files from my hard drives and bin it.Leroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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