Clicking sound when power is off

Power-down the PC.
Remove all of the RAM modules.
Power-up the PC.
You SHOULD hear a series of Beeps. This is the Motherboard complaining that there is no RAM installed....this is normal.
*IF* you do NOT hear any Beeping, then the Motherboard is bad and would need replacing.....however depending on the age of the PC, it is usually not cost effective to do this, and sometimes you can't find just a Motherboard for sale and have to buy a whole used PC (same make/model,) and put your HD into it.

Post back with what the above test showed you.

Hi, you will need to do a complete re install of your operating system. If you require help with this come back to me, regards.

When you are using your com just check the cpu heat. or also change the battery.

Clicking noises are not uncommon for hard drives, though it is really difficult to tell. I have drives that made no clicking noises just stop working, and I have a clicking Western Digital that has been chugging along for over 5 years now. If those clicks lead into grating metal on metal sounds, you need to back up that disk.

Open the side of the case and locate your hard drive. Pull the red-yellow-black power cable from the hard drive and see if you still hear the clicking noise when you start the machine up. If you don't, i believe your hard drive is toasted.

It sounds like your hard drive has failed, IE.. the clicking/tapping sound. You could have the hard drive tested to be sure. You could swap out the hard drive to another machine and try it.


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Sounds like a bad hard drive. Back up all your data.
If your drive is making clicking sounds .. do it quickly or you will loose everything when the drive stop working altogether.

most clicking sound are made by failing harddrive... check with gateway people again if it is still under warranty and ask them to replace the drive or fix it.

fyi -- if it is really the hard drive that is making the clicking noise... there is a big chance that you will loose your data

try reconnect the buswire of your hard disk that is found inside your CPU,its color red/ gray flat wire..then redetect your HDD to your BIOS just to make sure its working.

If it's clicking then you may be out of luck. Sending it to a data recovery agency is really costly. You may (???) be able to get some files off the drive if you connect it to someone else's computer as a second drive. I've also heard that putting the drive in the freezer will sometimes let the drive work for a short period of time. But, IMHO the drive is toast.