The clicking noise is possibly the reader arm skipping across the platters on your hard drive
a dirty hard first clean all of the dust from your computer using a fine air blower using a vacuum cleaner with no metal piping you might short your motherboard out if metal touches anything
or a fine air blower from a compressor making sure there is no MOISTURE in the air line then give the hard drive a firm tap on one side to free up the read arm
you could run the check disk utility
Click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which willscan for and attempt to repair any bad
sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive
then defragment your hard drive
don't do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer
It might be power or data trying to get a connection make sure all power and data leads are securely attached
if this fails you might have a dirty hard driver with the reader arm skipping across the platters on your hard drive
give the hard drive a firm tap on the side to free up the reader arm you might be able to get it going long enough to salvage your data or it might go for a longer time
or you might use the freeze hard drive
http://lifehacker.com/170257/macgyver-tip--save-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer
Should I start with the keyboard and replace it or should I get both the motherboard and the keyboard? I am not sure how to start here. Thanks
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