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Originally Posted by af3
It could be a berring in the CPU fan...
How fast is the ticking? .25 seconds? .5 seconds?
Does it sound like a metal tick or a plastic tick?
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No as I quite clearly said, I stopped the CPU FAN and it continues. To answer other posits in the thread. Yes I tried it with the MB out so it is not arcing.
It is NOT the speaker, again there is NO speaker- in- attached- or nearby. What would adding one do except to confuse the issue?
Ram, I tried it with each stick out and mixed up the slot they were in.. still clicks.
It is a clicking at intervals of a bit less than 1 second. It sounds both electrical and mechanical. Does not sound like arcing at all.
It does not speed up or slow down no matter what I have tried.
I even ran variations of hardware, with just a linux live boot disk, with a DOS disk, nothing matters. Just click, click, click.
I have also tried it with the HD off, with all drives out, some out, some in, with a different HD, different sticks of ram... all it can be is the CPU, or something else on the board
Totally bafflig.