Ticking noise from PC

dt97583 · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:34

Hi,

Any ideas what could be the reason behind a ticking noise, two ticks every second roughly, from my PC which is sitting about a metre away from me in an otherwise silent bedroom? Power supply maybe?

Thanks

Lazy · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:38

Something obstructing a fan? Where a cable swings back or hits it again every few seconds ? Or a bad fan bearing ?

dacads · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:41

tick tock hmm I wonder what it is

DaleTheWhale · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:45

Hard drive?

arknor · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:47

probably a fan maybe one of the bearings is failing.

try stopping them with your finger by pressing on the circular part in the middle obviously (although I doubt most pc fans have a high enough rpm to hurt you these days anyway)

delta fans used to sting like hell or cut the skin

On Holiday · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:52

HDD or Fan.

dt97583 · 18 Mar 2013 at 06:37

Thanks guys. The mechanical HDD is yet to be formatted so I reckon it be a cable.

snips86x · 18 Mar 2013 at 06:53

Do you have any cables with labels which could be knocking against the fan?

My old laptop used to do this.

ubersonic · 18 Mar 2013 at 08:36

PWM fans? a lot of them make a ticking noise on low speed.

Parabellum · 18 Mar 2013 at 08:54

ubersonic said:
PWM fans? a lot of them make a ticking noise on low speed.

I had this.. easily fixed

Diagro · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:56

Its a bomb o.O

SoAdCrAzY · 18 Mar 2013 at 14:25

My XFX PSU constantly ticks now. Apparently it's a common problem.

mast3r · 18 Mar 2013 at 15:29

HDD or Fan

dacads · 18 Mar 2013 at 16:45

SoAdCrAzY said:
My XFX PSU constantly ticks now. Apparently it's a common problem.

Well you should look to get it replaced if it's still under warranty

NZXT30 · 18 Mar 2013 at 16:47

SoAdCrAzY said:
My XFX PSU constantly ticks now. Apparently it's a common problem.

i had the same problem got fed up and replaced the fan.

SoAdCrAzY · 19 Mar 2013 at 01:19

dacads said:
Well you should look to get it replaced if it's still under warranty

I should but it's such a hassle. The PSU needs replacing and the motherboard needs replacing. The mobo warranty is probably void as it is damaged. No idea if I'd need to replace the GPU too as that plays up too but may just be the mobo's fault.

steve258 · 19 Mar 2013 at 01:56

Last time I had this problem it was the PSU. It was constant and fast ticking sound that worsen as power load increases.

ticktickticktickticktickticktickTICKTICKTICKTICK

Akagi · 19 Mar 2013 at 02:00

steve258 said:
Last time I had this problem it was the PSU. It was constant and fast ticking sound that worsen as power load increases.

ticktickticktickticktickticktickTICKTICKTICKTICK

Yeah, this. It seems to be affecting Corsair PSU's recently as well.

But as mentioned previously, it could be a fan. The bearings went in my rear fan a while ago, it made a ticking sound. The bearings in my intake fan are going too... That one buzzes...

kingbender · 19 Mar 2013 at 07:15

i would back up the hard drive soon. as in very soon.

Akagi · 19 Mar 2013 at 07:38

kingbender said:
i would back up the hard drive soon. as in very soon.

Oh, yeah that's a thing. My laptop started making ticking noises so I thought I had better do a backup, the hard drive failed on me 3/4 of the way through the backup. I guess all that copying killed it.