Resolved Repetitive clicking sound on BIOS boot-up screen?

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Wow thanks for all the replies.

In spite of all that is sid, I think it is the KEYBOARD. My logic? Replaced keyboard with another one and will not make the quick repititive clicks on boot-up. Put the culprit keyboard back on and walla! clicky sounds again. Like I said maybe it is a stuck key? Thay keeps sending out a command to the mobo which is making the system clicky on boot-up. I don't think it sound like a HD click.

I am too lazy to go in there. I want to at least troubleshoot my keyboard first. It is a ancient PS/2 keyboard I purchased second-hand simply because it had buckling-spring (tactile) keys.

WOW! I think I might have it! The F11 key was jammed somehow (not very noticable). This was also causing this occasional annoying rapid full screen/normal screen toggle in firefox. I'm going to reboot see if this fixes it.

 

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That's weird. I've seen problems with stuck keys loads of times on keyboards, but its almost invariably a beep rather than a click that you hear. Also, if the key was stuck all the time your browsing would be (ahem) 'interesting' all the time, rather than - as you;ve alluded to - it being an intermittent thing. Certainly seems like you;ve found the culprit though!

 

FIXED. It was a stuck F11 key. My initial suspicion was correct.

Usually XP tells you about stuck-keys, this is what threw me off

 

glad you fixed it, dont forget to set the thread title prefix to 'Resolved' though.

 

How do I do that?

 

There should be an edit button on the bottom right of your first post. edit it and change the prefix from within there (I think).

 

Well the OP may not be able to edit the original post after all this time, so i changed it to *resolved* funny though it comes up in the listings as *sold*

 

That is an issue with the time limits on editing posts. Presumably there is some method that allows the OP to change the prefix without editing their post?

 

So the sound was in fact coming from the PC speaker then (motherboard speaker).

Glad you found out where it came from.