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So I have this experience where my computer would make random ticking sounds that sound like two marbles hitting each other softly. I had this problem before on my older computer and I thought it was the power supply, so i RMAed and replaced it. While i was waiting for my replacement to arrive, I bought new parts and built a whole new computer, but it had the same motherboard and graphics card models (gtx 680 and msiz77agd65 mobo). After I got my psu back and put the computer together with the new parts, I started getting the same exact ticking noise again. I'm thinking this could be either a problem with the msi gtx 680s or the msi boards in general since I got new ones and the sound is still there. My old msi board and msi gtx680 is also making the same sound. What do you guys think is the problem here?
PS: I am not experiencing any instabilities in the system. Computer runs fine without any trouble. The only problem that I'm getting is that strange sound.
new specs:
msi z77agd65 (1 month old)
msi gtx680 (1 month old)
i7 3770k (1 month old)
Corsair 850w psu (replacement = 1 month old)
Corsair vengeance 8gb (replacement = 1 month old)
old specs:
msi z77agd65 (2 years old)
msi gtx680 (1 year old)
i5 2400 (2 years old)
Same psu and ram



 
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mousseng

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As anonymous said, it's very likely it could be your hard drive. Mine makes loud, rapid clicking noises whenever it needs to read/write. This happened with an older hard drive of mine, as well. Would you mind telling us the make/model of your hard drive?
 
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Do you have another HDD? Maybe you could unplug the one you're currently using and test another one to see if you still get the clicking sound. Or do you have more than one HDD in this build?

Since you seem to have really high end parts, it might be a good opportunity to upgrade to a SSD, then you could spend a few weeks without the HDD and see if you still hear the sound.
 
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I removed the gpu and hdd completely, still got the same noise.

 
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The noise is completely random. Sometimes it ramps up (mostly when the computer first starts) and ramps down whenever it wants to. Usually its the worst during the first few minutes after the computer starts up. I've tried unplugging fans as you suggested. The noise is still there :(. Now that I think about it, that ticking sound kind of sounds like a static shock, but I really don't know what to think of it anymore. I practically purchased a whole new computer minus the fact that most new parts I bought were from the same manufacturer as the old computer, which was probably my biggest mistake.
 
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I only use headsets, don't have speakers and I don't have a sound card plugged in either. You might be right about the BIOS bug though. How can I check if it is? could it be some feature in BIOS that is causing this ticking noise? speedstep or turbo boost maybe? I literally can't find a single person on the internet who has the same kind of noise that i'm getting, which seems rather hopeless. It's as if aliens are trying to communicate with me via that ticking noise and no one seems to know what the hell i'm talking about. As frustrating and time consuming this problem is, it still feels kinda funny.
 
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What about the motherboard/case speaker if you have one?
Note this would be either inside your computer case or soldered to the motherboard.
 
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Don't mean to sound dumb, but I have no idea how to locate the motherboard speaker. Didn't even know that motherboards had speakers soldered to it.
 
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The noise does seem to be strongest when my ear is near the psu although it is still really hard to tell. The only thing that i'm 100% sure about is that the noise is coming from the very bottom half of my case all the way in the back (from where the gpu is down to the PSU).
 
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I had this problem after switching on my pc today, and I had no display either, and the motherboard wasn't responding to the reset button just a tick, tick, tick from the mobo.
I thought my motherboard was shagged. Turns out the problem was my 8 pin power connector for the cpu. It wasn't loose but when I pulled it and plugged it back in everything was fine. Really weird..
EDIT:
This happened to me again today.. This time it was a dodgy stick of ram. Make of that what you will..
 
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