My system specs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01310823. It is around five years old and is running Vista 32 bit Home Premium.
I recently installed a Sapphire Radeon 5450 graphics card on the machine to replace the crappy integrated graphics. After I put it in, I get a clicking from the motherboard speaker whenever I boot my computer up. It clicks about once every second, and the power LED on top of the tower and the hard drive light both flash in sync with the clicking. This all happens eight times, and then my computer boots. I can then do everything fine, unless I open a video game. Games freeze seconds after I start playing, with a godawful static-y sound in the speakers, and I have to hard reset the PC. If I remove the graphics card, the clicking goes away and the PC runs normally.
So far I have
Bought a new power supply (Coolmax CA-400, really cheap generic 400W PSU)
Ran memtest for ten passes - zero errors
Stress tested the video card with Furmark for twenty minutes - no freeze.
Stress tested the CPU with Prime 95 for two hours - no freeze
Tested the hard drive with chkdsk
Disabled the integrated graphics in the BIOS and uninstalled the drivers
Installed and reinstalled the drivers for my graphics card
Cleared my registry
I have no idea what's causing this, especially the clicking. I can't find anything on the Internet where someone has had a motherboard that clicks but the system still boots.
Thanks for your time.
I recently installed a Sapphire Radeon 5450 graphics card on the machine to replace the crappy integrated graphics. After I put it in, I get a clicking from the motherboard speaker whenever I boot my computer up. It clicks about once every second, and the power LED on top of the tower and the hard drive light both flash in sync with the clicking. This all happens eight times, and then my computer boots. I can then do everything fine, unless I open a video game. Games freeze seconds after I start playing, with a godawful static-y sound in the speakers, and I have to hard reset the PC. If I remove the graphics card, the clicking goes away and the PC runs normally.
So far I have
Bought a new power supply (Coolmax CA-400, really cheap generic 400W PSU)
Ran memtest for ten passes - zero errors
Stress tested the video card with Furmark for twenty minutes - no freeze.
Stress tested the CPU with Prime 95 for two hours - no freeze
Tested the hard drive with chkdsk
Disabled the integrated graphics in the BIOS and uninstalled the drivers
Installed and reinstalled the drivers for my graphics card
Cleared my registry
I have no idea what's causing this, especially the clicking. I can't find anything on the Internet where someone has had a motherboard that clicks but the system still boots.
Thanks for your time.