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Old 06-21-2007, 12:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: Computer making strange sound at startup...
Its the hard drive head. It sounds like click click or clack clack. This most likely means the hard drive is failing or maybe it's just doing a boot sequence and looking for files. If this never happened before, backup and wait till it dies.
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