Clicking noise

[Nothematic]

Hello,

My new desktop is producing a clicking noise whenever I turn it on. I believe it may be the hard drive because in the BIOS there is no hard drive detected and therefore it will not boot at all.

Help would be appreciated.

[tom_gr7]

hey

do you get a boot device cursor flashing? likes like a under score but flashes?

you say, the drive isnt in the bios. Have you clicked advanced?

[Nothematic]

When I stat it up I get a flashing underscore and then a page loads up where I can enter BIOS, select boot manager etc.

Upon entering BIOS I can see one SATA device, which is the CD drive. A few minutes ago I switched the cable over on the motherboard andit appeared in the BIOS, however when I restarted it again to try and load windows it disappeared again.

What do you mean by advanced?

[tom_gr7]

top right, you can click go advanced, they I think, "boot" have a look see if the drive is there.

then if not, try pluging the hard drive into a different port on the motherboard

[Nothematic]

It still isn't being displayed in the boot menu.

I just tried changing the mother board port one again and it still isn't beng detected. I'm going t try phoning support on Monday.

[tom_gr7]

damm,

yeah call support on monday mate.

try a different cable mate. there should be spares in ya welcome pack

[Buzz]

Can you open the side of your case and place the HDD on the very bottom still plugged in, so you can see it, then turn machine on and listen closely to the drive. If the drive is ticking then it would suggest the spindle is stuck and you would need to get new HDD.