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Originally Posted by queasy27
I apologize if this is an unanswerable question, but my laptop (that I love and am trying to keep running as long as possible) has started making four clicking noises when booting up. It doesn't make them if already running and I restart.
The noise doesn't seem to be deleterious so far since everything works fine but I'm a little concerned that it's a harbinger of Bad Things To Come. I'm wondering if it would be useful to take it in for repair and have them look under the hood to see if something is scraping or out of whack inside.
Or just leave well enough alone?
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A clicking hard drive is going to go very, very soon back up while you can.
A clicking fan blade is also a problem. If the fan stops and the CPU overheats that everything will just stop and there goes the computer.
How old is the laptop? What is the make and model number?