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First off, thanks for all your quick replies.
I'm completeley dumb to the hardware of a compute, but I've certinly narrowed the problem down (at least with thyis clicking noise: It certainly is not coming from CD or DVD drives or, it seems, from the Hard Drive. But this is where I come unstuck (or stuck, to put it more bluntly), The noise is coming from, it seems, behind the power on/off button (including HD light flashing with perfectly timed keyboard NUM/CAPS/SCROLL buttons flashing. Now, if I'm right these three keyboard lights come on for a short time during start up as well as the HD light going through it's motions. Could this be a simple matter of a defective switch I wonder as postulated by Flanzig1? (of course that could be wishful thinking)
You need to run the HD makers diagnostic utility to check the health of the HD.
You see, these are the sort of things I just don't understand, how do I run anything when the thing don't work? Sorry if this sounds weak and rather dumb but I'm really slow on this kind of stuff and really need to understand it better.
Charles Babbage......now there was a man whose stuff you could actually see working.
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