Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Greetings, my name is Ken, and I am from Manchester, UK. I have been fixing laptops for a while, but nowadays only really do it for my self or close friends.

I started in computers by buying and fixing an SC80, a Z80 computer designed by a chap called John Adams. It ran a language called BURP, (Basic Using Reverse Polish notation ), and developed to have a couple of floppy drives. I then built the SC84, a Z80 CP/M machine, again designed by John Adams, then followed a range of various machines, anyone remember...

Re: Tik tik tik sound from motherboard

Greetings,

Might it be a wire wound inductor with the power rail rising and then falling sharply due maybe to an overload ?. An inductor is really the only mechanical thing on a motherboard that could make a sound, unless something is shorted and about to blow.

Another thing that goes tick, tick, tick is a failed toshiba hard drive. Mine died 2 days ago, no warning, just started ticking and that was it.

Backups ?, eh no, I was just going to do that !.

Ken