Re: Motherboard speaker -clicking-

The NIC is a 3com 905 PCI Card. Not sure about the motherboard. It's from a Gateway machine, P3-933. I don't have it in front of me here at work, but I'm pretty sure it is a GATEWAY BROOKINGS MS-6312 FLEX ATX BOARD, MS-6312 (going by google and specs).

I don't remember it making the sound immediately after replacing the caps, so I might have damaged them removing from that dead board. I'll put together a cap shopping list.

edit: While googling this board to find replacement costs, the SECOND! link was back to badcaps.net....

Re: Motherboard speaker -clicking-

No. It was one of those micro-speakers soldered directly to the board, but I removed it to check (and to keep sane). If it was my machine it would be problem solved. I finally thought of a better way to describe the sound: it's exactly like one of the old quantum bigfoot hard drives doing a defrag.

Re: Motherboard speaker -clicking-

I'm sure it's not software. Even with all drives disconnected it will start the clicking. The funny part is that the clicking is directly affected by what the computer is doing. It's silent for the POST, then as soon as the boot process starts so does the clicking. During the network boot attempt (when drives are disconnected) it stops for several seconds, but when the network boot fails it starts again.

Thanks for the advice!

I replaced a couple of damaged caps, and now the onboard speaker clicks constantly. Swapping the PS made no difference. Do I have more caps toasted, or is something else going on?

Long story:

I was doing some spyware cleanup for a friend who had been having some lockup problems. It also seemed to blank and die when not actively used (even after disabling all power management I could find in OS and BIOS).

The cleanup went fine, but when I went to turn the machine on again after being away for a few days it wouldn't post at all. I reset the bios, unplugged...