Could be the HD turning over, got the same thing with my ACER system, bloody
annoying when your in a quiet room.

Haven't worked out if it just the norm or the HD's on its way out, but its
been doing it since I bought it about 5 months ago.

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Gerry (The MOTH)
"smythe" <emailsmythe******.com> wrote in message
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> My friend recently got a new laptop, Gateway laptop with AMD 64 turion
> processor, not sure which hard drive.
>
> There is this annoying clicking sound coming from the laptop.
>
> Here are some attributes of the sound:
>
> 1) It seems to be the same sound as the "Windows Explorer navigation"
> sound that you can set in sounds from the control panel. I did try
> setting this to "None", but this did not resolve the issue.
>
> 2) The sound occurs intermittently even if there is no user on the
> laptop, if it is just sitting on the counter, you will be able to hear
> the clicking as if someone was clicking on web links in Internet
> Explorer.
>
> I have read multiple posts in an attempt to find someone who has
> experienced this. The only thing I found is that some people believe
> it could be related to "spyware".
>
> Does anyone know what could cause this? A virus? spyware? hard drive
> problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
>