[ChrisOD94]

Please help...my computer was working fine this weekend...I put it on standby and when I returned several hours later, I found it off. I tried to reboot it, but nothing shows up on the screen and I hear a loud cliclking sound that seems to be coming from the CD Drive. It looks like it's trying to start up, but in this loop that doesn't allow it. Any ideas....?!

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unplug the machine...open up the case..ground yourself...and pull the wide flat cable out of the cdrom drive...also pull the power cable from the drive....does the system start now?

[dsenette]

unplug the machine...open up the case..ground yourself...and pull the wide flat cable out of the cdrom drive...also pull the power cable from the drive....does the system start now?

[ChrisOD94]

I unhooked both the CD unit and the power source, but I still get the clicking sound, and it still doesn't boot up.....

[dsenette]

then the clicking isn't coming from the cdrom...can you locate the clicking?

[ChrisOD94]

I don't know that I can locate it exactly....looks like something in the back is lighting up in synch with the clicking.....