The darndest thing. My desktop won’t start. The CD-ROM and drive lights flash repeatedly (they have power) and there is this rhythmic clicking. It goes for awhile and then stops and then restarts.
I popped the top and cleaned all the fans and was surprised to discover that the clicking was coming from the NVidia TI-4600 card near its fan. The fan appears to move in both directions when I blow canned air at it. But none of the system’s fans spins as they should when I try to start it. The box was working last night. I normally run it continuously but had to shut it off last night due to a neighborhood power outage for some repair work..
I ordered a power supply for it this morning. It has a D845EBG2 Intel mobo so it uses an ATX12V 1.2 power supply. Not sure if the power supply is the problem but that was my first suspect for this old computer. I need to get it running to transfer some data and retrieve some application serial numbers. So I have to actually run the apps to get the serials.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Bree
