Have you considered that you might have a stuck key on your keyboard
or a defective keyboard.
unplug the keyboard and boot up and see if you still get the noise.
could also be a defective mouse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce E" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 2007-06-14 06:30 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] With a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat
> ... my computer seems to be failing. It is an eMachines, running
> Windows XP, SP2, with 700-odd meg of additional RAM. Sorry, but I
> couldn't find this failure in the archives.
>
> The symptoms are, when I start to power up I get a rapid-fire knocking
> or clicking sound through the speakers. Then if I try to close a
> program that's in my boot menu, the system chatters and the command
> flits by too quickly to click on it -- and keeps on doing that.
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