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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