I swapped out my motherboard recently and everything booted up properly, however, the next time and ever since my computer clicks at least 3 times before booting. While clicking, I notice the power button light doesn’t turn on, but it’ll work as normal once the computer boots.
Once on, the computer works as normal and can play games like Baldur’s Gate and Starfield. However, I’m just concerned about the PSU or something catastrophic happening to my computer in the long run. The computer would only click once prior to me turning on the computer with my old motherboard (but it had other issues which is why I swapped it out). Is this something I should be concerned about?
Thank you!
Specs:
Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix B550-I Gaming
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
PSU: Corsair SF750
RAM: Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600 MHz DDR4 DRAM 16GB
An obstructed fan and an HDD are the only two things that can cause a clicking noise in a PC. Check if there are wires obstructing your case fans, and your CPU fan. If you have a hard disk drive, check if the noise is coming from there, if so, I suggest you move everything in that drive to another drive asap, if you can still access it.
So I think I figured it out. I unplugged my webcam that was plugged into my BIOS flashback port (which didn’t work anyway), and that seemed to fix the issue.
The startup is still a bit delayed, but no more clicking. I never pressed the flashback button, but I guess just having something plugged in messed with the booting process. Hopefully it stays this way.