Clicking sound coming from my PC...

[Shodan]

If you visit this forum frequently, you might recognise me and yes, I bought the GTX 1660 Ti. It's fantastic and it works flawlessly. Surprisingly, my PC has another problem other than the dead GTX 970 and this time it's a weird clicking sound.

When I swapped my GTX 970 with the GTX 1660 Ti, I haven't touched anything, all I did was swap the graphics cards and nothing went wrong in the process. My PC was cold and completely quiet while gaming, but I left it on the desktop for around 15 minutes with no programs running in the background and I noticed a clicking sound.

The red LED light next to the power button on my PC case is constantly blinking and from what I know, that stands for high hard drive usage. I made sure that nothing is wrong with my GPU because I was monitoring its usage all the time. The temperature is perfect and its usage is minimal.

Task manager constantly shows 10-20% CPU usage and I guess that's normal because there are a lot of system services, whatever. The temperature is normal as well and the whole PC is cold.

Now, the interesting thing is that task manager shows 0% disk usage, yet I constantly hear this clicking sound and the LED light is blinking. The sound reminds me of popcorn in a microwave, though it's nowhere near as loud, of course, but that's how it sounds. Another reason why I think that it could be one of my hard drives is because they usually tend to do that.

Anyway, I just want to make this stupid thing shut up already. When my GTX 970 died yesterday, I had to unplug everything from the PC (my cables are a total mess) which took a while, then I had to carry it upstairs, bring my old PC downstairs, plug everything back in and set it up. That took around 3 hours. Today I had to go buy the GTX 1660 Ti, bring my PC downstairs, open it up, swap the graphics cards and clean it (there wasn't a lot of dust and that didn't cause any problems), then again, unplug everything from my old PC, carry it upstairs, clean everything around my PC desk (took over an hour since there was a ton of dust) and finally, plug everything back into the PC that I'm using right now.

To keep it simple, in the last 2 days I spent around 8 hours doing the exact same stupid thing all over again and I honestly can't be bothered to do it yet again. Is there any simple way for me to silence whatever hard drive is causing this? Right now, I wouldn't open up my PC again even if it was about to set on fire and burn my entire house down because my room is tight and it takes ages to move the entire desk away from the wall, get through all the cables and so on.

Thanks in advance.

[ugafan]

Publicado originalmente por unturorum:

Is there any simple way for me to silence whatever hard drive is causing this?

unplug it.

[OLDMAN🎅]

fan

[Carlsberg]

If the hard drive is constantly being accessed try to determine why, whats running. swap file? how much ram you have? background task, virus? New software that installed with the new gpu?

[Shodan]

Publicado originalmente por Carlsberg:

If the hard drive is constantly being accessed try to determine why, whats running. swap file? how much ram you have? background task, virus? New software that installed with the new gpu?

16 GB of RAM, task manager shows 0% usage, nothing aside from system processes should be running, no malware and no special GPU software, just the official Nvidia driver.

[Carlsberg]

In task manager under performance tab
click on resource button near bottom
select the disk tab and show all processes with disk activity.

that will show you whats running and using hd.

[UTFapolloMarine]

be sure that nothing is in any of your fans, or any wires or access hardware isnt sitting on the fan just throbbing back and fourth if not? possibly some type of fan causing the sound due to a shortage, id imagine the psu or the gpu

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Could a fan.
Case fan or gpu fan cpu fan out of balance.
Possibly build up of dust on fans.
My case fans can make a ticking sound when too much builds up them.