Clicking Noise From Motherboard Speaker

[Crazylukas33]

Ok so I recently built a pc from parts that I purchased online. I was able to successfully construct the pc and get it to run. Up until today, it was working perfectly. I turned on my pc, and the monitor screen was blank and the motherboard speaker began to make short clicking noises. To try and find the problem myself, I did the simplest things I could think of. I reseated the cpu cooler, reseated the gpu and ram cards, replaced the battery on my mobo with a new one, unplugged my optical drives and hard drives, and plugged out and plugged back in pretty much every single cable in the pc. Nothing has worked. I still get the blank screen on boot and the mobo speaker clicks. What I find most odd though is that all my fans are running except my front intake fan. It's normally supposed to be running and has red LED's, but it turns on, and turns back off. All other fans are working. I checked to make sure the fan was plugged in and it was. Long story short, my pc doesn't boot up and has a blank screen while my motherboard speaker makes clicking noises. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
My pc specs:
Corei5 4670s
Nvidia geforce gtx 960 ssc 4 gb gddr5
16 gb corsair vengeance RAM
Seagate barracuda 1 tb had
Intel 100 gb ssd
Corsair cx600m psu
Gigabyte Z97m D3h mobo

 

[Shaun o]

Well done you located the problem. Did you disconnect the fan that was found not to be spinning or lighting up it`s leds of the fan.

If it is connected to the motherboard via a fan header connection of the board remove it.
All motherboards detect when a component fails, it will consider the fan as a short circuit of the motherboard.
What happens then is the board signals the PSU to enable it`s short circuit protection mode. Or the Psu it`s self detects a power problem and enables one of it`s power protection circuits as a safe guard to protect the rest of your components of your pc from any more damage or a potential fire hazard.

That prevents full power of the PSU from being able to boot the motherboard on power up.

So as a test. Disconnect the fan that is not working via the motherboard fan header or if the fan uses a molex power connector straight of your Psu disconnect the fan from that power point.

Ok.
Now what you need to do is look on the back of your tower and the back of the PSU it`s self.
You will see a rocker switch, flick it to it`s off state.

Got to the wall socket where the power cable from the Psu has it`s plug end.
Take the plug out of the wall socket for about ten seconds, then plug it back into your wall socket.

Flick the rocker switch back to it`s normal position for power of the PSU.
Then press the power button on the tower.
This performs a reset of all the power protection circuits you corsair cx660m Psu internal to it.
And should allow the system to post or power up in the correct manner.

If it does not work, please post back and let me know.
And we will have to go through another check list, to find the cause, or what is preventing your system from fully powering up and displaying an output image from your graphics card to the monitor.

On small note: if the ticking is at regular timing and intervals, it can relate to a problem with the hard drive you have in your system.
It is often a sign that the drive has failed and has a power problem.
Once again if you disconnect the power to it and the system powers up right, it is confirmation that the hard drive is a fault causing the problem of your system not fully powering up, it will, just like the fan count it as a short circuit.
But also confirms that the power protection circuit of the PSU has been tripped due to the physical hard drive drive failing.

In your case both the fan use the 12v power rail of the PSU. so it points to the 12v power rail of the PSU having it`s short circuit tripped or activated.
And may need resetting after you remove the problem part from your system to let it power up properly.

 

[Crazylukas33]

Well done you located the problem. Did you disconnect the fan that was found not to be spinning or lighting up it`s leds of the fan.

If it is connected to the motherboard via a fan header connection of the board remove it.
All motherboards detect when a component fails, it will consider the fan as a short circuit of the motherboard.
What happens then is the board signals the PSU to enable it`s short circuit protection mode. Or the Psu it`s self detects a power problem and enables one of it`s power protection circuits as a safe guard to protect the rest of your components of your pc from any more damage or a potential fire hazard.

That prevents full power of the PSU from being able to boot the motherboard on power up.

So as a test. Disconnect the fan that is not working via the motherboard fan header or if the fan uses a molex power connector straight of your Psu disconnect the fan from that power point.

Ok.
Now what you need to do is look on the back of your tower and the back of the PSU it`s self.
You will see a rocker switch, flick it to it`s off state.

Got to the wall socket where the power cable from the Psu has it`s plug end.
Take the plug out of the wall socket for about ten seconds, then plug it back into your wall socket.

Flick the rocker switch back to it`s normal position for power of the PSU.
Then press the power button on the tower.
This performs a reset of all the power protection circuits you corsair cx660m Psu internal to it.
And should allow the system to post or power up in the correct manner.

If it does not work, please post back and let me know.
And we will have to go through another check list, to find the cause, or what is preventing your system from fully powering up and displaying an output image from your graphics card to the monitor.

On small note: if the ticking is at regular timing and intervals, it can relate to a problem with the hard drive you have in your system.
It is often a sign that the drive has failed and has a power problem.
Once again if you disconnect the power to it and the system powers up right, it is confirmation that the hard drive is a fault causing the problem of your system not fully powering up, it will, just like the fan count it as a short circuit.
But also confirms that the power protection circuit of the PSU has been tripped due to the physical hard drive drive failing.

In your case both the fan use the 12v power rail of the PSU. so it points to the 12v power rail of the PSU having it`s short circuit tripped or activated.
And may need resetting after you remove the problem part from your system to let it power up properly.

This is my first time replying to a post on here but thank you for the reply! Alright so I did as you suggested and the clicking still does not stop and the pc does not boot properly. When you said to switch the Psu off, did you mean to switch it off when the pc was running? I switched off the Psu and did the reset while the pc was not running. This is my first build after all and I'm not sure what would harm my system and what wouldn't. Thank you again for helping me on this!