My computer makes a bunch of clicking noises. Especially when I leave it alone with the Internet on. Why?

Answer 1

Those clicks you are hearing are indicator sounds Internet Explorer provides to tell you each time a server is being contacted for something, and you can turn them off.

1. Click Start on your desktop and select Control Panel.

2. From this list, pick Sounds and Audio Devices (for Windows XP) or Sounds and Multimedia Properties (for Windows 2000). A dialog window opens.

3. From the tabs across the top, select Sounds.

4. Scroll down and you will find a category called Windows Explorer. The last item under this heading is Start Navigation. Click this to highlight it.

5. In the box just below this, called Sounds, open the pop-up menu and scroll to the top and choose (None).

6. Click the OK button to close the dialog window.

Answer 2

This noise is associated with the Microsoft Windows Sounds Events. Under Control Panel, Sounds, you can tell the computer to not make such noise. The click you hear is associated with the sound event called: Start Navigation. If you use Internet Explorer a lot, you will notice that you hear such clicks when you go back or forward between pages. It probably makes that noise because you let a certain page open, and that page over time reloads itself, thus creating the sound notification to play again. That is normal, and shouldn't worry about it. You can get rid of this sound notification by disabling it on the control panel, sounds.

Answer 3

It's possible that if you have a webpage open, the noise you are hearing is that page refreshing by itself (which some do)

Answer 4

It is your harddrive. When the internet is open, it constantly checks various things. It is nothing to be concerned with. It is normal.

Answer 5

may be many things including the hard drive going bad the best bet is take it to a pro