Weird noise comming from inside computer?

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hey Guys, i have a Sony Vaio computer and it was making this weird clicking/snapping noise inside. I do not know where it was comming from on the inside. Each time it did that, the computer would give me either a blue screen or black screen and reboot by itself. I reformatted it and im still have the same issue. Could it be anything other than the hard drive?

thanks for the help
 
If you have errors when you hear it, I'd suspect a failing hard drive. If this is the case, there's not too much you can do besides get a new one.
 
if not the hard drive, the only other thing i could think of it being (and theres only a remote chance of it happening) would be a wire that was hitting a fan and got the insulation worn off and then made contact with the motherboard causing a short circuit.
 
The clicking sound with swift restarts and a black screen strongly at the drive and not a short. A short to ground would more likely prevent the normal post process until a missing boot device error came up. Are you seeing any type of onscreen messages like that?
 
The fast BSOD seen followed by the black screen points at Windows failing to load from a bad read/write situation. You can't install drivers if Windows can't even load. If the system is still under warranty then bring it for service and drive replacement.
 
thank you very much for your helps. I really do think it is the drive, i had an issue like this before. I thought it might have been the fan hitting a wire but fan is clear of anything. Must be the drive because i had the same windows disc installed on my other computer and its running fine.
 
If you can get close enough to the case even with a side cover off without touching anything inside you can listen when you first press the power button and usually locate just where the sound is heard over the fans of course. But if you hear it from the lower front of the case where the drive bays are you know the rest already. A shorting wire would have sent up smoke signals probably by this time. Your description points at a bad drive. And I think you will find that The_Other_One's intial assessment was correct.
 
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