October has really been a bad month.. now laptop issues? Question.

[jennielynn1970]

So the laptop doesn't start at all, and it makes a clicking kind of sound?

When mine was doing that this summer, the hard drive had crashed. It happened very quickly. All I can say is it sounded like there was a spinning and clicking along with it.

I have a Mac, but because my Mac wasn't "factory", and had a hard drive other than an Apple drive, the Apple store wouldn't touch it.

I actually took it to Staples, and they were great, and have very inexpensive support. I bought a new hard drive, and they installed it and helped me reinstall the OS, and it was only $30 or $35. And it was guaranteed.

The Apple store would have wanted an arm and a leg as payment.

[CountryWolf07]

No no, I can start my laptop with no problems, no clicking at all. The clicking part comes later, usually an hour or so, or even sometimes 3 hours later.....

[Karen]

Okay, probably a fan, but do have the "good hearing" guy help this weekend!

[lvpets2002]

I agree its prob just the fan inside.. That can be replaced.. I dont think its very costly..

[Sonia59]

We had this on a computer that was over-heating after some time. Indeed, it was a fan.