Computer died.

Gold is for high end pc and people with the some extra money lieing around for your average use a 600 w bronze or silver semi modular psu is the best bang for your buck

Ragnarok of the Rage

The flashing light means the cpu has devolved from the use of binary to morse code, pls find a morse code compatible mother board. ^_^

D

Good summary. When buying a new PSU, its worth it investing into at least a Gold psu, than anything below, and a modular or semi one.

crue

You are incorrect if it is a cpu fan malfunction the cpu will overheat before it gets to the OS. Normal exhaust fans will take time to build up heat butt the cpu fan is critical

Brandon Anderson

Usually, when it's a CPU issue there's bleeps and/or flashing lights, so I doubt it's the CPU. The clicking sound points to it being a power supply issue, however I've had a PC making clicking sounds before when my motherboard fried, so there is that. It's absolutely not an HDD issue as the PC would, at the very least, boot the BIOS, though it's still a candidate I suppose, since hard drives are one of the most common parts to make clicking noises when they're about to die and I can't see it as being a RAM problem as most PCs usually have more than one, though honestly, I don't have enough experience to judge whether it IS a RAM problem. It's also very unlikely it's a fan issue since it'd at least turn on. Do check if you have a Gigabyte motherboard, after doing some digging I can see a fair few examples of them clicking before dying. To address some of the other comments, the motherboard absolutely can click, it happens when a wire is shorted or there's an open circuit, it's the sound of an electrical discharge. To summarize, check the PSU, motherboard and HDD (make sure you even HAVE an HDD first, an SSD would make no noises at all). Isolating the clicking noise ought to be your first priority, so you know what's clicking, don't worry about opening up your PC tower, it's extremely unlikely you'll mess something up just from that, but open up a youtube video if you're feeling squeamish about it. I am, of course, assuming you have a desktop and not a laptop. DO try and wear some insulating gloves juuust in case it is the motherboard, but while you should be looking in the PC to find out what's wrong when it's on, I don't recommend touching it even when it's working fine. Anw, if you can't absolutely make out what's wrong, you can disconnect the wire connecting the HDD to discount it from the equation of what's wrong. Hope it's the PSU, much easier to replace than the motherboard and about as expensive (maybe a little cheaper).

megahellreaper

I doubt it. The pc would turn on if thats the case. Because it takes tome time to warm up before it trips for overheating. A lot of pc builders even do this before installing the cooler to quickly check if everything is alright before finishing the build X)

Hello 1939539es

Did you try to turn in off and on again?!

Hello 1939539es

Sprinkle some holy water on it maybe its possessed

Lohis

A cpu fan is actually a pretty easy fix the fan itself can cost between 7-30$ (they are pretty cheap) and you just pop the old one off pop the new one on and make sure it's plugged in. If you go to a PC repair place don't spend over 80 (3x the value of the part is adv for cheap parts)

Brandon Anderson

So a clicking g noise means a moving part. You are looking at a fan or the had drive. Considering the cpu light goes on it is probably overheating meani g the cpu fan is having g issues.

Brandon Anderson

Open the panel and look at the motherboard. There ought to be a set of codes showing up, most likely in red. That will tell you where it is in the boot process. It is most likely betting stuck on a 2-digit code like "BA" "AA" "1F", etc. If you find that out, it may help. That can let us know if your PC is stuck in memory training, HDD initialization, CPU failure, etc.

Dragonkinn

Afraid I'm no pc wiz, I can manage some things but best I can say is pretty much what others above me have already posted. Hope things come around smoothly and most of all without any expensive sudden surprise expenditures.

Straven

Good luck no two computers are the same.

TheDaemonCatJr

Cpu light usually means cpu power issue or fan issue. Given that there are audible clicking sounds, it seems like a fan issue. You could try reseating the 24 pin motherboard power connector, 8 pin cpu power, and the fan headers. Unfortunately, without more information, it's difficult to provide more probable diagnostics.