Motherboard speaker Ticks like a clock

[Stonesoldier]

a friend just gave me his OLD comp for parts
its an E Machine T2642 2.6 celery with 256ddr2100 ,40 gig HDD
on board everything vid /sound / lan / ect ect

anyway
he told me it just died one day and he bout a NEW cheap comp for like $300

anyway it TICKS like a damm clock
NOT the drive
not the CD
not any of the fans

the teeny tiny motherboard speaker TICKS tick tick tick tick tick tick :clock:

used a known good power supply on it
pulled MB from chassis
pullled CPU /Mem /pci cards
Hell only thing hooked up is the damm PS
and it still ticks like a freakin clock :clock:

no burn marks
no leaky / bulged caps

any ideas on what this is ?

and YES i know the MB is BAD
but what the hell is makin it tick just weird

 

[daveybrat]

It's just electrical feedback you're hearing through the speaker because the motherboard has a short in it. I've heard that tick on a lot of older systems with bad boards.

 

[daveybrat]

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Here's a cheap motherboard that will fit that processor and emachine case just fine as a replacement. I've used them many times and have great success with them.

 

[Stonesoldier]

thanks for the new MB idea

also if i replace the MB in that thing will the restore disks work correctly since MB will have been changed

or do i need to extract the OS from the disks ( XP Home)
if so how to do it ?