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Am hesitant to provide assessment as don't know if you're getting your info
second-hand, or are actually seeing the symptoms.  IE are there more
symptoms...

A "dead" PC, that will turn on again sometime, may be due to power or heat.
A HD that makes more noise than usual is symptomatic of both.  The key
factor in determining which is the problem is consistency and how long after
the computer is on does this happen.

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"OzzyFrank" <ozzyfrank@goconnect.net.au> wrote in message
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> A friend is having what I presume is a power supply problem. While working
> on the PC, she hears a click then the PC goes dead. Since she is always
> online, she rang her ISP who told her it was the hard drive. I know faulty
> hard drives can make clicking noises, but usually more than one, and at
> boot, and it usually means you can't use the drive any more, or much
longer
> if it is intermittent. And they usually don't shut the power off on the
> whole PC.
>
> Am i right in assuming it is the power supply?
>
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"OzzyFrank" <ozzyfrank@goconnect.net.au> wrote in message
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> A friend is having what I presume is a power supply problem. While working
> on the PC, she hears a click then the PC goes dead. Since she is always
> online, she rang her ISP who told her it was the hard drive. I know faulty
> hard drives can make clicking noises, but usually more than one, and at
> boot, and it usually means you can't use the drive any more, or much
longer
> if it is intermittent. And they usually don't shut the power off on the
> whole PC.
> Am i right in assuming it is the power supply?

It's possible but it could also be the motherboard, a short somewhere, etc.
I recommend
removing all cards except video, disconnect all power and data cables from
drives and
all LED/case switch wires except the one for power to see what happens.

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