Power ON/OFF computer - click sound with red light?

Greetings,
when I power ON my Mac Pro, a small red light blips inside my computer and there's some sort of "click" sound, it is as if I unplug an active device from a power outlet. The same thing happens when I power OFF my Mac Pro. Is that normal?

Wow that's strange, I just had the same thing after disassembling my MacPro to clean the CPU heat sinks.
Is the red light on one of the RAM riser cards, if it is there a 4 red LEDs that correspond to the RAM slots on the card. If either LED 1 or 2 are blinking, try reseating the inner pair of RAM chips, if LED 3 or 4 are blinking try reseating the outer pair on that card.
If that does not work try removing the pair in question, but be sure to leave the remaining pair in the inner 2 slots. You may have had a RAM chip go bad.
Hopefully this helps.
- Jay

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