Hi Listers,
I have enjoyed lurking for the past few weeks and following the
informed discussion that goes on here.
I have a problem with my G4 iBook that I haven't seen discussed yet.
This October the hard-drive started to make a sound that makes me
think that the head has gone into an endless loop because it can't
find a sector. The drive just makes this non-ending swoop, swoop,
swoop sound and the machine freezes. The drive has always been loud,
and it makes this sound whenever it is active, but it usually only
persists for a few seconds. When the hard-drive makes this continuous
"seek" sound, all I can do is shut down the computer and wait for a
while before rebooting. This happens every time I use the computer
now. Sometimes it takes hours before this situation develops, other
times just minutes.
The drive is the original 30 GB (Apple's measurements, really 28 MB)
Toshiba. It is a SMART drive and does not report any problems. I
first suspected that the problem was overheating, but the temperature
monitor software (by Marcel Bresink) that I installed shows that the
hard-drive would stop responding at temperatures anywhere between 33
and 54 degrees Celsius, so I assume that it's not temperature related.
The only other thing that I can think of that might have something to
do with the problem is that in October I started using a Hawking USB
wireless dongle so I could surf the Internet from the couch. Until
then the computer had always been plugged into the wall (and ethernet
to the Internet) when being used.
My question: does anyone know what is going on? And, if the hard
drive needs replacing, is it difficult to open the machine to do the
replacement? (I have replaced drives in two previous G3 iBooks when
they died-much different deaths, just giving up the ghost in typical
hard-drive death scenarios.)
Specifications of the computer:
12" G4 iBook (from January 2004, I think)
OS: 10.3.9
CPU: 800 MHz
L2 Cache: 256 MB
Bus: 133 MHz
Boot ROM: 4.7.7f0
640 MB DDR SDRAM
Hard-drive: ATA Toshiba MK3021GAS
27.94 GB Journaled HFS+
Thank you very much for any help and comments.
Mike
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