on 3/4/02 11:50 PM, Amber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am just wondering if anybody else has heard their iMac making a > clicking sound while their iMac is in sleep mode. It almost sounds like > a shorting out sound. > I am assuming it is normal as there seems to be nothing wrong with the > computer or the way it is working but just wondered what this > clicking/shorting out sound is ? > > Amber >
Hi Amber; I'm not sure what your clicking noise sounds like, however just a few months after I purchased my iMac it began making making a clicking type noise, also the light in the power button would flicker on and off at a very fast rate. The strange part was it did not happen all the time, only once in a while, all told I'd say it happened at least 10 times. I trashed the energy saver prefs and then called the nice folks at apple, who told me this was the first complaint about this type of problem; along with the energy saver prefs they wanted me to do a clean install of my system folder, and if that did not work they wanted me to take to an apple authorized service center for repair! I was to lazy to do a clean install; however trashing the energy saver preference file seemed to work, its only happened once since the problem started over one year ago! About six weeks ago I did a clean install and it hasn't occurred yet. I hope this is some help to you, I bought mine in February of 2001, when did you get yours? Good luck Mike -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
