does this happen even if your not accessing data on your data drive?
if so sounds like your boot drive
either way I'd bet money on it being faulty...
given the price of SATA drives is so low I would recommend replacing
which ever drive is faulty...
I mean the G5 Mac towers are still reasonably good machines (well at
least I hope they are as I'm just about to buy one as my "new" home
computer), and the smallest SATA 72000rpm drive I can see on our
suppliers site is 160GB for $88 inc gst I'd consider that a
reasonable expenditure to keep it running.
Well it looks like it may be time to upgrade, or is it Monday
morning G5 blues?
Remember a while back I posted a story about a continual clicking
noise that I thought may have been my CD/DVD drive?
well it's doing it again, and it is without a doubt coming from one
of the HD's (80Gb and 120Gb). It always produces ten
metallic clicks, then a 2 second space, followed by another 10 and
so on? and it keeps on going for say 10 mins and then
stops. During this time the multi-coloured 'don't talk to me now I'm
working on it' wheel, spins away. Any ideas? also all the fans
slowly start to power up and build into a crescendo of whirling
plastic blades.
It has just done it again, so I hit the power off button and
restarted. Now everything is working again, but the 'Mac OS X -
starting Mac OS X' window is still on screen, with the blue progress
line complete, even though I am writing this email?
Is all this familiar too you you have had an HD start to die on you?
any thoughts would be welcomed.
G5/1.6GHz/1.5Gb RAM/OSX 10.4.8/80 + 120 Gb internal HD's.
Thanks
Jon
Jon Davison
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