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- Jan 19, 2007
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- Burbank, CA
- Your Mac's Specs
- Power Mac G5, 1.8 GHz / 152 GB & 232 GB & 4 x Lacie 500 GB external / 3.5 GB RAM / OSX 10.4.10
For the last year or so, my G5 has been making some worrisome noises. The hard-drive occasionally clacks and whirrs like an old electrical relay, causing my system to freeze up, and sometimes locking up entirely, requiring me to either Force Quit my applications, or reboot entirely by pressing the main power button. I have a few weeks left on my extended warranty, so I am taking my G5 to my local Apple store tomorrow, having backed up all I can.
Apart from this, my G5 has been perfect. It's been my workhorse as a writer (currently using 95.2 GB of a 152.6 GB hard-drive), and for my DV movie-making endeavors (using 231.1 GB of a secondary 232.7 GB hard-drive installed in the machine), and 3.5 GB RAM. I've procrastinated dealing with this problem until now, because I've never had the time, but I have to address this now before it's too late.
Any ideas what this might be?
To illustrate the problem -- specifically the alarming mechanical sounds -- I put a short movie of it misbehaving on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSKX0bI2EE
Any advice, or observations, would be greatly appreciated.
Apart from this, my G5 has been perfect. It's been my workhorse as a writer (currently using 95.2 GB of a 152.6 GB hard-drive), and for my DV movie-making endeavors (using 231.1 GB of a secondary 232.7 GB hard-drive installed in the machine), and 3.5 GB RAM. I've procrastinated dealing with this problem until now, because I've never had the time, but I have to address this now before it's too late.
Any ideas what this might be?
To illustrate the problem -- specifically the alarming mechanical sounds -- I put a short movie of it misbehaving on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSKX0bI2EE
Any advice, or observations, would be greatly appreciated.