alright i have a ibook g4 and i have been using a program called sleepless to keep it form falling asleep as i downloaded overnight. i had the screen open all the way however. well one morning i woke up and it was making very loud noises and was frozen. so i crashed it and when id try to start it up it would make the horrible noises again and show the folder with the question mark in it. i tried everything and my only answer was to reinstall my os which i did. it worked for awhile and then happened again. instead this time it stalled at the loading login window part of startup. i've recently realized taht if i leave it for a day or so and start it up it works for awile while making hard "thinking" noises.
my question is
is this the harddrive or possibly a logic board
i don't want to pay for someone to look at it.
it makes the noises when loading stuff and then i have to wait for the wheel to stop spinning before it lets me do anything else.
thank you very much and all help is greatly appreciated
**forgot to add i have repaired disk permissions and the disk...i have tried all repairs it seems like something is getting overheated and thats what causes it to have problems. i am able to use the computer but after about 10 minutes, it gets the spinning noises and takes longer.
my question is
is this the harddrive or possibly a logic board
i don't want to pay for someone to look at it.
it makes the noises when loading stuff and then i have to wait for the wheel to stop spinning before it lets me do anything else.
thank you very much and all help is greatly appreciated
**forgot to add i have repaired disk permissions and the disk...i have tried all repairs it seems like something is getting overheated and thats what causes it to have problems. i am able to use the computer but after about 10 minutes, it gets the spinning noises and takes longer.