Computer Shake

Over the past week, I've been fairly busy getting all of my files off of my hard drive, because I decided it was time to reformat and do a fresh install of OS X. Over time the computer has just gotten too bogged down, and I've been wanting a fresh start.

Earlier, I went to save a picture in Adobe Lightroom, and all of a sudden my computer started shaking. It felt like it was coming from directly under my right palm, where the slot drive is. It almost felt like the computer had the vibrating function of a cell phone, or something along those lines.

I immediately pulled up disk utility, and the hard drive's SMART status reads ok.

Any ideas? Should I be concerned?

(1.67Ghz Powerbook G4)

Was there a CD/DVD in the Slot load drive?

dtravis7 said:

Was there a CD/DVD in the Slot load drive?

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Yes, a CD loaded with audio files. It was not being accessed at the time, however.

Reason I asked is sometimes out of the blue when my iMac is doing something all the drives access from my external Zip to my External FW and my Optical and when it does you can feel it. Same on the ibook.