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- MacPro Intel Core2Duo 4GB Ram
I have an Intel Core2Duo MacPro w/ 4GB of Ram +30" monitor. Sometimes when I do something that's kind of processor-heavy, it starts to scream--a kind of loud, high-pitched scream. There's nothing I can do to make is stop, and it's loud enough that others working in the cube-farm where I work come over and ask me (not very politely) to please make it stop.
This is NOT normal hard-drive noise. It is not the optical drive--it happens when there's no disk in the optical drive. Both of these were suggested to me by the Apple customer service rep, but I refuse to pay $50 to talk to them further if it's something I'm doing.
It happens most often when I'm doing something like scrolling an enlarged graphic in Photoshop. Yesterday, it did it while I was downloading a big file off my network server in the background and doing a spotlight search in the foreground (and it went on for a full 5 minutes AFTER I stopped both the download and the search while there were 5 people standing in my cube telling me to MAKE IT STOP!).
Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? Where do I even start to figure out the cause?
TIA!
This is NOT normal hard-drive noise. It is not the optical drive--it happens when there's no disk in the optical drive. Both of these were suggested to me by the Apple customer service rep, but I refuse to pay $50 to talk to them further if it's something I'm doing.
It happens most often when I'm doing something like scrolling an enlarged graphic in Photoshop. Yesterday, it did it while I was downloading a big file off my network server in the background and doing a spotlight search in the foreground (and it went on for a full 5 minutes AFTER I stopped both the download and the search while there were 5 people standing in my cube telling me to MAKE IT STOP!).
Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? Where do I even start to figure out the cause?
TIA!