Vibrating Mac

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trick falltrick fall
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Something inside my Mac is vibrating and driving me crazy. I can't figure out what's causing it. It doesn't seem to be the fan, any of the drives, or anything really. It doesn't always do it and if I power down and restart it will sometimes go away. Oh, it's a G4 450 tower.

Thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    allinoneallinone Posts: 279member
    [quote]Originally posted by trick fall:

    <strong>Something inside my Mac is vibrating and driving me crazy. I can't figure out what's causing it. It doesn't seem to be the fan, any of the drives, or anything really. It doesn't always do it and if I power down and restart it will sometimes go away. Oh, it's a G4 450 tower.

    Thanks</strong><hr></blockquote>



    You sure it's not an iMac?



    <a href="http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/7/new_macs.html"; target="_blank">http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/7/new_macs.html</a>;







    How did you eliminate the drive and the fans? They are the only moving parts. What else could possibly be vibrating?
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    My guess is that you've got <a href="http://www.sleeplessknights.com/Pages/itheater.html"; target="_blank">one of these</a> in your system that may be causing the symptoms you described.
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    evil edevil ed Posts: 106member
    LoL!



    i immediately thought of the iBrator too, LoL!
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    A lot of help these guys are eh trick fall.



    Does it do it when you've got a CD in it? I've noticed some G4s around here that do that when they spin up a CD.
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    [quote]Originally posted by trick fall:

    <strong>Something inside my Mac is vibrating and driving me crazy. I can't figure out what's causing it. It doesn't seem to be the fan, any of the drives, or anything really. It doesn't always do it and if I power down and restart it will sometimes go away. Oh, it's a G4 450 tower.

    Thanks</strong><hr></blockquote>



    You sure you haven't hooked your monitor up to the washing machine?
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by seb:

    <strong>A lot of help these guys are eh trick fall. </strong><hr></blockquote>Well, he did say he'd eliminated the fans and drives... what else could it be? Is his Mac so powerful that the all the electrons moving in it are causing it so shake?



    seb is right about the CD-ROM, though. I can sometimes hear a slight buzz from my tower when CD's aren't spinning at full speed.
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    trick falltrick fall Posts: 1,271member
    Very funny guys, at least you made me laugh. No Seb, no it's not the cd rom.
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