the squeaky vibrater...

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digital disastadigital disasta
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
My Mac Pro Tower makes this vibrating noise when my second 500 gig hdd spins up. It will keep making the noise until I move my tower a little bit, and it will stop for a few minutes. It has to do with something with my hdd, but I don't know what it could be. I opened up the tower (dirty as hell), and I started looking around, but I don't know what could be causing the problem. Any ideas? Also, what can I use to clean the inside of the tower? It was nasty in there.

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    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Take a bucket of soapy water, and... okay, don't.



    Shut off the power, unplug from wall. Open case, attach a static wrist strap to you and the computer, then use a can of compressed air to knock all the dust off and out. Preferably, do this outside.



    As for the noise... could be just a loose screw on the drive mount letting it wobble a bit.
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    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    If you mount your drives onto foam gasket, it will reduce the noise. This is something I do anyway, and also do for fans.



    Foam gasket is available, cheap, at any hardware store.
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    digital disastadigital disasta Posts: 495member
    I'll try the foam gasket I guess, IDK I just hope my HDD doesn't crap out for no reason in the near future :/ I have too much stuff on there already
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    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    That's what backups are for.
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