Um......weirdest thing just happened...

tigerwoods99 · December 27, 2001 6:40PM

Ok about a minute ago something very disturbing happened. I'm sitting here reading a thread and my machine starts sounding like there's a chain saw inside.......exactly like a chain saw while it was loading......and VERY LOUD. I almost unplugged it cause I thought "That doesn't sound too good". It's stopped and seems alright now, but this machine has been so problematic ever since the start. It's a beige G3 that constantly crashes, won't run programs properly, and feels like a 604e. This is really getting to me. I was quitting Sim City 3000 and the f*cker just froze up like that.

I really need a new computer. The G5 would make a perfect birthday present for me.

tigerwoods99 · December 27, 2001 6:50PM

Holy sh*t it's doing it again.......

jambo · December 27, 2001 6:52PM

Maybe the tiny little mice who work the processor have decided to break free using a tiny little chainsaw!!

Aaaarrrrgghhhhh!!!!!!! Attack of the G3 mice!!!!!!!

tigerwoods99 · December 27, 2001 6:56PM

This is not funny.

Doing it again......for extended periods this time. I called my dad in here to witness it and he heard the thing buzzing loudly. Guess what. He doesn't care. He just basically doesn't care. I'm so glad I'll be leaving this house soon.

whee · December 27, 2001 7:00PM

Could it possibly be a dying fan? Old fans sometimes come off the bearings slightly and start to wobble, making nifty chainsawesque sounds.

tigerwoods99 · December 27, 2001 7:05PM

I'll check for that. I really this computer is beyond help though. It's depressing.

wrong robot · December 27, 2001 7:38PM

My iMac DVSE has the faintest smell of burning plastic, put upon deep inspection there is nothing melting or burning, my iMac would appear to the naked eye to be dying beyond, BUT the computer is still very very very functional....and if you want it tigerwoods...I'm selling it, I don't think your interested but in case you are

email me

[email protected]

robo · December 27, 2001 9:19PM

Could be a dying hard drive. I would back up any important files RIGHT NOW!

If your HD has a head crash, your data is gone forever (barring a $7000 retrieval job).

-robo

sledgehammer · December 27, 2001 9:38PM

I have an old PM 7200 that we have basically kept only 'cause it has 2.5 gigs of stuff on it that's just easier to leave on it and network w/our iMac, and lately it's been making a constant loud disturbing noise. Sort of like a chainsaw. I copied al the data onto my TiBook HD and am going to burn it to CD 'cause I know that machine's gonna go soon. Not sure what the noise is, but I'm pretty sure it can't be good. Yeah, I'd second the warning to back up your data, JIC.

tigerwoods99 · December 27, 2001 10:16PM

Yeah, I'll burn it on a CD now I think.

magicite · December 30, 2001 3:19AM

Did you ever replace the original hard drive with an IBM 75 GXP model? :: shudders ::

The click of death is a gruesome thing, especially when it destroys 17.4 gigs of MP3s and 12 years worth of written documents....

dogcow · December 30, 2001 11:23AM

My Old Performa has always done that, right from day one. I figured out that it was the monitor on top of the case pushing against the harddrive. But if you have a tower, it could be that the drive is just dieing.

revs · December 30, 2001 1:05PM

[quote]Originally posted by Magicite:

<strong>Did you ever replace the original hard drive with an IBM 75 GXP model? :: shudders ::

The click of death is a gruesome thing, especially when it destroys 17.4 gigs of MP3s and 12 years worth of written documents....</strong><hr></blockquote>

don't say that! I have a 75 GXP.....better not die on me...

tigerwoods99 · December 30, 2001 1:16PM

I've never replaced the hard drive in it. The stock says its an IBM but I'm not sure which model.

Hard drive

Driver version: 3.2.5

Mac OS partitions: 1

Removable media: No

Vendor: IBM

Revision number: T5AA73A

Product ID: DTTA-350840

Serial Number: WEOWEF26552

Size: 8.44 GB (1K=1000)

Capacity: 7.87 (1K=1024)

Fortunately the chainsaw noise hasn't occured for since I last told you all, but I still don't trust this thing. I backed up quite a few things on a CD-R just in case.

ap · December 30, 2001 5:02PM

[quote] Originally posted by TigerWoods99:

<strong>

Fortunately the chainsaw noise hasn't occured for since I last told you all, but I still don't trust this thing. I backed up quite a few things on a CD-R just in case.</strong><hr></blockquote>

you should back-up important stuff often even if your harddisk works perfect.

Harddisks sometimes crashes just like that. I've tried it myself (and I was almost loosing years of work...a professional company rescued the disk though) And I've seen it often on other macs.

ap

cdhostage · December 30, 2001 5:19PM

My adivce is take it out back and shoot it.

Backup first.

crawlingparanoia · December 31, 2001 12:17AM

Wow. I thought I was the only one with this problem. Does it make sort of a grinding noise? and does it freeze the system?

I also have an IBM HD and after using it for awhile (filling up about half the space) I'll try and do something and I'll get 3 grinding noises followed by a pause, then it repeats, and the whole system freezes.

Try this: go back and do whatever you did to make it happen in the first place. Everytime that this has happened to me I've been able to reproduce it, and I think the problem is a bad block on the HD. The first time this happened to me (long time ago) it would occur whenever I tried to launch an Office app. The most recent time it would happen when I'd try and open or move some movies that I had. Let me know if you can reproduce the problem.

You can read more about my "experience" <a href="http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=8300945231&m=6260915933&r= 6260915933" target="_blank">here</a> (Apple Elite).

ghost_user_name · December 31, 2001 3:19AM

Do you have a microphone with which you could record the "chainsaw" sound for us?

existenz · December 31, 2001 5:25AM

Our beige G3 freezes every time the cd slot starts loading while im not using the cd in any way.

/\ldie · December 31, 2001 8:23AM

[quote]Do you have a microphone with which you could record the "chainsaw" sound for us?<hr></blockquote>

yeaaah I would really loooove to hear that...

sorry.

tigerwoods99 · December 31, 2001 3:50PM

Hmm well the thing is I don't know what I did to make it sound like a chainsaw. I was just doing normal stuff, reading AI, listening to music on iTunes, talking to friends on AIM, nothing I haven't done before.

I do have a microphone which I can record the sound from if it occurs again. The beige G3 at my dad's work doesn't seem to have any problems like mine, although he says it freezes. I haven't witnessed it ever though.

Yeah the noise is sort of like a grinding noise, I would describe it as a chain saw digging into something. It's fairly loud and goes for a little while, pauses, then starts up again.

Um......weirdest thing just happened...

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