Er, strange noises

Patrick Neame

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Nov 20, 2008, 5:39:46 AM11/20/08

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My G5 powermac is making strange noises: tock, tock, tock. Is my hard
drive about to give up?

I'm going to switch off.

Patrick Neame
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Drew Reece

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Nov 20, 2008, 7:48:25 AM11/20/08

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Sound like any of these?
http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

Stick your head in and get a good listen, to make sure it's not just a
fan.
Your safest bet is to get a HD to copy on to, or recovery specialists
if it's really important.

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Derek Buttery

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Nov 20, 2008, 9:16:06 AM11/20/08

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is it anything to do with over-clocking...?

{sorry!}

Regards

Dek

VTID

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Patrick Neame

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Nov 25, 2008, 5:01:38 PM11/25/08

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I beg to move the motion that we boycott UPS. Why, foresooth, I hear
you ask. Well they have a pop up ad that I've only just discovered
lurking away beneath a few windows. Some silly UPS cartoon character
does a two step shuffle on a desk at "your" office. Guess what, the
tap dance routine sounds exactly like a hard drive that's on the point
of failure.

On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:10 pm, Patrick Neame wrote:

> The web site noises suggest damaged heads. Hurrah for back up.

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