OT: tibook keeps making clunk sound

[Terry Richards]

Ryan Nix wrote:

> Your hard drive is going bad.  Thats about the only thing that would 
> "click" in the system unless you put a baseball card on your fan.

yes, it is going bad, but it is only a few months old and the first one 
took over a year to do this. the question is why would 2 of 'em do it? 
from what i read apple knows it happens but i can not find any info on 
the reason...and the remedy

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> Terry Richards wrote:
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>> Jonathan Hartje wrote:
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>>> buy a g5?
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>> out of the question...another new hd would be a hardship on me.
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>>> Terry Richards wrote:
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>>>> my powerbook g4 keeps making a clunking sound. this happens in 
>>>> macosx and ydl. it doesn't stop until after all processes are 
>>>> stopped and the machine turns off. it usually starts after i access 
>>>> the internet with browser or mail. <but then i am usually on the 
>>>> net when using the machine > dsl>.
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>> i did the obvious and rebooted the machine with no cable and it is 
>> still making a noise like a stiff zipper grinding its' teeth.
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>> :-)^2
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