Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have
hit the solution yet.
I did format the hd on my G4 and partioned with the
8gb. I then put the drive back in the WS and it did
the same thing.
I haven't tried the metal strip because I thought this
was related only to sleep issues and
Decided today to try to get a little more life out of
the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g
Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in.
Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2
disk, but only got the flashing question mark. This
made no sense so I tried resetting
Wallstreet PDQ with 320 ram OS X 1.5
I was typing on the WS when it let out a high pitch
noise ( I thought of 2001, A Space Odyssey) that
lasted as long as it took me to save and shut down.
Restarted and no problems. Several days ago heard a
noise like something was shorting out. It appears
