Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
, its just a bug with SMART, and in any other computer it will work fine. -Tyler On Feb 15, 12:25 am, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up, coast, and then repeat. I think this only happens when I sleep it while it is booting up. Does anyone have any idea why

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
treasure. In my case, this happens to be with old Macs :) On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com wrote: 'sleep while booting up'... yeah right sounds like this guy is pranking... Clark Martin wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
...@interlog.com wrote: 'sleep while booting up'... yeah right sounds like this guy is pranking... Clark Martin wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
to be with old Macs :) On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com wrote: 'sleep while booting up'... yeah right sounds like this guy is pranking... Clark Martin wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep

Re: Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Styer
an iMac with this problem, and we just swapped out HD's and it worked fine. If you have any extra IDE HD's around, you can try one of those see if the problem goes away. -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Mike Styer wrote

Weird hard drive noises

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Styer
Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up, coast, and then repeat. I think this only happens when I sleep it while it is booting up. Does anyone have any idea why this nights happen? One mans trash is