My issue occurs for extended periods (5-15min) during normal operations. I
don't turn my G5 off often enough to notice if it occurs on startup... It
certainly occurs when waking from sleep, but I don't consider that special
(as it occurs at other times also).

T.



On 19/10/06 11:51 AM, "Susan Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My G5 1.8 makes a groaning noise when it starts up, again, like
> something slowly spinning up. Its over 12 months old and has been
> making the noise most of that time. Daniel has had the machine to
> look at another problem, and didn't think it was an issue, or perhaps
> didn't even notice it because this was when all of the G5 1.8s were
> not working properly and it took Apple ages to come up with the
> firmware fix.
> 
> If it was one of the hard drives it would have died by now, and disk
> utility doesn't find any problems. I wonder if its the fans?
> 
> Its very quiet in its normal operation mode, this just happens at
> start up.
> On 19/10/2006, at 11:11 AM, Geoffrey & Barbara Maidment wrote:
>