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: >