[Cube] cube making alien sounds

Chris Lim chrislim at macosx.com
Thu Jan 26 03:47:15 PST 2006


Sure sounds like yer hard disk is giving up the ghost...

Visit here for some sounds of hard drives on the way out

http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74
/4b1a62a50f405d0d86256756006e340c?OpenDocument

On 26/1/06 1:53 PM, "Lacorona at aol.com" <Lacorona at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> well, my cube is making sounds intermittantly that sound like alien hums; on /
> off.... on/ off electronic eeking noise. Then comes with a camera , then a
> disk witha blinking qusestion mark. Then more keening sound (high pitched sort
> of not whine, but, well, sweaky tone you might expect from an alarm clock set
> on low volume.
> 
> Also, the 23 inch monitor is not lighting up as it once did as brightly. Ok,
> just not as bright. The large thingy with lots of little holes in it...? The
> Power pack, or whatever it is called that the plug goes into and then into the
> wall... that unit ws replaced about a year ago at a rather high cost. Could it
> be that again? If theplug gets even the slightest bit loose, things dont work.
> But, I have checked and double checked all connections, and nope that doesnt
> appear to be the problem.
> 
> is my cube all eightlegs up? It has OS 10.2 and a partition to os9. Has worked
> perfectly for years except for bad thingie(technical term) I mentioned before.
> 
> ah sigh
> 
> best, 
> ceep
> 
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