> Hmmm...the mystery continues... Have you booted with a panther or Jaguar disk? Did the noise go away? Booted into "safe mode" by holding shift down? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393 Any third part extensions added? Tried this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388 or ran fsck from the command line? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214