[P1] new iBook problem...

[Brian Pearce]

> ...Yesterday I put the 'book to sleep for a few hours while I ran into 
> town and when I came home and lifted the lid she started right up . 
> THEN after about 30 seconds I get this loud whirring sound. What's 
> that? I don't know.

Assuming you don't have a CD in the tray, this is probably the hard 
disc. Offhand, I'd venture a guess that some part is heating up with 
use, expanding, and creating friction with a spinning component of the 
drive. First thing to do is to check and make sure everything was put 
back properly when you installed the additional RAM module; perhaps 
even remove it and see what happens.

Otherwise, if this has just happened after you received the iBook back 
from Apple, I'd make arrangements to send it back to them again. Apart 
from being irritating, it could significantly shorten the life of the 
drive. (And if there's a problem with heat building up inside the case, 
that could pose lots of long-term problems, as well.)

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net