On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 12:08 AM, Fran Dollinger wrote: > THEN after about 30 seconds I get this loud whirring sound. What's > that? I don't know. I did a hard shut down (nothing else worked), > waited a few minutes and started it up again. Everything was fine. > Today the same thing happened after it being asleep again, another > hard shutdown....now (just now) it started the loud whirring noise and > is still doing it as I type this.... What is this....anyone? Might check the cdrom drive to see if there is a cd there... --- I have just installed Virtual PC on my Powerbook G4 and XP Pro to run Delorme's mapping stuff. Now I have a Mac with OS X and a Windows operating system that runs faster than 80% of the windows machines in the world. [Actual percentage to be verified later]. jackrodgers at earthlink.net http://www.jackrodgers.com Soon to be online: http://www.lobatelacscale.com