[P1] the whirring is back! was:new ibook problem...

[Joe Jones]

I wonder if that's a grokked bearing in the fan, and it only causes 
vibration sometimes. My old PC's cpu fan had this problem which made it 
noisy as all hell. I put a couple of 5p coins under the right hand 
front corner of the box and it eliminated the buzz. Obviously this 
isn't going to work on an iBook.

I don't know what to suggest since the fan is not a user serviceable 
part - it's pretty easy to remove it, but you can't just ask Apple for 
a replacement part.

Joe

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 02:50 Europe/London, Fran Dollinger wrote:

>
> On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 04:35 AM, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>
>> On your keyboard, probably the F5 key, is an FKey with a speaker icon 
>> and 3 sound waves. Press that the next time you hear the whirring and 
>> see if the whirring stops. If so, then you have some extension or 
>> application that is generating a sound through the speakers.
>>
>> You can also press the F3 key, speaker icon with no sound wave, to 
>> reduce the speaker volume while the whirring sound occurs. If it now 
>> is lower in volume, see the above paragraph.
>>
>> If either or both of these tests prove positive, do a search while in 
>> the Finder, Command+F, for the word Sound and report what you find.
>
> Finally, did it again! I tried these suggestions and there was no 
> change. Also, I can feel air blowing out the back...so, it is the fan 
> as someone suspected. Another thing is that the A/C adapter is glowing 
> amber like it's recharging the batteries...only thing is, it has been 
> plugged in all day hence no battery usage....I had the following 
> open...Camino (thanks again, Kathe), iTunes playing some Celtic music, 
> SystemPreferences (because I forgot to close it), Mail & Sherlock 
> (checking out the Movie thing...mine works fine, also). I'm thinking 
> that Apple should at least double the height of the the foot pads on 
> the iBook or include a set of stilts with them.
>
> Fran
>
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