Did Someone Drop my Powerbook?

shieldyoureyes said:

I am afraid this could be a yes. I treat it like my baby, but very well could have been one of my roomates while I was out.. A couple weeks ago, I noticed a blemish/scuff on the bottom edge of the case, and yesterday, I noticed that when I close the lid, one side fits nice and snug, but there is about a 1-2 mm gap on the other side. Now here is the most disturbing problem: It will make a quite noise, almost sounds like a fan, and then the hard drive will make a quick sound (like its searching or writing something) for about 0.25 seconds, the that noise will change pitch and be a little louder, then the hard drive sounds, the it makes the quiter sounds. It does this cycle over and over again with the hard drive making that sounds about every 5-15 seconds.

Its really getting a little annoying, especially when it is dead quite. Maybe I'm just paridnoid, but I remembered it being dead quite before. I'm hope my hard drive isn't failing.

12" Powebook G4 1.5ghz 1.25 GB RAM OS 10.4.8

Thanks in advance for any help

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shieldyoureyes said:

I plan on asking around when they get home. I know one would tell me, just not sure about the other. The only thing that got me thinking that was the fact that I have no idea where the big scratch/abrasion came from.

Backing up everything just in case...

Is it bad I am kind of hoping it will burst into flames so I can get a Macbook Pro?

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