Mac Classic Noise?

iBookG4 FTW

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Dec 23, 2007

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Texas

• Mar 30, 2008

• #1

I booted up my old Macintosh Classic today, and it was making a noise it never had before. The fan sounded really loud, but I'm not sure it's even the fan.

Any ideas?

 

Sly

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Nov 30, 2003

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Airstrip One

• Mar 31, 2008

• #2

From memory there is no fan in the Macintosh Classic. About the only thing that could make a nasty noise is the HD, or possibly something jammed in the floppy drive?

 

Ill Mitch

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Jan 15, 2007

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Toronto, Canada

• Mar 31, 2008

• #3

Do you have one of those detachable fans that sits on the top of the computer?

I have one on my old Mac Plus and it's pretty loud, I think it's just a build up of dust or something on the fan, your hard-drive should be fine.

 

iBookG4 FTW

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Dec 23, 2007

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• Mar 31, 2008

• #4

Sly said:

From memory there is no fan in the Macintosh Classic. About the only thing that could make a nasty noise is the HD, or possibly something jammed in the floppy drive?

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There has always been something jammed in the floppy drive, but I've never heard this noise before. it's like a loud clicking noise, but it slows down and speeds up as the computer does (like on shut down it'll slowly come to a stop.)

 

DZ/015

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Mar 23, 2003

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• Apr 1, 2008

• #5

The Classic did have a fan for cooling. It could be that but if the sound is a clicking, it is most likely the old hard drive. You may want to find another 50 pin scsi drive if you wish to continue using this old computer.