Weird Static Image, Clicking Noises

[d88co88]

When I sometimes wake it up from sleep mode, there is a moving static picture that doesn't go away until I restart it. It doesn't happen every time, maybe once every other day. There is also a fast, intermittent clicking noise coming from either the hard drive bay or disc drive area, I can't tell. I attached a picture of the static image. Any ideas?

 

[zachsilvey]

Is that the PowerMac G4, if so it could be a video card driver issue, or a bad video card.

 

[d88co88]

Yes, this is the PowerMac, but what would that clicking sound be?

 

[jampat]

Hard drives can make a fast clicking noise on their way out.

Do you use the disk drive much? Can you just disconnect the disk drive power for a bit and try to get the computer to lock up again and see if the clicking noise has stopped.

On PC's when I had a scrambled screen, pulling and reseating the video card and/or ram when the computer was off helped the situation.

 

[d88co88]

I do use the hard drives a lot. I keep the computer on during the day and put it to sleep at night, but in energy saver I chose to have the hard disks asleep at any possible time.

 

[zachsilvey]

You might also be suffering a kernal panic, the clicking could be drive dying and that dying drive could cause a kernal panic thus locking up the machine.