[JimWG]

Greetings all!

I've had my new eMac almost four weeks now and I've noticed that occasionally I'd hear over the regular continuous fan a new "blowing" sound, almost like a new fan's gone on with a slight "turbine" whine, or some mysterious vent's just opened up inside and sometimes I could even a slight draft coming from somewhere. I'm sure it's not the fan merely briefly speeding up and slowing down; it's a distinctively different "wheezing blow." Can anyone tell me what's going on in my new baby?

James W. Greenidge

[macaddict0001]

Did you just put a disk in? If so then it is just the drive spinning up.

[Detrius]

All of the eMacs that I have seen just have the one fan in the back. Optical drives can be pretty noisy, though.

[rezzi]

Try putting it to sleep. If the 'turbine' sound goes away, it's the harddrive spinning up/down.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by rezzi:
Try putting it to sleep. If the 'turbine' sound goes away, it's the harddrive spinning up/down.

Doesn't everything including any fans shut off then also?