Hey all,
so i usually leave my rev A 12" PB on all night long (10.3, stock, except an added 512mb ram chip). so i get up this morning and notice that WeatherBug (a little app that displays the temp and weather in the menu bar) has freaked out and littered my screen with something like 10 dialog boxes saying it couldn't save my preferences or somthing to that effect.
i try a force quit, try to reboot, log out, relaunch finder, none of that works. so i do a hard restart, and then it just sits on the grey screen, no logo appears. my stomach sinks.
after 2 more restarts, it boots up...takes forever as it usually does when not restarted properly. logs in and starts up ok...
that's when the sounds from the HD start...it sounds like an engine revving up or groaning or somethign NOT GOOD. i have no clue why this would have happened thanks to weatherbug, but it has. when i realized it was making some bad sounds, i tried to shut it down, but that process froze so i just held the power button until it shut down and listened to the hard drive slowly wind down several seconds after the machine had shut off..
fortunately, i have applecare. what's my best course of action here? i think when i get home from work i'm going to copy all my data onto my external drive and then bring it down to the apple store tomorrow, but will they really be able to help at all? should i just call in and send it out? i was hoping i'd never have to deal with this...
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