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What does a dead 12" PowerBook fan sound like?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, Ontario
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Strange happenings with my 12" PowerBook (1.33ghz model). Yesterday it slowed to a total crawl, enormously long beachball on all activities then everything taking 20-40 times as long as normal to do anything (including booting). Tried OSX install disk utility but it could not verify the internal hard disk. I began to think maybe it was a dead fan. I was finally able to get things running at about 25% speed by alternately blowing into the vents and putting the machine in the fridge which allowed me to get off any files that were not backed up (I know, I should have backed them up, but one downside to relying on PB for digital photos is that backing up seems to be even easier to forget than ever). The whole process was quite freaky.
Today the machine is working perfectly. Disk utility went through the hard drive and said no repairs were needed. Anyone ever had this sort of thing happen?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
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could be the hard drive is failing...
happened to me, where booting, opening windows, etc...took forever.
i had the hard drive replaced, and all is well...
back up NOW.
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2005
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I had nearly the same thing happen to me a while ago which also turned out to be a failing hard drive.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2001
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I don't think a dead fan sounds like anything.
It is, after all, dead.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: New York, NY
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Sounds like a HD problem, except for the part about the fridge. Weird. 
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