[templetalker]

Brp Brp Brp Brppp, that computer sound! Here is a really crazy problem. It started when I downloaded, Native Instruments, DJ Traktor 2.0 Demo for OS X this weekend. Then when I was using it the program did something I have never seen since I switched from Windows...It froze! Now during the freezing proccess, my computer started making this sound repeatadly until the program quit on its on behalf. Then it started happening else where! Almost everywhere! MPlayer freezes in movies, sometimes it quits, sometimes if I leave it alone in plays! iTunes quites automatically! So I uninstalled all of the TRAKTOR files, gone! Now I cannot log into one of my two USER accounts. Finally I get in. Its nuts! I want to back up, yet Toast 6 freezes and that sound comes again, everything is still freezing at the most unpredictable moments; itunes, mplayer, quicktime...except for Photoshop 7 and Safari, Text...everything else has gotten the smeggin' brp brp brp brpppp, brp brp brp brpppp, bang I am stuck! I can't back up files, anything ram intensive retards my 1 gig RAM, 30 gig HD, Powerbook G4! This is soooo frustrating, please help! Thanks again!

[::maroma::]

Not exactly sure what sound you are referring to, but I think I may have an idea of what it is. It sounds to me like you may have a bad sector on your hard drive. What model Mac is it, and can you open it up and listen to where the sound is coming from more specifically?

I had a bad sector on one of my drives a while back, and as it would reach the bad point my whole system would halt and it would make that loud hard drive grinding sound, only in a steady repeated manner. Then the app I was currently in would quit and my system would usually crash.

This is only a guess. My only solution was to replace the drive. I hope this helps.(?)

[templetalker]

Maroma thanks for the quick reply mate! That unfortunatley reads like what's happening with my Laptop. To be more specific it's a Powerbook G4 (Ver 2.1). I purchased it last August, it's the first Powerbook G4 to be hailed a success from the previous group of laptops. Right now though I hail it almost more that a good banana slug race. I have used it intensly for the past year, using matchmatica and crunching out audio after audio creation. The sound I am refering to sounds like the hard drive or ram is stuck on something, it always repeats this stuck sound and then usually the program running crashes, and yes a lot of the time the Finder crashes too! If it is the HD can you suggests any possible solution? Any links pointing towards Hard Drives for Powerbooks would be awesome! I really appreciate your feedback! Much Thanks

[Gul Banana]

The first thing to do is stop using your laptop IMMEDIATELY. That sound could indicate that the hard drive is dying, and when it actually does die it will take all your data with it. Permanently. As soon as you possibly can, acquire somewhere to back up all your data, and do so - firewire target disk mode works well - and until then, don't use the laptop at all. THEN get the hard drive checked by an apple authorized repair place (so you don't void your warrantly), and buy a new one if necessary.

[ZackS]

Ditto. In fact, don't try to backup very much. If you think you can get away with just your documents, *ahem* music collection, and anything else that you don't have on CD, then just back up those things. I reccomend backing up in small amounts when copying files. Copy about a quarter of the items in a large folder, then the next quarter, etc to avoid the grinding sound (affected files will still get it but this tends to minimalize the number of times it will happen). Seriously, I wish you good luck. Dying hard drives suck.