My guess is it's a fan, the most common failure I've seen with fans is that
the hub develops a small crack, this causes the fan blades to hit the outer
cover. The sound usually goes away after a few minutes because it simply
shaves off the small amount needed to NOT cuase the blade to hit. Eventually
though the crack gets bad enough that the blade always hits. TTYL

> Someone is going to have to open the case and "see"
> and hear where the noise is coming from.
> Hard drives going do not have to make "any" abnormal noise.
> I find it MUCH more normal for other things to make noise
> as they fail.               Good luck,    Rick Glazier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Rafanelli" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Dear listmembers,
> >When I turned my computer on this morning
> >I heard a grinding noise which lasted a few
> >minutes. Is that an indication of an
> >imminent hard drive failure?

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