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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / March 2006Buzz sound
Hi All, Recently my G4 tower has started making a little two-tone buzzing-beep sound just as everything stops on shut-down. It's definitely coming from inside the case. Sort of sounds: beep-beep, with the last beep a couple of notes lower than the first. Not all the time - only when the computer's been on for a few hours. The buzzing-beep is the last thing the computer does before shut down is complete. I up-graded to Tiger a couple of months ago and have had no other problems (apart from losing Wiretap!). Any ideas would be appreciated. Mark. > Hi All, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Mark. Sometimes the beep indicates disk failure is coming. Open Disk utility and try to rebuild permissions. You will get a red warning if failure is imminent. >> Hi All, >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > and try to rebuild permissions. You will get a red warning if failure is > imminent. Thanks Graley. I did the permissions thing (I do that pretty regularly anyway) and the disk verify thing, and the green writing indicated all OK. Your idea has made me nervous, though! Any other thoughts? "Anyone?... Anyone?" Mark. >>> Hi All, >>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Mark. My son tells me there two kinds of hard disk drives. Ones that are about to fail, and ones thaht have failed. >>>> Hi All, >>>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >>>> >>>> Mark. > My son tells me there two kinds of hard disk drives. Ones that are about > to fail, and ones thaht have failed. Graley, Kids, eh? Aren't they just so funny?? I'm not being filled with confidence that the buzzing beep is an insignificant, easily remedied problem, guys! Could it be something to do with heat? (And thanks Rifty. I'm downloading audio recorder even as we "speak.") Mark. > (And thanks Rifty. I'm downloading audio recorder even as we "speak.") No problems. Hope it does what you want. I have several old voice cassettes that are rapidly deteriorating, but with Audio Recorder, just plugged into the standard line-in from the headphones socket of the casette player of the old iMac, turned on Audio Recorder, and it created excellent .p4a files. Definitely worth a donation to the author for the freeware. Rifty  SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Mark. I think the general consensus is that drives may become generally more noisy as they approach then end of their lives, at the first sign of a drive being iffy or making noises I don't recognise I consider it time to ensure my data is backed up and reccommend you do too. It *could* of course be something entirely different but its always better to err on the side of caution... :) Joe. >>>>>>Hi All, >>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Joe. Joe, That seems to be what everyone feels (and what common sens would suggest). However, the sound isn't really a random, scratchy, noisy, "everything going haywire" sound. It's quite "controlled" and clearly a two-tone, buzzing "beep" that occurs immediately before shutdownn happens. And it doesn't happen all the time. It hasn't happened for the last several shutdowns. Not knowing is really getting to me. I'd appreciate any bright ideas. Mark. > I up-graded to Tiger a couple of months ago and have had no other > problems (apart from losing Wiretap!). No help for your primary concern, but if you get the new version of Audio Recorder (free) from versiontracker, it can do anything Wiretap used to do on Panther, only better (on Tiger!) Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net |
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