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-- [ From: Wesley T. Dunaway * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- >>From: <Dunaway_Wesley/furman@furman.edu> >>A very strange thing happened today. Has anyone else had >>this happen to them? >> About >>2pm today I notice a noisy grinding sound coming from the >>computer. Further investigation reveals that it's coming >>from the hard drive. >> About 9pm the sound >>stops. Now the hard drive makes the same old whine it used >>to. What gives? > >This is weird. Almost exactly the same happened to me at the same moment! >I have a Thinkpad 720C and yesterday in the evening (must be early afternoon >in the US) the HD 170 MB began to make a noise like a coffeegrinder. I >turned the computer off and on and off and on and the noise stayed. So with >haste I began to make a backup of the whole disk (PCTools Backup, costs me >67 diskettes). All the time the noise was there, very annoying. Then I >turned the computer off. >Late at night, just before I wanted to go to bed, I turned it on. The noise >was gone. I worked on it today for three hours now - no noise. >So I repeat your question: what gives? > > > >- Rob This certainly is weird. I expected that maybe someone had experienced something similar. I didn't expect that they would have experienced it at *exactly the same time* that I did. In any event, I called the Psychic Hotline today. The nice lady there told me that because of the Aquarian alignment of the Zoroastrian sun, and the gravitational pull of the Comet Europa, a Submusculaneous Alignment took place between Greenville, South Carolina, USA, and a certain town in the Netherlands. This alignment of the stars occurs only once every 100,000 years. She said that our computers must now contact one another physically to restore the bond established by the alignment and that, when it happens, a mystical force will envelope their owners, causing a fully enlightened condition of Bushido. What this means, Rob, is that you must send your TP 720 to me. I will perform the contact and you will have Bushido enlightenment. :-> But seriously, I'm sure coincidences happen, but this is really strange. Has anyone at all had an experience like this? I honestly can't think of a good explanation. Can someone address hard drive noises in general? Maybe dust or something got into the motor and started the grinding noise. Strange, strange, strange. . . Wesley Dunaway (dunaway@s9000.furman.edu)