Lately, amid hard disk trouble (spiceyokodo no comments), my Performa 475 has started to make a very strange noise.
Normally, wether the hard disk is working or not, it does the usual startup chime. Then, about a week ago, I noticed a strange, very feint hissing noise coming from the speaker. I don't know for how long it had been doing this. Then, yesterday (or maybe the day before), I had tried to boot it about 10-20 times. One time, never before, and not again for a while, it went:
Today, it did it again twice (not twice in a row, but fairly close together). It always makes exactly the same beep.
Why is this? I know macs should never beep on startup. Only disrespectful :disapprove: PCs do that! So why did it do this?
It's not a problem as such, I'm just intrested as to why it does it and what it means.
Normally, wether the hard disk is working or not, it does the usual startup chime. Then, about a week ago, I noticed a strange, very feint hissing noise coming from the speaker. I don't know for how long it had been doing this. Then, yesterday (or maybe the day before), I had tried to boot it about 10-20 times. One time, never before, and not again for a while, it went:
a bit like an airport anouncement. It did it straight after power on, right before the chime (it still chimed).
Today, it did it again twice (not twice in a row, but fairly close together). It always makes exactly the same beep.
Why is this? I know macs should never beep on startup. Only disrespectful :disapprove: PCs do that! So why did it do this?
It's not a problem as such, I'm just intrested as to why it does it and what it means.