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Monday morning. Start up my computer. Fancy greeting in the form of a sudden, constant whirring sound coming from the rear of the computer, neither side is favored. It sounds like the fan(s) are running super fast. Attending this sound are these smaller dysfunctions: the screen will go near-black when idle, instead of grayed down; when in sleep mode, the intermittant sleep light does not come on; the power cord (there is no battery in this laptop since it split apart long ago), which typically glows bright green, is now just a whisper, barely glowing at all; and the whirring begins IMMEDIATELY when I touch the on button and doesn't subside for several seconds after I close the laptop for sleep.
What. On. Earth?
The computer has never behaved this way except during brief periods of extreme high temperatures, but even then, the smaller issues were never present. I've looked on forums and see various possible explanations, but nothing that covers this combination of sudden problems. I have bought an additional external harddrive, which will arrive by Friday (my other one is full), so I'll back up everything in a flash. In the meantime, is it safe for me to be using the whirring beast? Do any of you mac-heads have experience with this?
Thanks in advance for any information you can share!

Thanks for the answer. I've been backing up my data all along. The Apple Care phone support people have been insisting that it must be a software problem because of the extended hardware test showing no errors. When I took my machine to the Apple Care store, they only wiped the hard drive, reinstalled the OS, and replaced the chassis that had been damaged in an earlier Apple Store service visit.
I forgot to mention that I've also replaced one of the RAM cards (which failed the EHT in October, when the logic board also failed), so I'm now on my third problem. I've done a bit more examination of the machine, and I'm fairly sure I've got a Rev A iMac. The serial number falls within the range of the ones that had problems, though mine aren't the ones described on the info page.
I've been trying the Apple Care suggested solution of creating a new user (the last Apple Care person I spoke to insisted that the problem was created by some bad preferences). I haven't yet had another experience of the "tongky" noise followed by the response slowing to a crawl, but I do hear an ominous single click several times a day. Response times continue to be sluggish (again, I have a GB of memory), and the machine continues to go to sleep after about 5-10 minutes of being idle (I'm currently set for one hour), with the screen saver never coming on.
I guess my bottom line question is what exactly do I say to Apple Care to convince them that I've got a hardware problem and get them to replace the hard drive?

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