Clunk Clunk Freeze Can You Help?

My Mac is almost 3 years old. I have never dropped it and have had zero problems with it, until recently. I'll be online running a flash movie, or playing a flash game and all the sudden the computer makes an ugly noise followed by a loud CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK, then the pinwheel comes up. As soon as this happened I turned the computer off. It restarted fine, then about 15 mins later it repeated. Then i picked up the powerbook and it was pretty warm (even though it is on a flat hard surface)
I read the CLUNK could be the hard drive but I downloaded TechTool Deluxe and did the full scan and the hard drive passed everything.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

The clunk is almost certainly the hard drive. Software diagnostic tools usually won't pick it up, but if I were you, I'd make good backups, and consider purchasing a new hard drive for it.

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