Constant Fan Noise from Hard Drive

My power book runs with a constant 'fan' like noise from the hard drive (front left of pd)
My friend has same machine and has No sound,
checked with display models in Apple Store (ear right necxt to pb) - No sound
I have had this low level noise from new.
Anyone else have the same problem.
John

hello there!
When I upgraded to 1.4.0 and I notice that ear piercing noise and it was quite annoying. I called Apple and they advised me to look into the activity monitor. And YES, it ws the anti virus that came with .mac that 1.4.2 for some reason did not like and the process was running for such a long time consuming the resources including of course HD. I removed the anti virus (which at this point was useless) and the machine was just wonderful again.
I think what I may say is that you may want to look for a process (using the activity monitor) which is eating the cpu alive - if you can remove it the better, else try to deal with. Good luck - an OSX convert!

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