Crickets in my new imac

I love my new imacg5. Best computer I ever had; however I have been hearing a "squeek squeek" occasionally (especially when running lots of apps. One evening it sounded like crickets (while I was burning a dvd). I tried apple chat support but Rajive wasn't quite getting the picture. I have searched this forum and found similar, but not quite identical issues. It only happens rarely.

Theresaa - I know what you're talking about. I got my G5 a few months ago and at first I thought it was my imagination, but there is a definite chirp there. I guess I've gotten used to it. It usually starts up if I'm using Logic Pro and turn the processors on to "Highest". If I leave the processors in the "auto" mode (in the System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options), then it's not as frequent.
(Now I have a problem with an annoying squeak when I open the CD/DVD tray). Always something...but not enough to ever want to buy a PC with Windows.
Thanks,
Jack

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The original thread has been archived, but I wanted to post a follow up in case anyone else has similar problems: I posted a question about a year ago regarding my brand new iMac g5 making a weird "squeek squeek" noise intermittently- I got a lot of patronizing replies that basically said it's normal and don't worry about it.
The noise was my hard drive dying. It crashed a few weeks after my first inquiry. Apple replaced it for free (warranty), but I was glad I had made a DVD backup.

Hi Theresaa, glad you have make a backup. Sorry to hear that, if I had seen your post much earlier I would have ask you to back up and replace your dying drive. I know 'cause the very same problem happened to me a while back and when I feedback to my vendor, he told me to immediately back up 'cause my internal drive was dying!
It will be a good practice from now on that you get an external same or bigger size drive and clone everything to it, as a backup and also make it bootable, in this case, when your drive fails again, you can either boot from this clone drive or when new drive is replaced, you just restore everything back. SuperDuper is by far the best and easiest clone/backup software I have ever use.
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See iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
BTW this list os for discussing the list itself. You'll get better response to questiosn you post if you post them to the correct list. I'll ask to have this moved to the iTunes list.
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But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
and select the Library that you moved. That's it.
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Your first option didn't work because you imported one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
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