Duck like sounds coming from PB

has anybody experienced a duck like sound coming from the front of there PB? I dont know if it's my HD or superdrive.
And now my PB is freezing on me every 15min. I did a clean install, and it's still crashing.
G4, Powerbook and iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi, zeronine, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Your OS does contain an indignant "quack!!" sound file, but choosing to have that used as one of the standard system sounds (as in "Stop! You don't want to do that!") is the only way I know of to get a duck inside a Tibook.
I would guess that you're hearing your hard drive, but I've sure never heard any hard drive noise described as "duck like" before.

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