Volume troubleshooting - weird sounds

Hi,
i just bought an iBook G4 (12'') and when i first turn it on and want to change the volume with the F4 and F5 keys, instead of the specific sound supposed to come out (like a bubble) it kind of bugs and takes a while before actually carrying out the command...
I thus hear a low, and sort of weird sound.
However, when I open iTunes, it works just fine... It's no real problem actually but I'm afraid it might only be the tip of the iceberg.
I have to admit that I did give it a slight bump before noticing that problem, but then again I only bought 10 days ago without yet having made full use of it...
(I also checked the CD burner and it works fine, so how could a bump not affect the -sensitive- CD burner and affect the volume keys... ?)
does anybody have a clue... ?
THank you very much.
iBook G4 12'' Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Do you have a lot of applications running when it does this? I find that when my computer is doing a lot, there will be a delay before it changes the volume level. The sound is also sometimes a little different. Does it do this when you don't have anything besides the system running? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. It's just because the computer is using a lot of it's memory at that moment. You can always add more RAM, and that should solve it. But it's not that big of a problem

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