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Thats a really good sign. It'd check the fans next, maybe the CDROM too. Also make sure the power connectors (that little plastic plugs in the back of the CDROM and hard drive) are in securely.

Bill: The scandisk that runs when you don't shut down your computer correctly is not set to do a surface scan. You need to run one manually to find out how bad your problems is; specify the surface scan parameter.

Does it sound like a miniature version of an unbalanced washing machine? Thats the first (and usually final) sign of a disk going bad. Use SCANDISK or a similar program to run a complete surface test on the drive, testing for bad sectors. It will take a long time (sometimes 10 hours or so)...