A bad or misaligned pulley, or one of the belt driven accessories seized. I'd start by checking the tensioner and idler pulleys.
TheSubaruGuruBoston answered 4 years ago
Yeah...I'm going to guess a locking-up ac compressor. Otherwise a frozen idler would squeal like crazy.
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