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OMG that’s a horrid sound!

Think of it as an opportunity. ; )

Very well done… I feel your pain!

at least it isn’t a clunking noise.

you need a genius and a pair of really good headphones.

notice how the PC isn’t singing.

I actually had that exact noise in my 15 inch Powerbook G4. It is a fan gone bad. Apple fixed it and then it happened to me again. Same problem different fan and I had to send it back in again.

It is a horrendous noise and I feel your pain. It really begins to eat at your brain. For one the noise is just awful and two it shouldn’t happen, especially twice in the same MAC.

I hope you get it fixed soon. If I can help in anyway, just email me.

Best,
Chuck

That’s a mac for ya! They sing songs and have a great marketing department, but do they make hardware that is worth the cash? I highly recommend Alienware.

Maybe it was that Gateway mouse, hope you got the Apple Care warranty.

that happened to me a few months ago….its a failing fan

I caught the tail end of that conversation yesterday before you took a nap. Bummer.

Shoot us a video when the thing finally takes off!

poor baby.. thats terrible tap it a few times and hope it goes away. heheh

I hope you have AppleCare
(Who am I kidding? I’m SURE you’ve got it!)

I have to say, I stubbled here out of bordem and when I usually find blogs I’m still bored, but you my friend have the greatest, most entertaining blog I’ve ever read/watched/stubbled across! It’s even better than my best friend’s blog (please do not quote me on that anywhere she can see) lols. I’d like to do a link exchange with you or at the least LINK YOU. So this is me, Dionne, asking for permission. Do you mind?

It sounds like a fan is dying and/or hitting something. If the sound is coming from directly under the left palm rest then it’s the hard drive in which case you better back up now.

I think Paul is on the money with the diagnosis of the fan having trouble. There’s two fans in the MacBook Pro, one on the left, one on the right, and it sounds like your left fan has a bad bearing, or one of the pieces of tape that holds down wires in the MBP came loose and is interfering with the blades. To test to be sure it’s the fan and not the hard drive, download and install Fan Control 1.1 and crank the fans up to full blast (6000rpm) for a few minutes, and hopefully the sound should change, indicating it’s the fan.

It’s a fairly quick fix to get a new fan assembly in there if your machine is under warranty or Applecare. If it’s not, I don’t believe the parts are horrifically expensive, but it might be worth taking the machine apart, and seeing if you can find anything interfering with the fan blades.

Oh dear Justine. I had a similar sounding problem like that a few weeks back on my G4 Powerbook. The hard drive sounded like a fan with a stick in it!
My solution? A weird one, uninstall Virtual PC (that was one hell of a mistake installing that Microsoft bastard child). Got to a terminal, deleted the startup files it had installed and back to normal.
I doubt that would help you, so I guess I’m really just rubbing it in.
Sorry!

Call Apple, I am sure they don’t want you to tell the world that you mac is having an attack, who would then buy a mac? Mac Attacks are not good.
Find a symathetic Mac user to show you how to rid this mmmmmmmmmm from your machine.

sorry, I am happy when you are happy. You appear to be super stressed. Hope you have a successful stint in MN. Bye Love, Gram

Patrick Norton had a noisy P/S fan so he stuck a screw driver into it. It struck a “hot” wire and basicly blew up. So be careful. I bet if you could hit it with some compressed air it might fix it.

Its very noticable on your lifecast. - cheerio : )

I’ve experienced the exact same sound twice on a 1st Gen MBP. Left fan went out first… right fan went out about a month later. Had both replaced and no problems since.