[Kyle_Varnell]

The last couple days I've been noticing a small "Popping" sound coming from my MBP and I can't exactly figure out what it is. It sounds like somebody making the "Water Drip" sound with their mouth. It comes and goes every few minutes and it's driving me a little crazy. I think it's coming from the lower half of my MBP but I'm not sure.

Has anyone else had this problem and if so what did you do about it? Also should I take it in and have my local Apple Store take a look at it?

Thanks much,

Kyle L. Varnell

[anerjee]

Hi Kyle,



Any luck with the sound. I got my MB a couple of days back, and I am noticing a similar sound too ("pop" or " clap"). Did you take it to the store to get it checked out?

[Kyle_Varnell]

I haven't yet (as of March 27) but I think I might in the coming week. I'll let you know what they tell me if you haven't had yours looked at yet.

Kyle

[ComoPark]

Dear Kyle-

Did you ever find ut what this was / is?

Out of nowehere, I am having the same problem- almost as if a distant sound effect is on... a very faint drip- as if in a cave- followed by an almost indescernabl second drip... Really sounds like a faint sound effect that goes up or down with the volume.

I just got my Powerbook G4 (last version before the Pentium) back from the mac repair store- extra memory aded, Leopard installed and a new hard disk- and this started... are the two connected?

It is really creepy- and quite annoying. Anything you know would be helpful- or anything anyone knows would be helpful- I've seen this on the internet, but the threads don't usually contain the solution.

Thanks in advance-

Kenneth

[azzaman]

Not sure if this is the same noise but this is what happened to me..

In itunes i went to play some audio and there was this loud crack-pop. It actually sounded like something was shorting out inside the computer. The file was playing from an external HD. I also played some movie from iphoto and also head this cracking/poping sound also. After a restart it was not present. This happened only a couple of times since the machine was new (2 months old computer 2.66 17 inch MBP).

I took the machine into the local apple store to get it checked out. They didn't find anything and could not replicate the sound. They thought it might be the bearing in the fans as they spin faster. I went in to pick the machine up and decided to boot it up while still in the store and hopped that the sound would appear. But the HD was dead. The bloke said it was ok when it was on the bench yesterday.

So the HD was replaced and i have not heard the sounds since (one week). But it really did sound like something was shorting out in there and not an HD issue.