Am I the only one with a blip/pop noise?!

While I think it's great that people still contribute and add to this thread, I must remind everyone that there are TWO different problems with the MBP discussed here:

1) The "electronic pop/crackle" from the speakers/line-out (as demonstrated a few posts above this one)

and

2) The "hard-disk frequent parking pop-sound" that clearly originates from the harddrive of the MBP. This is the issue that the HDPARM-program helps some people with.

Both issues are SERIOUS and none of them has been resolved or even adressed by Apple. That simply won't do.

You're right,
My last post concerned only the latter problem : "hard-disk frequent parking pop-sound"
But I think it might become a resolved problem with the above-described procedure...

Sorry, you misunderstood me and the file.

What you hear: The System "Pop"-Sound from Mac OS X, played periodically (~every 6 seconds).
Second 0 till 5: audio out in "sleep mode", silence
Second 5: First "Pop" played, audio awakes with dull "plopp"
Then, the "Pop"-Sound is played periodically, the werid noise changes everytime, randomly.
30 seconds after the last "Pop", the audio out falls to sleep with a dull "plopp" again, then silence.

This problem is independent of: battery / cable power WiFi / Bluetooth on / off, energy saving mode on / of, system reset. The weird noises are also independent of the current audio volume.

Bought my MBP in June and haven't heard anything until today, Aug 14. It's only done it a few times. I'm wondering why it wouldn't have done it until now, especially if it's normal? I'm an audio guy and work in quiet environments most of the time, so I would've noticed it.

oh, and you know what, it's actually not quiet, at least not on mine. It would have to be a fairly loud place, a coffee shop with music to miss it.

Froggy Ben,

Installing HDDLife on my Windows XP BootCamp partition appears to have done the trick!! The periodic faint blips are no longer occurring when booted into MacOS.

It's been nearly an hour now and my MacBook remains quietly at peace. I'll post again if it ever reoccurs.

Thanks!

Well the fix didn't last long.. After a reboot or two the blips are back. blip.... blip.....

I'm actually using just a plain macbook (not the pro) and it is making the exact same bloops. I can't study because it's annoying me sooo much.

I got my new MBP about 2 months ago (new mac convert) and about 2 to 3 weeks ago, I began to hear the +clink, plink, ping pong ball on metal noise+. In a quiet room, the noise bothers the heck out of me, and being the extremely nit picky person that I am, I am both annoyed and concerned. I was happy to find this thread because it assured me that I am not crazy, but that doesn't make the sound go away. It definitely seems to make the clink most of the time, and sometimes it seems like every 5-6 seconds or so. I am hesitant to download the program that has worked for some of you. I am not sure if I will do anything at this point about it, but I just wanted to keep the thread alive and let you all know that it is still happening with the newest MBP's. This experience has made my Mac conversion less exciting than I thought it would be. I already had the superdrive replaced at the Apple Store due to a harsh noise it made when ejecting a disc, and of course the genius bar dude could not hear the metallic clink due to the noise in the store. Just wanted to add my story to the mix.

It wasn't until I read this thread that I really paid much attention to noises and "pops" coming from the left side. Not to say I've never heard any noises, just nothing that alarmed and/or annoyed me. There's times I have low music on and times I sit in quiet, but more so with music or with other sounds.

I believe what I hear is:

gloom909 wrote:
1) The "electronic pop/crackle" from the speakers/line-out (as demonstrated a few posts above this one)

^ That is, the demonstration posted by NUeX: http://www.bluesalamand.de/noise.mov

My "pops" happen at about the same intervals and I really have to listen to hear them most of the time. Like I said, this thread really brought them to my fullest attention.

One thing though, when I was listening to the sound file above (at full volume): Are people actually hearing the high pitched "titinitus" like sounds that go on forever starting about midway in the file? Or did these sounds come about from the recording process somehow? I didn't notice anybody describe as such, just "high pitched pops". Because this would drive me crazy +for sure+ if my MBP was doing that. I couldn't go near it then. All I hear from mine is some subtle gear like movements and sounds like the pops in that file, only they seem far less pronounced.

So it's not a problem for me at all, there's no painful or irritating noises that are loud enough to distract me. My hearing is usually sensitive to such things, or at least that's what I always thought. It just sounds like normal operations in there. This is my first portable computer, bought it in May so I can't compare my experience with my MBP to other portables, Mac or otherwise. When I do take note of these subtle noises, I just figure it's due to closer proximity, as in more so than when I'm sitting in front of my desktop, which is an iMac G4.

It's a 15" 2.4 GHz Penryn MBP, w/ Hitachi HD.

Got my MBP last Friday, glad to find I am not crazy but bummed that others are hearing it and getting nowhere.
I would describe it as coming from under the left speaker area, and sounding like a can of soda being opened. Maybe something uncarbonated, or flat soda, as there is no fizzing noise. Just a slight criiick-TOCK! My wife says its like a pebble dropping into water. It happens randomly, maybe every 20 seconds to five minutes. There is no correlation with what I am doing on the computer, even happens while screen saver is on.
Just very bummed after scratching and saving $2000 to move up from a 500mhz winxp. I was so psyched up, of course I still am psyched, but a little let down that the dang noise is driving me NUTS!!

Wow and I thought it was just me! Yeah to add to the long list here, "me too". I will post back with more details about my machine and what I think after I read all of the posts. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of .

I swear, the ping noise is getting worse for me, more often than not, it does it multiple times in one minute, sometimes about every 5 seconds. When things are quiet, it drives me nuts, and I can even hear it over somewhat quiet music. Sorry if this is a wasted post, but I just felt like venting.

Does anyone else have the hard drive plink, ping, clink noise every few seconds like I am having?

hi all, i'm new to thread but i have bad news: my brand new Aluminum Macbook makes the pop noise. i have the fujitsu MHZ2160BH drive (160 GB). ****.

before this machine, i was the happy owner of two macbook pros (15"). they both had hitachi drives, a 120GB and a 160GB. no noise.

bwhile the problem seems to affect several drive brands, based on this thread, fujitsu might be the most common. i've had good luck with hitachis, so i may switch out.

I bought my Alu MacBook Tuesday and have this EXACT problem! My Penryn MBP never did this. I can't seem to get the HDAPM to run for me. Apple please help, it's soooooooo annoying in a quiet environment. I have the Fujitsu 160G HD.