mac startup issues, unusual alarm like sound, anyone familiar with it?

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mac startup issues, unusual alarm like sound, anyone familiar with it?

have an old macbook pro. since this morning i had trouble with turning it on as it was stuck on a black background.

gave it a SMC reboot and NVRAM reboot as suggested on forums i found. got rid of the black background and made it restart but there is another problem now, it makes this repeated sound at startup: https://imgur.com/a/U8TPl8x (please check video with sound here)

any advice/idea what it might be and what i can do about it?

Mac Pro

Posted on Jul 9, 2020 12:59 PM

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agnesaves Author

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Jul 9, 2020 2:40 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

It was the DVD, poked it with a paperclip and now i'm back at the old sound: https://imgur.com/a/WZVVw08

Thank you for your time and wish you all the best!

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Jul 9, 2020 1:23 PM in response to agnesaves

That sounds like a dozen rapid failed attempts to either take in or Eject something from the DVD reader.

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Jul 9, 2020 1:38 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

It might be the DVD, it stoped working a few years ago. From that point on, every time i would restrat it made a roll/click noise, just 1 short noise (like going forward and backward) if that makes any sense. I let it be as it didn't annoy me and i'm not using the DVD.

Do you think it just decided today to make this new noise and should i be worried?

Any idea how i could fix it?

Thank you!

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Jul 9, 2020 5:13 PM in response to agnesaves

Ah, that sound is very familiar. And nothing to worry about.

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mac startup issues, unusual alarm like sound, anyone familiar with it?

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