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MacBook Making Loud Noise

I've had a White MacBook (2.0GHz with 2 gig of RAM added) for about a month and a half now (it's a week 25 model), and have been very, very happy with it. About a week or two ago, however, I started noticing a loud buzzing sound coming from the MacBook that almost always occurs during processor-intensive tasks (i.e. photoshop, Roxio Toast encoding, downloading, etc.). Is this normal?

More Info.: The noise is particularly loud; I can hear it outside of a closed room. I have read about both the "mooing" and the power-source buzzing issues and determined that it is neither of these problems. My issue occurs regardless of whether the MacBook is plugged in, and I have never experienced the "mooing" problem.

For all I know, this simply could be normal...but I just wanted to ask all of you to make sure. Thanks.

White MacBook 2.0GHz, 2 gig RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

White MacBook 2.0, 2g RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 13, 2006 7:19 PM

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Stargazer Alchemist

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Posted on Aug 13, 2006 7:25 PM

Two of my friends have had iBooks for a about a year or two now and none of them have ever made any noise like that.

I know my girlfriends Toshiba laptop made a very loud noise after about 30 minutes of operation, which was diagonised as bad berrings in the fan... could that be a possiblity with you?

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Aug 28, 2006 7:09 PM in response to Chris3495323

I didn't get to this thread in time to save you the trouble of reinstalling.

It is almost certainly a hardware problem.

For what it's worth, I've just replaced a Toshiba 30GB hard drive in a client's iBook G4 that began to buzz when warm. (Of course, that drive also began to stop working while it was buzzing.)

Dunno what brand Apple's using in the MacBooks, but you can find out in System Profiler (click About this Mac then More Info).

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Aug 28, 2006 7:31 PM in response to Rick Auricchio

Just to confirm, you believe it's the hard drive? (I've been led to believe that it's either the fan or hard-drive; I have now completely ruled out that its a software problem after reinstalling OSX and also after experiencing the problem in bootcamp).

Another question: If I replace the hard drive myself... do I void the warranty?

White MacBook 2.0Ghz, 2gig RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

SaMHaM

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Oct 24, 2006 8:19 AM in response to Chris3495323

My macbook makes a crackling noise a lot? Does anyone have any idea what it could be? It makes it a quite often. Also when i shut it down, quite often it doesnt shut down properly and the battery is completely drained and then even when plugging it in i have issues turning it back on??? Any help would be great! I just got it in September so it is fairly new! Thanks

MacBook Making Loud Noise