macbook hard drive? noise

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I don't often switch my macbook off, just log out and close it. Now though whenever I open up the screen even before I log on I can here the hard drive (I think ?) spinning and it keeps on doing so after log in and is still spinning away merrily now a half hour or so later. Any ideas how I can stop it happening?
 
stephenb said:
I don't often switch my macbook off, just log out and close it. Now though whenever I open up the screen even before I log on I can here the hard drive (I think ?) spinning and it keeps on doing so after log in and is still spinning away merrily now a half hour or so later. Any ideas how I can stop it happening?
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Take it into an apple store, sounds like summat's poorly there :(
 
May seem stupid, but you haven't got a CD/DVD in the drive by any chance.
 
stephenb said:
Not cooling either as it does it from the moment you lift the screen even before I log in.
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I would hazard a guess (not knowing much about mac's) that they have cooling fans running all the time - bearing in mind that it's a new noise, maybe the fans have always spun but now they are making noise you can hear them?
 
You can check the fans out by using the SMC fan control app, to check out the fans. It will tell you the temp and the RPM of the fans. That way you can eliminate them from the investigation.

Just a tip. Back up anything that is important, just in case it's the HD going bad ( hopefully not)

link for SMC

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049
 
Stephen,

Is it a constant spinning noise? There is a software fault that can allow the computer to keep accessing the CD/DVD drive when the lid is closed and it will try and do this even if the drive is empty. Mrs Cowasaki's macbook did it too. When it happens just stick your ear to it and see if it is coming from the optical drive.
 
cowasaki said:
Stephen,

Is it a constant spinning noise? There is a software fault that can allow the computer to keep accessing the CD/DVD drive when the lid is closed and it will try and do this even if the drive is empty. Mrs Cowasaki's macbook did it too. When it happens just stick your ear to it and see if it is coming from the optical drive.
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Or eject the drive, that should stop it spinning.
 
OutLore said:
Or eject the drive, that should stop it spinning.
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The Mac's ejrct mechanism is under software control and the fault causes the eject mechanism to try and eject a disc that is not even in the drive. So this will happen whether there is a disc in the drive or not. If is does sound like it could be a disc in the drive trying to be ejected stick a disc in and see if that makes a difference then eject it and see if the fault is still there. Then get back with the result.
 
cowasaki said:
The Mac's ejrct mechanism is under software control and the fault causes the eject mechanism to try and eject a disc that is not even in the drive. So this will happen whether there is a disc in the drive or not. If is does sound like it could be a disc in the drive trying to be ejected stick a disc in and see if that makes a difference then eject it and see if the fault is still there. Then get back with the result.
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Ah, so it's a drive slot and not a drive tray?
 
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