The 'popping' sound

I have the problem with strange intermittent small popping sound (which has been mentioned in other posts)
It comes from the top hand left corner of the keyboard and seem to have noting to do with the speaker (it’s occurring regardless of volume and persists even with the speakers at mute)
The problem is easily cured in OSX by opening and closing ‘Photo Booth’ after a restart.
But this very annoying problem is also present when I run XP via Boot Camp, opening and closing iSight doesn’t help there, any suggestions???
Tavs
MBP 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
MBP 2.16 Mac OS X (10.3.6)

The notorious popping sound that seems to be prolific is DRIVING ME CRAZY! Does ANYONE have any other ideas? I've tried all of the "fixes" from all of the posts made so far but it just won't go away. I don't want to take my machine to
Apple because I'd develop serious separation anxiety (and it doesn't look like that helps either by the sound of other's experience). HELP!

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Zahmatra wrote:
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