17in Macbook pro making funny sound.

I have a 4 month old macbook pro and when I move it at any time sometimes it will make a funny tinking sound. It sounds like it is coming from the upper left hand side of the keyboard. If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it. It doesnt seem like it is phasing its performance at all but I figured id catch it before it got worse or something happened.

It's strange that they did repairs that are apparently unrelated to the reason you brought it in-I wonder if they ran a hardware test or if a work order got mixed up. This sounds more like a repair for something else.
At any rate, you can try a SMC reset to see if that fixes the keyboard or sleep problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US
You could also try running SMART Utility to see if it sees any hard drive problems:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/smartutility.html
You can download the demo and run it several times for free.
However, if you hear the tink when the machine is turned off, it sounds like some sort of mechanical issue rather than something specifically associated with hard drive failure. Possibly it is just some characteristic of the machine itself and not indicative of anything. If so, the AASP should have been able to tell why it was doing that and explained it to you.
Might not hurt to run the extended version of the AHT just to check out the repairs and make sure all is really well with it.
Good luck!

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