After updating steam, it causes strange noise ...

Hi everyone!
I've also got the common problem amongst at least MID 2011 Air - Steam - combo users that some weird noise is heard during steam launched. I've situeted the source and it's under the rightmost shift button. I've muted the computer, reinstalled the whole steam stuff after 2 months without them, hoping some update would come to fix it meanwhile, because it started when I let steam install an update, but it's still there and whining. I'm browsing the relevant sites and recently this problem doesn't seem a big one but I have no Apple Retail Store in the vicinity whatsoever to take my Air to. So would you please let me know if anyone found a trick or anything as a solution?
Thank you very much in advance.

I certainly understand. You probably just got it all set up and just like you wanted it to be - then this pops up.
I would still call Apple and see what they recommend. It sounds like a hardware fault to me. If that is the case, they will either replace the midplane or the LCD panel itself.
If you do have to take it in, you will want to be sure to clone your HD to a FireWire drive using a tool like SuperSuper, Carbon Copy Cloner, or LaCie's SilverKeeper. That way, you will have all of your data and settings on a HD so if it needs replacing you can restore back to like it was when you took it in.

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