Can't login to mac - keyboard issue?

Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me with this...I can't get an appointment at an apple store until a week away.
When I go to login into my MacBook I start typing my password DVD the keyboard seems to start entering letters of its own. Plus when I am able to type my password in and press enter the computer won't recognise it (capslock is off). It also makes a continuous beeping/drumming noise when I go to switch it on. I have no idea where to start with this...could it be a keyboard issue? Or a virus? Also I have FileVault enabled as well.
Would appreciate any advice!
Thank you

This is probably a hardware problem. Clattering noises are usually either a bad CD or DVD or a bad optical drive, or possibly a disk drive or fan hardware problem, or some other hardware confusion.
Something other than the usual startup chime can indicate the hardware tests have found an error.
Make sure you have no CD or DVD inserted into the drive.
Remove all external devices — USB hubs, storage, keyboards, or otherwise — and test again.
Can you boot the MacBook using the recovery partition or boot into safe mode?
I'd also try an external keyboard, if you have one available.
I'd normally suggest using target disk mode as a way to try and get a current backup of your disk data, but AFAIK your particular MacBook model lacks both FireWire and Thunderbolt ports, which means that's not (again, AFAIK) an available option here.

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