Dv7-3188cl speaker pop

There is a pop noise when the computer boots up and it shuts down. The pop sounds as if it is coming from the speaker area above the keypad. I purchased the computer from Sam's Club. I returned it and the replacement one also has the pop. I am not positive if it is coming from the heard drive. HP had me flash the bios but that didn't do anything. Their answer is to send it in for repair.
I like the machine and would love to keep it if I knew it was a harmless pop. Does anybody have any insight? I found something on internet that said the sound could be coming from one of the 2 harddrives in the machine.

Updated the Bios on reccomendation of HP email support - updated to version F.1B (sp48570.exe 04/23/2010) - this has effectively solved the POPPING issue (along with audio driver update above)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-83170-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ca&...=
*note; this is for HP pavillion dv7-3170ca - your computer may have a different bios update

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