Eject noise while sleeping

Sometimes when my macbook is in sleep mode, it makes the sound of trying to eject a disc, maybe once a minute or something. but there is no disc in the drive. This just started a few days ago. anybody know why?

Hi mallory,
Welcome to macbook forum.
Is that sound comes when the macbook wake up from sleep?
If that so, consider that normal.
But if in sleep mode, the optical sounded continuously yet the macbook still sleep, than it is not a normal behaviour.
Reset your PRAM / PMU to refresh your hardware behaviour.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88275
Good Luck.

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I started to notice a "popping" noise (about 1 Hz) when I got external speakers for my Mac Mini. It occurs when the Mac is sleeping and the external screen is on (but sleeping its own "sleep").
If I disconnect the analog audio out (from where the external speakers take their signal) the popping ends.
If I connect headphones to the same jack, I hear no popping in them.
If I hit the power button on the external screen and power it down, the popping ends. It will not return eventhough I power the screen on again.
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Seems we've isolated the problem to Electrical at least. Sounds like a Ground loop somewhere.
See this nice article...
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov04/articles/computerproblems.htm
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Barry is talking about the Hardware Test DVD that comes with the System Install DVD.
Try the following before using the Hardware Test DVD:
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There seems to be an issue with this happening. I've had an incident where my MacBook went to sleep on its own, and the fan came on fast and loud.
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There's another thread about this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4481424#4481424

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Yes, it's normal.
Apple released a firmware update a couple of years ago that was supposed to stop the drive from making that noise in certain models that were available then, but even the update didn't work all the time. The noise is completely harmless and not indicative of any problem. Just ignore it.

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Hi MariaLav, and a warm welcome to the forums!
What happens if there is a CD in it when that happens, does it eject?
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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Anonymous UUID: F22DEA9F-F3D7-E141-BC81-27F54620A33A
Sat Dec 27 09:48:40 2014
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff80105ff683): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x84, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.1.97/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2471
Backtrace (CPU 4), Frame : Return Address
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0xffffff80e19539f0 : 0xffffff80105ff683
0xffffff80e1953a80 : 0xffffff8010605913
0xffffff80e1953b70 : 0xffffff80106065e5
0xffffff80e1953bd0 : 0xffffff80105b6b4a
0xffffff80e1953ce0 : 0xffffff80105acd2c
0xffffff80e1953d10 : 0xffffff80105a9013
0xffffff80e1953d40 : 0xffffff8010a79eb0
0xffffff80e1953d60 : 0xffffff8010afe8e3
0xffffff80e1953dc0 : 0xffffff80105e8e54
0xffffff80e1953e10 : 0xffffff801053e91c
0xffffff80e1953e40 : 0xffffff80105235a3
0xffffff80e1953e90 : 0xffffff8010533e8d
0xffffff80e1953f10 : 0xffffff801060a142
0xffffff80e1953fb0 : 0xffffff801063ac66
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