Freezing upon start up and odd "chirping" noise from the base of my Macbook Pro summer 2011.

Sometimes when I start up my macbook pro it freezes and I get the "thinking" icon in place of my mouse. The only way to resolve this is to force shut down my computer. Also, when I put pressure on the bottom of my computer to lift it up I get this odd chirping noise.

That could be the stepping motor in the hard drive making noise. Sometimes the noise means nothing, other times it could mean a problem with the hard drive and it could fail soon. Could be a fan out of allignment. If you can backup your data, do so. If you an get to an Apple genius bar, take it in and have the techs run some tests to find out what the noise is.

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