Grinding noise at bootup

Hello,
This laptop: dv7t-2000 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC - about 7 months out of warranty, has started to make a fairly loud grinding noise at bootup. (the noise seems to let up as it reaches the desktop.
I did notice a momentary "pink" looking screen once right before it reached the windows desktop.
The hard drive test from the BIOS reported "passed".
Help appreciated as to what to look for now.

yeah do a search on this forum and refer to all the other posts about the bug with the radio coming on with windows when it is supposed to be muted.
go to Volume Control > and depending on your system mute either the Radio or Aux audio inputs. then when you start and close the radio program it will mute/unmute this setting automatically

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