Jackhammer noise under keyboard :S

Roughly at the top right corner of my macbook pro, there is a noise like a jackhammer, and tilting the macbook differnt ways causes it to grow and fall, but regardless it is always there. What could this be? It is roughly top right, could just be right, but i don't htink its the optical drive. It kinda sounds like when your hard drive is about to fail bad, but im not sure where abouts it is mounted
Thanks for any help

Well Takumi, it's a busted fan. I have a box that came from apple to send mine in for the same reason but on the left side I'm waiting a couple of days before sending it because I have to finish a job.
I'm also somewhat upset about it... It already happened to a 1.67 PB I had some months ago. I guess I have to agree that Apple has to put more emphasis in QC.
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