MBP gives ticking sound.

My MBP's [probably Hard-disk] is making some ticking sound. Why?
I showed my MBP to an Apple Reseller, who told me, that it is in warrenty, and he can't do anything, now I had another problem, when-ever I lift it or keep it down from some height, there is an tick sound, what should I do?

As suggested in the last post of the discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2326286?start=0&tstart=0
The sound has nothing to do with the hard drive nor the battery charging. I can hear it even when the MBP is off and disconnected from power supply.
I've oppened my MBP few times recently for memory upgrade, and noticed there were some springs comming from the electric circuit (for the ground, i think) that touch the bottom case. I suspect that those springs are responsible for those clicks you hear when the bottom case is slightly bended.

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