Very weird noise...

I was using photoshop on Windows with my MacBook Pro and all of a sudden I hear this noise that sounds like it's loading something. Most of you know that with a MacBook Pro that when loading takes place you can hear it in the centre / left side. Usually the only noise that is coming from the right is when you insert a CD. I have no CD's in my drive and I never heard this sound before. It just randomly started happening, never moved / bumped my MacBook, was just using photoshop.
The noise would get louder then it would slow down stop for 5 seconds, then go back up... and it's freaking annoying.
Should I System Restore or something? I have no idea what to do.

For some reason it's not letting me edit so I keep having to reply. Anyways, when it's not making the weird noise from the right side, it now makes this deep quiet noise in the centre, it sounds like an idle engine, literally. What is happening to my laptop all of a sudden!?

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This goes on and on every few minutes......it's friggen killing me.
Anyone have an any ideas? Maybe a hard drive dying? Thing is, I never heard this before this weekend.

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So, my sister has Satellite C870-1EX and she's using new Audio Mixer with intergrated sound card that sends sound through USB cable to the computer (computer recognizes it as external sound card/device). This is the device: http://alesis.com/multimix8usbfx .
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Here's the catch. I used the same equipment with same settings on my computer and ... no hissing noise at all. The thing is, any setting we tried, that hissing noise stays the same, nothing changes.
Even if you pre-apply some sound FX that should either boost or reduce any kind of noise in the signal that is sent to the USB port of the computer, that hissing noise stays the same.
What worries me is that something is wrong with the hardware of my sister's laptop.
The noise does not appear if we use, for example, microphone that uses 3,5mm jack or laptop's built-in mic while recording stuff in the same recording session with same software and similar settings (considering some must be different due to different input).
However, the noise appears if we use any external USB recording device on any of her ports.
Windows on her laptop were reinstalled some time ago (now she's on Windows 7), but the problem appeared few weeks later.
As I said before, drivers are all there and up-to-date as well.
So, I'm hoping one of you will come up with a (simple) software sollution ... and hopefully we won't need to take her computer back to the shop.
However, as far as it seems now, the latest is more likely to happen.
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A friend of mine has had an similar issue using an DJ Controller : Traktor Kontrol S4
It was not a noise but he noticed some stutter and audio drop-outs.
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So, my sister has Satellite C870-1EX and she's using new Audio Mixer with intergrated sound card that sends sound through USB cable to the computer (computer recognizes it as external sound card/device). This is the device: http://alesis.com/multimix8usbfx .
Few weeks ago she started noticing a very weird noise (listen to the file attached bellow, I'm talking about that very annoying hissing noise). Firstly, obviously, we tested every single setting on the Audio Mixer. Then, we got new USB cable and swapped it. After that we also took down the whole equipment, checked all cables, untangle them if needed, swapped power source, checked different recording software etc etc. None of that helped. Here's the catch. I used the same equipment with same settings on my computer and ... no hissing noise at all.
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That doesn't appear to be a US model, and this is the forums for Toshiba USA. You may want to contact Toshiba in your region. If it's a European model, you could check the Toshiba Europe forums.
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Esther,
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Message Edited by AbsintheSyringe on 01-25-2009 05:47 PM

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First of all, i would like to apologize because of my english, is not very good. My native language is Spanish.
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