Weird sound when starting up/wake up

A macbook bought sometime late last summer, have had a few problems, but all were software errors and are solved. but recently it has been making weird noises when you turn it on, or wake it up. the sounds seems to be coming from the disc drive area and sounds like its trying to eject a disk, it "trys" two or three times. it was dropped the day before and has a small little chip on the bottom right corner. does anyone know if they noises are normal? or if i should take it into the apple store to get it checked out?

Ummmmm... the computer was dropped and now makes noises? That's not normal. Have you tried to insert a dvd or cd into the optcal drive to see if it still works? Sounds to me like you'll be making a trip to the Apple store....but don't expect that they're going to warranty anything....they'll know it was dropped.

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