Whenever I boot my macbook up, it makes a loud rattling noise. On the upper right side. Not sure what it is. It just started a few days ago.
Everytime I boot my macbook up, it make this really loud noise. Usually you hear the disc drive (or whatever it is) booting up, but this is ten times that and it doesn't very good! Not sure what's going on...
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When I use terminal and type this:
drutil eject
I believe the DVD drives makes the odd noise I heard when I booted the laptop up.
Any thoughts?
I'm guessing that means my fan/hardrive are actually OK then, and it's probably the mechanism in the DVD drive that is causing problems?
I'm almost certain there's no DVD stuck in there?
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Shut down the notebook. Tap away at f10 as you start the notebook to enter the bios menu. Under the Advanced or Diagnostic tab you should find the facility to run tests on both the Hard Drive and Memory. Post back with the details of any error messages.
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Please help!!!Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
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Boot in safe mode. Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
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