Why ismy mac book pro making a beeping sound every few minutes?

My mac book pro 13" is making a strange sound evefy few minutes. It sounds like a rock being dropped in a pond. I replaced a faulty hard drive recently and I wonder if it is related to that issue.

A rock being dropped in a pond is not a beeping sound. Which one is it?

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Noise makers on a MBP are the fan(s), hard drive and DVD drive. Run an Apple hardware test and see if it picks up any problems:
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Rachel2014ON wrote:
Oh! I see, Thank you.
I made a mistake... I took Ontario, California as Ontario Canada....
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My MacBook pro turned on fine until here was a bunch of numbers showing on the screen and told me to shut it down so I did. When I waited 15 seconds I tried turning it on again and now every time I try to turn it on it makes a beeping sound and won't show a screen. It will just keep beeping until I turn it back off. I have only had it for two weeks so idk what the problem is.

The FINDER HELP section titled 'If you hear beeps when your computer starts up' suggests that you take your MBP to an Apple Store or an authorized service facility. The following leads you to an Apple Support article germain to your problem: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547.
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I have a macbook pro 2,4 GHz Intel core 2 duo with 4 Go 1067 MHz DDR3 running with Mac OS X LION 10.7.4.
I have a recurent Beep every 40 seconde (approxymately) and this even if there is nothing as power source. I took off the battery and the mac is no connected to a power source.
Please help me.
thanks

Rachel2014ON wrote:
Oh! I see, Thank you.
I made a mistake... I took Ontario, California as Ontario Canada....
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