Recent content by mackeral

Nope, its not the start up, it comes from the hard drive. It sounds like bzzz bzzz, as though the harddrive is starting up again. Sometimes it makes this sound but doesnt wake up. So I have to press and hold the button again until it happens again and the screen turns on. The screen is how I...

I will try loading dashboard today and I see if it does anything. The sound the computer made was not affected by the system volume and it wasn't any kind of alert sound. Wouldn't sounds made by dashboard be affected by the system volume?

Nope, there was no cell phone near by either times it happened. Just now I started up from the Install disk and did a hardware diagnostic with the extended setting on and it found no trouble. Fsck found no trouble, and the smart status on the harddrive is verified, which I gather is normal...

I was just wondering if it is normal that the only way to wake my macbook pro from sleeping is it click and hold the power button, sometimes more than once. Upon waking the hard drive makes a big sound and the computer comes to life. I have a macbook pro 2.53GHZ unibody 300GB HD 4GB ram bought...

There were no Peripherals attached when it happened. It happened again today but only after I started up Safari and it stopped when I quit it. I did a web search for safari beeping, and found some other users who have reported a similar problem but these were all at least a year old and there...

My Mac started beeping at me the other day and I am hoping that somebody can tell me why as it was definitely abnormal beeping. I have a macbook pro 15 inch aluminum unibody that was the latest model when I bought it back in January this year. It came with 4GB of ram and a 300GB HD. I have...