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Strange sound coming from my MacBook

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Euro-Canadian

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Apr 30, 2010
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Over the last two months I have been hearing this strange sound coming from my mac.
(the sound is uploaded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz0sMr9rm-A

Even if I do nothing with my macbook and its just sitting there it will make the ting sound randomly every 20-30-40 minutes or so.

The sound has been here for about a month now. I tried restarting my comp and it doesn't help. I also tried shutting it down and keeping it off for over 24hrs, and it didnt help either.

Below is a screenshot of the activities. Is there anything suspicious here?

Is there anything you need me to take a screenshot of to analyze this?

Thank You
 
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If you have QuickTime Player X (comes with Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7), open it, go to File > New Audio Recording and record and then trim and then save the file and then upload it somewhere or compress it via Finder and attach it as .zip to your next post (max file size is 1.4 MB or so).

Mac 101: QuickTime Player

And when in Activity Monitor, though it will probably not help, unless the sound comes from your speakers:
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Have a look at Activity Monitor (Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.
Also check the "System Memory" tab to see what your "Page ins:", "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" are.

image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Acitivty_Monitor.png

Further reading:
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If the sound comes from your speakers, look into Dashboard and see, if one of the widgets you have produces a sound.
 
It does sound a little like the "Blow" sound effect. Go to System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects and check the sounds and if one of them is similar to yours.
Have you checked Dashboard yet? And what about Activity Monitor? You can print the process' list, but make sure to select SHOW ALL PROCESSES and sort by PROCESS NAME.
 
I checked the effects and nothing in there sounds like the sound I hear regurarly.

In the dashboard I only have the clock, weather and the post-it note so I dont think it's that either.

However, I did do the print of all preferences and below it is. Hopefully that is something visibly wrong in here that can be fixed.

Thank You
 
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