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DDar

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Dec 9, 2007
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Okay, well yesterday I brought my MBP back from school and noticed that when it's running it makes a wierd sort of mechanical crackle... It seems to be coming from the left side, I think maybe the upper left side...

If this were any other computer I wouldn't be that worried, but it didn't used to do it before... Also, though it's not really loud it gets a bit annoying sometimes...

Does anybody know what it is? Should I be worried?
 
could be that one of the fans are dying. Try using smcfancontrol and ramp up the fan speed to see if the noise gets louder.
 
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