Macbook Pro optical drive noise issue

[underminedsk]

Hey,

I own a new MBP (October 2008 model) and just two days ago my optical drive has started making weird noises whenever I bring my computer out of sleep. It makes a noise like it is ejecting a disk three times, about once a second for 3 seconds.

This is really annoying, especially when I use my computer to take notes during lecture because everyone looks to see who is the douchebag with the noisy computer disrupting class...

Any suggestions?

thanks

 

[underminedsk]

Never mind, I just put a CD into the drive and ejected it and it has seemed to fix the problem. Still weird though. Anyone know why it happened?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

My drive has been making the sound randomly (as well as on reboots, when I start at Parallels VM, and when I open Disk Utility.) This started happening after I installed the 10.5.6 update.

 

[ox4dboy]

I hear the same noise every time Parallels starts - it's as if Parallels is looking for a CD to boot from or eject before starting?

Surprised not many other people have posted about this.

 

[jsl1360]

i had the same problem

I download whatever the update was to remove the noise. it removed the noise but only from wake up from sleep not on start up. then one day i dropped my phone on my computer from a height of about two inches and the noise came back. I inserted a cd into the drive just on suspicion and for the sake of messing around - and the noise was gone after ejecting the cd. it came back once but i did this and it worked again. hopefully the noise just wont come back. btw, any cd will work i just used a 360 game and i hope it works for everyone i dread the fear of taking my computer into the store and seeing it taken from me to be "worked on"