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superdrive sound at startup suddenly on 2010 mbp15

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stefan1975

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Apr 15, 2010
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hi all,

i've got my new mbp15 i5 for almost a week now and everything has been great so far.

however today suddenly the superdrive decided to make a 1-2 second 'seeking' sound at *every* startup. there is no dvd inserted nor have i used it even once in this week. it does this at the grey apple screen at the same time the apple "chime" sounds.

i am pretty sure it didn't to this up until today, i am not particularly concerned but why would it start doing this after a week on its own?

is it normal and can i turn it off again? i have seen a firmware update for this issue, but that was for 2009 mbp's ..... however since there is an update for this on earlier models made me wonder if it is indeed an issue and not normal behaviour.

i tried the reset tip on the apple support page, but to no avail. i think it was dead silent yesterday.

thanks!
 
I have this too. It's normal I think.

Maybe you can disable the Superdrive as a bootable option or something? ( i'm just doing a wild guess )
 
well googling around made it seem like it is 'normal'. /i just think it is odd that there is an update for this for 2009 mbp's and that i am 100% sure that up until this evening it has been dead silent, it is louder then the chime currently :)

i really dont think it is important enough to call apple about, but i still find it annoying .... a little.
 
I have had that noise in every PowerBook / MacBook I have owned. Don't know why it needs to do it but it does.
 
Thanks a lot, but as i wrote i tried the reset trick for the 2009 model to no avail......
 
well to make things even stranger and confirm that i wasn't imagining things ... today it was dead silent again during boot up, i just heard the chime but no sound whatsoever of the superdrive.

our imac at work is quiet too, but a coworkers mb also makes the drive seek sound at boot time.

guess i will be ignoring it from now on whatever it decides to do or dont at startup :)
 
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