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Clicking noises on MacPro
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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 515098"><p>Pop in your optical drive the restore disk that came with your Mac and restart holding down the <em>D</em> key. This is the <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081" target="_blank"><strong>Apple Intel-based Macs How to</strong></a>. In your case, ask for the "extended testing". This will check the health of all the hardware components in your Mac Pro. </p><p></p><p>Now I'm thinking you'll want to check your internal hard drive. Restart, holding down the <em>C</em> key this time, just like if you were going to reinstall. Once you are fully booted, instead of asking for a reinstall and choosing options in the installer window, look in the menubar, there should be an item there for Disk Utility or something similar. Once you have located and launched Disk Utility, choose your hard drive icon in the left hand sidebar and click on verify disk and repair the disk if necessary.</p><p></p><p>Clicking sounds can sometimes mean the hard drive is about to fail. Which is odd because of you have a Mac Pro, it isn't all that old. But then again, hard drives do fail on new machines. It's not common but it does happen.</p><p></p><p>If nothing in the tests give you any idea of what is going on, take it in to get it checked in case it really is failing hard drive and try to make a backup as soon as possible just to be safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 515098"] Pop in your optical drive the restore disk that came with your Mac and restart holding down the [I]D[/I] key. This is the [URL="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081"][B]Apple Intel-based Macs How to[/B][/URL]. In your case, ask for the "extended testing". This will check the health of all the hardware components in your Mac Pro. Now I'm thinking you'll want to check your internal hard drive. Restart, holding down the [I]C[/I] key this time, just like if you were going to reinstall. Once you are fully booted, instead of asking for a reinstall and choosing options in the installer window, look in the menubar, there should be an item there for Disk Utility or something similar. Once you have located and launched Disk Utility, choose your hard drive icon in the left hand sidebar and click on verify disk and repair the disk if necessary. Clicking sounds can sometimes mean the hard drive is about to fail. Which is odd because of you have a Mac Pro, it isn't all that old. But then again, hard drives do fail on new machines. It's not common but it does happen. If nothing in the tests give you any idea of what is going on, take it in to get it checked in case it really is failing hard drive and try to make a backup as soon as possible just to be safe. [/QUOTE]
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