Howling on my macbook

I am very new to mac's and I have had a howling noise on my mac twice now since the weekend, its been really loud but I don't know what it means, can anyone enlighten me please?

Many Thanks

Danielle

more a sound from a fan that goes on and spins really fast or something from your speakers and maybe a sound from a new app?

That would be the CPU fan, which increases speed when there are processor intensive thingees going, thus the noise. It shouldn't be on all the time (like if you're just browsing the 'net, or doing email type things) but every now and then it'll fire up when something make the CPU work. Usually Safari for some reason, or if I'm encoding audio.

Perfectly normal unless it's on all the time. If it is on all the time, go in your Applications folder and under the Utilities folder there will be a program called Activity Monitor. Launch that and it should tell you what application is working your CPU the most.

It was a howling from a widget I have called Flappie apparently it howls like a wolf when its night time, thanks for your help

hehe, nice one

oh, that's funny.

I saw that widget, but didn't download it - glad I didn't - I didn't know it HOWLS!!

Glad you figured it out. Welcome, and enjoy!

Lol Awesome! I want my Macbook to howl!

Heh, heh...that's pretty funny. I might have to d/l that one just to freak my girlfriend out.

Laydee Danielle said:

I am very new to mac's and I have had a howling noise on my mac twice now since the weekend, its been really loud but I don't know what it means, can anyone enlighten me please?

Many Thanks

Danielle

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Check your firmware version, issues have been fixed in the monitoring code of older Macbooks which affects the fans.

Although as proven before, Its not the fans gilesjuk...

~~ TS ~~

i haven't had the howling in my macbook yet. but i'm thinking about watching wolfen.

If they have Hitachi (used to be IBM) drives then they make silly noises. Kinda like a cat meowing or a rusty sign swinging. The heads move off the disk when idle to stop damage.

eric said:

i haven't had the howling in my macbook yet. but i'm thinking about watching wolfen.

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Love both those movies myself. Also, Wolf (with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and James Spader) is a pretty good wolf flick, too.

gilesjuk said:

If they have Hitachi (used to be IBM) drives then they make silly noises. Kinda like a cat meowing or a rusty sign swinging. The heads move off the disk when idle to stop damage.

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what TS was refering to was that you seemed to not have read the rest of the thread - she figured out what it was. an app that actually howled. not hardware.