beeping sound - iMac

[hoody]

And no less annoying.

 

[MACGEM]

Possible source of beeps

I have a 27 inch iMac that is about one year old. Every 15 minutes or so, I hear a very faint single "beep" sound coming from the Mac. Everything is working fine. I contacted the Apple retailer that I purchased the machine from (who is also a certified repair center) and they said they have no idea what it could be. Any guesses?

Don't take this in the wrong way, but possibly (just possibly) it isn't the iMac beeping. I had a problem with my iMac beeping and went through all you've gone through and the Apple Care guys were stumped then too. Can't blame them. I have a remote extension telephone sitting on the desk next to my imac and it was the phone beeping - EXACTLY every 15 minutes. The sound carried behind the iMac and it sounded for all the world that it was coming from the iMac. The phone, if I remember correctly, was beeping every 15 minutes to let me know there was a voice message on the recorder which I had not yet listened to. I couldn't believe it and would have bet anyone that it was my computer beeping.

Hope this may be the easy solution for you.

macgem

 

[MACGEM]

oops. Sorry. Should have read further before responding with what I thought might be a solution.
Glad you got it resolved.
Macgem

 

[pm-r]

I wish Apple would use WD at least for their Spinning drives. I have 5 1TB WD Blacks and never an issue.


My Early 2010 has a 1TB Seagate. From the late 2009 and up you either have to get the OCW sensor kit or go with the same drive you took out. Not sure on the 2013 if OWC has a work around or not.

They do and did. But not the WD Black models which I also use and prefer.
Oddly my 2007 24" iMac that died with a high pitched beep and a klunk in the middle of an afternoon, had an Apple installed WD drive.

oops. Sorry. Should have read further before responding with what I thought might be a solution.
Glad you got it resolved.
Macgem

It doesn't hurt to have such a post repeated and maybe the user with the same problem might heed and digest the problem better…


And so far my 1TB Seagate HDD in my current 2011 27" iMac has skipped all the Apple Expanded Seagate Hard Drive Recalls… and fingers crossed.




- Patrick
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[dtravis7]

They do and did. But not the WD Black models which I also use and prefer.
Oddly my 2007 24" iMac that died with a high pitched beep and a klunk in the middle of an afternoon, had an Apple installed WD drive.

No drive is perfect and some WD's do fail but usually after a pretty long time. The drive in my 20" 2007 was a 320 WD and it died. I have seen a lot of 320GB WDs die after a few years. Seems to be a issue with that size WD. At the time I was broke so went against the advice I usually give and got a new 320 WD Blue. It died after a year so went with the 1TB black and it's been going for 3.5 years now. I do not trust the WD Green drives for a main drive.

I have noticed that the newer iMacs like from late 2009 and up have more Seagates.