Sound coming from my Macbook

[Macbook2.0]

Hey guys, I have a problem with my Mac that I'm a bit concerned about that I just noticed today. About every 10 seconds, there is a noise coming from the front right part of my computer just below the arrow keys. It sounds like a click similar to what you might hear on a hard drive that is just turned on. Any ideas what this might be?

My computer is 7 months old, MacBook, 2.0 Core 2 Duo, 80 gb hdd, 1gb ram.

Thanks!

 

[beetyjoose]

Make sure you have the proper firmware updates. There are some updates related to fan/heating issues that may fix this. However, if it is definitely a clicking noise, I'm not sure. Is it coming from you CD drive? Is the drive working correctly?

 

[Macbook2.0]

It's coming from the right front so I am worried that my hard drive is going up. A bit disappointing after only 7 months but at least it won't be outrageous to fix myself. So long as this doesn't occur 2 times a year...

 

[jamesx]

yea it sounds like a hard drive. back up your data!

 

[Macbook2.0]

I'm backing it all up now to a network drive but it actually hasn't been making the noise anymore. I'm hoping maybe it was just overheated or something.

 

[JokerDev]

pretty sure I have the same problem.
Every once in a while I get a clicking sound
It goes away and has only happened 2-3 times since December

 

[iKitten]

I've had this happen also. The last time was after a bad dvd (I don't know if it was scratched or what) got stuck in the superdrive. The noise stopped two days later.

 

[knightlie]

My MacBook regularly clicks the hard drive in general use, both it's original drive and the new one I've fitted. I just assume it's OSX doing things, but hard drives often click around on their own, doing heat calibration and stuff.

 

[M769]

Yeah it happened to me too ....I can't believe it.
i thought it was just my macbook .
What could it be ?
Could it be the overheat ?