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May 29, 2012My iMac roars like a lion from time to time; truly frightening! This sound (which just happened as I was typing this) is followed by a "pop" sound.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 27, 2012I get a random door bell sound at random times, even if the IMac is off. What do I do?
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Mac OS X (10.6.6)
MacBook Pro :: Random Popping Noise?
Jul 3, 2008I just received my new MacBook Pro (2.4GHz) to replace my older CD Macbook Pro from 2006 which was suffering fan problems.
My new MBP is great and faster, with the exception of a really annoying "popping" sound that is coming from the left hand side of the laptop. It's sporadic and might happen every few minutes, or every 30 sec. or varying lengths of time in-between "pops."
I searched the forum hear and didn't come up with virtually anything at all, but the Apple Support Discussions had several threads on the topic, most pointing to the Hard Drive and the sound possibly coming from the heads parking on the disk.
Could anyone offer any advice on the subject? I just got this brand new MBP from AppleCare and really don't want to have to go through all the work on getting another replacement if this sound is normal.
MacBook Pro :: Random Delete Noise Every Once In A While
Feb 10, 2010On the MacBook Pro I'm using, every once in a while I hear the sound effect that plays when you delete something...I'm not sure what it's called (a sort of poofing noise). It goes away when I uncheck "Play user interface sound effects" in preferences, so I'm guessing it's not a bug. Any way to check what it's coming from? I have Firefox open almost all the time, but other applications change and the sound doesn't go away.
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This is happening without a disc in the drive, and seems to make the noise every 15-20 seconds. It's not that loud, but loud enough to drive me crazy in a quiet environment.
I have Win XP installed on bootcamp, so I logged into windows to see if the clicking was present in a different OS (to rule out a driver issue in OSX). The issue is exactly the same in windows.
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MacBook Pro :: Random Static Noise Coming From Speakers
Oct 8, 2010I have a Macbook Pro MC666ll/a. It is a core i7 15" with the AG screen. The issue I am experiencing is a random static noise coming from my speakers every now and then. If i have external speakers plugged in then the sound comes from the external speakers. Is this normal?
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Apr 23, 2012I am getting random multiple freezes of programs and finder 10.6.8 imac11,1, 2.66 intel core i5, 27inch requiring a restart. Doesn't seem to matter what the programs are running and sometimes can't get a program to completely quit with force quit.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Nov 12, 2009I was watching a DVD movie on this laptop yesterday, and when I turned my laptop and this morning to continued watching, the DVD randomly ejected. It's not scratched, and no it's not pirated. I tried different brands of CDs and DVDs, and my laptop just spits them out.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Occasionally There Are Random Horizontal Lines On Display?
Jun 14, 2012Occasionally there are random horizontal lines on my display. Computer sometimes freezes or screen turns black requiring a hard restart.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Random Menus Keep Popping Up
Feb 6, 2012Why do random menus keep popping up and what can I do to prevent them from doing it?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Intel Mac :: 27" Displaying Random Coloured Squares On The Screen?
Jun 11, 2012How many Mac users have suffered from the problem of small coloured squares appearing at random on the iMac desktop? They can be wiped by dragging a window over them but they will eventually reappear. I have discovered at least three other threads where this issue has been discussed but our local Apple store is claiming that Apple haven't declared it as a legacy fault. It would be interesting to hear how others have been treated when presenting Apple with this fault. At first they thought it was the GPU but they now think that it is either the logic board OR the logic board AND the GPU together!! Being charged between £480 and £650 to repair a machine that is less than 18 months old is a bit much from a company that continually boasts about the quality of its products.
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MacBook
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Random Bleeping Sounds On My Computer
Feb 15, 2012What are the random bleeping sounds on my computer?
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Random Applications Quit Unexpectedly?
Mar 8, 2012Sometimes random applications quit unexpectedly, and sometimes the Finder keeps quitting and restarting repeatedly. Last time this happened after waking the machine from hibernation, and Skype and Chrome quit. Before other applications has quit as well, such as MATLAB and Spotify. Anyone got any idea what might be amiss? I've got the newest version of everything that I'm running.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Chrome Loads Random Webpages On It
Mar 25, 2012When using Chrome 17.0.963.83, on Mac OSX 10.7.3, on my Mac Book Pro, Chrome will sometimes load very RANDOM pages. It may occur when I click on a link, ANY link, or it may occur when I'm doing nothing on a page.
A few examples:
When I'm scrolling up and down on any website - Could be a news website, could be Facebook, suddenly Chrome will start loading a completely random page - It might be about a vacation deal, or a new software launch, anything.And yes, I'm not accidentally clicking on stuff... It just loads on it's own. Another example is when I'm not doing anything.
For example, I might be staring at a graph of Insights on Facebook, or looking at an image on the web, and my hands are off the keyboard.I would have been on the page for anything from 1minute to 5minutes, and there is no "loading circle, meaning the page has fully loaded. Then POOF the loading circle appears, and next thing I know I'm redirected somewhere. Often when this happens, I simply do a double finger swipe backwards, to go Back, and just ignore the problem. However it's getting quite annoying, and I can't help but think it may be some form of Malware?
Now the thing is - I went to do some reading, and even from the Clam anti-virus website, it says that there are currently NO viruses for Mac at all.So I don't understand - I only have two extensions on Chrome, one of which is the bit-ly extension, the other being Flash 10.I have since disabled the bit-ly extension, but the problem is still persisting.
Intel Mac :: Random Hang Ups While Attempting To Backup External Hard Drive
Apr 4, 2012I've had an external 1.5TB MyBook for around five years now and recently decided to backup/replace it with a 2.0TB MyBook. However I'm having a lot of trouble finding a simple, painless way to copy all my files from one to the other. The hard drive is simply an external host for my iTunes library, which contains nearly 140,000 files. Initially I tried copying the entirety of my Music folder over, but for some reason it hit a hang at 96.58GB/947.06GB and has never progressed. I then attempted to do smaller transfers and got about 1/4 of the way through my library doing so, but I've experienced more hangs along the way.
Can't cancel the copy operation once they occur, so they just sit there on my screen. I attempted to restart my computer but Finder won't allow me to shut down without first canceling the copy processes. All of the guides I have found on the internet, including the Apple website, seem to indicate that this is the only way to do things, which is beginning to really frustrate me since it also seems to be a method that doesn't work very well; in fact, it seems to succeed mostly by random chance. Is there something I could do to ensure this doesn't keep happening, preferably so that I could go back to my original idea of copying the entire folder over at once?
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iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Random Eject Like Rumors From Super-drive?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Kernel Panic When Watching Videos (and Other Random Times)?
Mar 27, 2012I'm aware of the Airport issue mentioned on these forums (and have tried the kext fix for that without any luck). I have KPs when watching 4+ minute long videos on Youtube (have no issue using iMovie for longer videos or watching videos from my own harddrive), sometimes when the screensaver is on or shortly after the computer goes unidle, and sometimes for no apparent reason. I've already had 2-3 KPs in the past 4 hours. This is my first Mac and not at all what I was expecting. Â
Sometimes the screen will flicker rapidly, other times I will get a black screen, pink screen, or the screen will "glitch" and move halfway to the left (right is now on the left and left on the right). I can sometimes delay the crash if I pause the video (the screen starts to twitch or have "lightning" flashes across parts of it) but it will eventually crash anyway. Â
I usually use Firefox but have had the same crash in Safari so it's not browser-related as far as I can tell.Â
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Sound Muted For Split-second At Random Intervals (Across All Apps)?
May 5, 2012This annoying bug is driving me crazy when I'm listening to music or watching a youtube video.It seems as if some process is interfering with sound output. I've already tried eliminating the problem by closing all apps, uninstalling perian, quicksilver, to no avail. Is there anyway to see which processes are using sound output at any given time?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Name Of Hard Drive Changing With Words Chosen At Random
Jun 21, 2012I have iMac (2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4, and I noticed that name of my hard drive has been changing on strange letters or some words chosen by random. It's quite strange. I have other apple computers and I have never experienced such things. I can't find any logical explanation of this "activity". Sometimes it happens after sleeping mode, sometimes there is no activity from my side or from OS. This is definitely not because of "accidentally pressed an icon of my HD and then pressed some keys" issue.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
IMac :: Intel Fan Noise - How To Fix It
Oct 17, 2007I get some fan noise occassionally on new Intel iMac .. is this normal ? Sometimes their is no noise .. apart from this everything is working fine ... look forward to some replies in regards to fan noise.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Getting Fan Noise From Bottom Of It?
Jun 2, 2012When i use my imace im getting fan noise from bottom of imac i never expect this issus from apple product?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Intel Mac :: Computer Fan Is Making Noise?
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iMac, iOS 4.3.3
