Hi, I have a Mac Pro that is making an odd clicking sound, which I assume is coming from either a hard drive or a DVD drive. It seems to make noise for a few seconds and then is quiet for about 10 minutes. This pattern (on for 2 seconds, off for 10 minutes) seems to repeat itself all day, but there is enough other noise in my office (and I often get distracted or I am out of the office at times), so I can't swear that it never takes a break.
I am not a hardware expert, but it sounds sort of like a "normal" noise that might occur if the drive were trying to access something. The problem is that there is typically nothing going on at the time, at least nothing that I am intentionally doing. I looked at the Activity Monitor and did not see anything, though usually it has stopped making noise by the time I can bring that app to the front. I ran Disk Utility and did not notice anything out of the ordinary. I also ran SMART Utility and all the hard drives passed. Is there an easy way to check a DVD drive? Can anyone suggest a way to figure out what is causing this sound and how to correct it? I have had this Mac Pro for a few years and this just started a few weeks ago. I know that hard drives (and DVD drives) go bad, but if I'm going to replace one, I'd like to make sure I replace the one that is causing the problem. Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
