Hello everyone,
A few days ago my faithful 2012 MacBook Pro began making a noise previously unheard by my ears. I would describe it as a kind of "whirring" sound from the left half of the computer (somewhere by the QWERTY keys), but not in the hard drive area (I have a Samsung 860 EVO SSD) where I expected it to be. It's definitely incredibly concerning and I decided to immediately back up all files to my Time Machine/cloud as well as perform scans of the hard drive and the entire computer with TechTool Pro 12, which unfortunately revealed no issues whatsoever. I'm genuinely wondering whether there is actually something rolling around in the fan, as I cannot imagine anything else that could be spinning around in there and making a racket.
The sound tends to appear/disappear at a moment's notice. I usually notice it when I plug USBs into the device, but this is not always the case. I am wondering whether I should go ahead and take this computer offline and not rely on it anymore, or open it up and blast it with compressed air. It may or may not be on its last legs, but it has served me incredibly well, even now, as I type this post. I suppose worst comes to worst, if it dies on its own, I can always take out the SATA SSD and boot from it on a different Mac, so at least my working drive wouldn't be lost.
Thank you for your time and input!
A few days ago my faithful 2012 MacBook Pro began making a noise previously unheard by my ears. I would describe it as a kind of "whirring" sound from the left half of the computer (somewhere by the QWERTY keys), but not in the hard drive area (I have a Samsung 860 EVO SSD) where I expected it to be. It's definitely incredibly concerning and I decided to immediately back up all files to my Time Machine/cloud as well as perform scans of the hard drive and the entire computer with TechTool Pro 12, which unfortunately revealed no issues whatsoever. I'm genuinely wondering whether there is actually something rolling around in the fan, as I cannot imagine anything else that could be spinning around in there and making a racket.
The sound tends to appear/disappear at a moment's notice. I usually notice it when I plug USBs into the device, but this is not always the case. I am wondering whether I should go ahead and take this computer offline and not rely on it anymore, or open it up and blast it with compressed air. It may or may not be on its last legs, but it has served me incredibly well, even now, as I type this post. I suppose worst comes to worst, if it dies on its own, I can always take out the SATA SSD and boot from it on a different Mac, so at least my working drive wouldn't be lost.
Thank you for your time and input!