When installation is complete, please run Software Update again, and install SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0.
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.
More info and download link (3.36 MB) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Done – but still get the noise. Uh?!
Mmmm… silent snappiness!
Mea culpa… did the Superdrive Update and of course it works.
MY MBP is even more wonderful, that sound irritated me.
I while ago I was going to record a variety of the different tones they make on different Macs..and make a song for Jobs saying please take it away, now I don’t have to. One day we’ll say ‘remember when?..’
This Mertz guy is starting to hack me off.
He gets the skinny on everything!
— R. Riccardo
great update!
It says mine doesn’t need the EFI update. Can I still do the SuperDrive update? That noise has been driving me nuts for 2 years now.
Yeah I’ll wait to see what happens to everyone else… last time I did an EFI things got messed up.
This update isn’t for the non-unibodies. Lame.
I have a unibody 15″ from june this year running 10.6.2 and it won’t install the 1.8 or the superdrive update so I’m stuck with the damn sound (didn’t annoy me ’til these updates came along). just says the computer doesn’t need the update.
turns out it’s not for the unibody 15″ according to apple (document updated December 8th). 1.7 is the latest firmware for these machines.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
Crashed and burned. Damnation!
I did the update, but didnt know what it was for, so I haven’t noticed if the noise is still there or not… i do know that there was a disc in my optical drive when I did the update and it spat the disc out at me after I did the reboot. LOL. Thought that was funny.
It’s SO NICE not to have the optical drive moo! 😀
Emil, same situation for me, 13″ MPB, makes that sound on start up, but Apple said this machine didn’t need when I tried to install it. Weird.
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now over to Camino I must go.
I have a MBP unibody 15. It updated to the new firmware, but after the reboot the sound card stopped to work. My MBP is mute. No sound…
Solved! I rebooted the MBP and after some minutes the sound card back to work again…