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Old February 13th 18, 05:25 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Default 1st Daily Start Sound

Once upon a time on usenet wrote:
Dell Inspiron about 6 yrars old. First startup or waking from sleep,
in a given day, and the CD drive is "jazzed" up then coasts back down
taking a couple of seconds. Makes no difference if the drive has a
disk or not. In the paast I noted this only infrequently, about every
month or so, but now it's every time. Anyone know what this is all
about ? PS - everything else completely normal.


Did you get a message on start-up recently saying anything about the BIOS
settings? Maybe a low battery has caused them to return to default which
checks for optical media on boot?

My other question is have you installed a new programme in that time
(especially but not limited to an install from optical media)? Perhaps it's
lookoing for media on boot.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)