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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. |
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casagiannoni 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. No mention of the OS. If Windows, start it in its safe mode. That will eliminate non-critical services and startup programs from loading. If the spinup doesn't happen when startup programs disabled then one of those causes the problem. You didn't mention if the CD spinup was during the POST and *before* the OS loaded or after the OS loaded. If the CD spinup is before the OS loads then you have a hardware issue (see Paul's suggestion). You might also wander into the BIOS settings to see if any apply against the optical drive. For example, you could remove the CD as one of the boot devices (if you never boot from it). Use the HDD/SDD as the first boot device instead of having the BIOS check for media in the optical and diskette drives. You said "waking from sleep" (which is not the same as hibernation) so it could be some software you load when you start Windows or something you loaded after starting Windows. If the problem is exhibited only when Windows is loaded, you need to test with a cleaner Windows. I've run into software that included utilities to keep the CD "awake" which ended up keeping it running (spinning). Took awhile to find the culprit and then I got rid of it. As I recall, it was some utility includes with a Creative Labs audio card but that was like a decade, or more, ago. Might've been for gaming so CD-based games were faster instead of having to wait for the disc to spin up. I've even hit anti-virus software causing the problem. Avira Free, for example, on my hosts with 3.5" diskette drives, would cause the diskette drive to scan once per minute. I would hear a grr sound for a second and the diskette drive's light came on. Something was trying to check if there was a floppy in the drive. Turns out Avira was polling all local drives even when they were not being accessed by the OS or by any app. Uninstall Avira and the problem went away. Install it again and problem reappeared. Avira claimed it was such a rare problem that no one else reported it (which was false because I found several other users noting the same problem with Avira) and they claimed that they couldn't reproduce it (which really meant they didn't bother to test it). Had to ditch Avira. No such problem with Avast, BitDefender, Defender, MalwareBytes, or any other anti-virus/malware software that I've tried. |
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