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Optical Drive operating on its own (3 posts)

rrbailey Posted 2 years, 11 months ago Joined: 2 years, 11 months ago

Any idea why the optical drives (Dvd Rewritable) start opening and closing all on their own? About every 20 seconds the drive drawer opens, then closes and spins up to operating speed, stops and then opens again. Yes, I have three computers connected to a wireless LAN and yes all three computers have done it from time to time. Yes, I have Nortons 360 installed on all three and do weekly scans. One temporary solution is to Uninstall the Dvd drive and then Restart the computer which fixes it for a while. Any ideas, Malware perhaps? Cheers, Rod

Ghost Posted 2 years, 11 months ago Joined: 4 years, 5 months ago

Could be software running in the background

Minimise the chances of it being any software that starts up automatically with Windows and runs in the background. Go to Start-Run, type in msconfig, go to the start up tab and uncheck all the boxes.

If it still occurs, run Windows task manager (press control-alt-delete to get to it) and find out what's running on your computer. I've read that Creative software can sometimes cause this problem, so if you have any Creative software installed on your systems, maybe kill the process and see if that stops the opening.

But yes, make sure you don't have any viruses/malware, so update your Nortons.

Hope this helps.

geekydude Posted 2 years, 10 months ago Joined: 2 years, 10 months ago

hmm somone is playing with you

i found out in my tafe days on a network you can open the dvd drive door on any pc on the network fun really i aimed to hit somone on the head or ofered them a free coffe cup holder then opend the cd drive door on there pc. are you the only one at the time on your network. or do you have a wireless network could be guy next door

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