DVD Drive Power Savings Issue - T400s

[Brian10161]

I can't seem to find a way to fix this. When I boot my TP up it will show the DVD drive as being powered off. I can't find settings for this in the BIOS or the power manager software either.

When I put a disc in the drive, it won't power up. It spins the disc up, then it stops and just sits there and won't even recognize there being a disc in the drive. Preferably, I'd just disable this option because I do use my drive enough that this does bother me. I guess it's for power savings, and I suppose it does work because it prevents you from using the DVD drive

When I boot the machine with the disc in, then it works fine until I shut down and remove the disk.

Any ideas or other people with this issue here?

[Harryc]

If you go into My Computer and right click on the optical drive and select to power it on? Does it now work? If yes, you need to change a power manager setting for the optical drive to prevent it from powering off...or just leave it like it is and remember to power it on next time .

[Brian10161]

I forgot to mention that I have tried that and it still it won't power up.

Still digging through the various power options, but I still can't find anything

[Harryc]

Install the Intel Storage Matrix driver - http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/researc ... MIGR-72858

[Brian10161]

I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks!