e420s DVD drive sound on start

[honelnik]

Hi,

Ever since I first got my e420s it makes this loud sound whenever it boots, wakes up from standby or I plug or unplug usb.

I was wondering whether this is normal for e420s and whether or not is there a workaround for this since it started to annoy me lately.

I took a video of it using my phone, since my phone has really crappy Mic you can't hear it as loud as it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZ03i2 ... ata_player

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

You mean the HDD spinup sound?

Do you have a disc in the optical drive?

[honelnik]

Hi,

thanks for response.
It's actually the DVD drive, there's no disc in it but it's the exact same sound when I insert one.
It also does his when I insert a usb key or restart explorer.exe, the DVD drive gets initialized for some reason.

Any idea how to prevent this?

Thanks

[RealBlackStuff]

Have you got all the Intel system drivers installed?
Also check if any of your USB ports are damaged.

[honelnik]

all drivers installed. no usb damage whatsoever.
as I said this also happens when I kill explorer.exe, or even start a wmp player

I tried disabling the DVD drive in the bios, but the sound remains

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

That's really strange. Did you test without DVD drive? Or can't the drive be pulled on e420?

[honelnik]

the e420s has "unibody", there's no easy access to it but I'll try to get in and pull it out later this week

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

Nah, don't. Too much flimsy plastic on the Edge series.

In the explorer (windows button + e), do you have a rightclick option on the optical drive to "power off" or "disable"? I have that with my W520; I have it basically always turned off. I once forgot to take at a disc and then it would spin up at every wake cycle; so annoying; but turning the whole drive off solves that problem.

[honelnik]

no option like that
guess im stuck with the sound

thanks for the effort

[Khavvie]

no option like that
guess im stuck with the sound

thanks for the effort

I know this is old, but most of my DVD drive equipped laptops do this. It's normal behaviour.