M15X Blueray drive revving.

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but has anyone else noticed their Blueray drive revving up and then back down every minute or so when the drive isn't in use?

Any ideas on how to stop this behavior? Thanks!

 

Just eject the disk that's in there. If that doesn't stop it, then I don't know...

 

Heh... that isn't the answer I was looking for

Honestly, sometimes you just want to keep a disc in the drive without it constantly revving and wearing itself out/being noisy/using up battery life. Is this a problem with the M15X, or Windows 7 in general?

I appreciate any insight.

 

A lady bought a dell laptop at a store I work at. And she wanted a return because something kept revving up constantly like you are describing. She didn't realize she had Microsoft Outlook install cd in the drive, I ejected it, and it quit happening. I'm not sure how to stop the drive from trying to read discs even if they aren't being used.

 

Do you have this problem with your laptop? Does anyone? I'm just trying to narrow it down to a laptop manufacturer issue, or a Windows 7 issue. Sadly, Googling for drive revving has gotten me nowhere.

 

This is a Windows 7 issue, I think, and it took me a while to narrow down the problem: It's the virtual disk service loader, which loads (surprise!) the virtual disk service. For whatever reason, the service loader loads the service every 60 seconds, and it must stop almost immediately thereafter or else the service loader wouldn't load it again.

This cause me HUGE problems when I was playing blue ray DVD's because the movie would hiccup every time the service loader started. So...I went into the services console, and I disabled the Virtual Disk service. That was three weeks ago, and to date I haven't had any problems, nor has my DVD drive been spinning once a minute and annoying the hell out of me.

The virtual disk service executable is vds.exe. It is loaded by vdsldr.exe, which is causing your problem (you can check this--look at the task manager...right before your drive starts spinning, you will see vdsldr.exe pop up for a second). If you disable the virtual disk service and kill all instances of vds.exe and vdsldr.exe, you should be good to go.

Not sure why this problem arises, and I never did find anything about it on Google.

--Hank

 

Wow, I never would have found that on my own. Thanks a bunch for the help, I will give it a shot and see what happens.

 

I don't have this issue, maybe because i did a clean install of win 7. Also took out some of dells drivers and used win 7 drivers.

 

I got mine with win 7 home premium but i used the anytime upgrade to put my windows 7 pro. i have never faced this issue so far... and i use my drive every now and then.