ASUS G75VW Disk Drive Activates Randomly

Hey Everyone,

The problem I am experiencing with my laptop is every once in awhile the drive will activate itself, like it is trying to read a disk. It does it when I open iTunes, or when I plug something into the USB ports. Those are the really the only two times I can think of when it happens, I do believe it happens more though.

Here is a video of the same issue someone has had with it before: CD tray activates when I open iTunes - YouTube

I guess a solution would be to disable the CD Drive until I need to use it, but I was wondering if there is any other solution.

Thanks!

 

I have the exact same problem (as well as the exact same laptop). Brought it up on here once and I think someone mentioned that it might be looking for drivers or something, that's why the Blu-ray drive flips out because it's trying to detect a disk.

No solutions were posted. But at this point it's just a minor annoyance and it only happens when I plug my phone into the USB slot right above the disk drive.

 

Yup, same thing. I guess the only solution would be to what I said previously and just disable the drive in the device manager, and whenever I use it which is really almost never, just re-enable it for use.

 

That sounds awfully counter-intuitive. What really bothers me is that while this is apparently a common problem (couple of threads about this on the ROG forums) no one actually knows what the hell is going on.