P6860FX Optical Drive Makes Clicking Noise

My FX's optical drive makes clicking noises when there's a CD/DVD in there and it's not reading the information. It reads/writes just fine. It has done this since day one. Is this normal for the dvd drive?

 

Anyone else notice this?

 

I've noticed mine revved up whenever I finished ripping a cd and it was going full steam too. But the cd had been finished ripping for a while and I had just left the cd and and stopped paying attention. By the time I finally realized it, the drive had been doing that for about a full two minutes. However, I've noticed that my drive(at least it could be) doesn't copy audio correctly. I've tried two different audio programs and notice that my songs have skips in them even though the cd is clean.

 

WTF is it with all these "clicking noises" as of late? Makes me wonder if I'm gonna start hearing them.

 

I have the same problem as DxJustin. I have noticed that the music i rip onto my P-6860fx skips at exactly the same spot in every first song on a cd. It skips at 55 seconds into the first song of a cd. However, when just playing the cd it does not skip at all. I have burned all of my cds on my home pc and there is no skipping at all. Does anyone have any ideas as to solutions.

P.S: My drive also revs up even when the ripping has been done for over 2minutes.

 

Has anyone found a solution because I lost all my music and I'm going to have to re-rip all of my cds. It doesn't skip on lower quality settings only when you have the quality turned up, but I'm a bit of an audiophile and like higher quality settings.

 

When I had a 6831 the drive was very quiet... after a week the 6860 came out and I upgraded... I've had 4 6860's (two returned for speaker issues) and all four had loud CD drives with pretty loud clicking. I assumed they had moved to slightly different model of CD drive and that they were just loud.

So to answer your question (having had 4 6860's in my hands total, and still own 2) yes, it is normal. Again, both my 6860's have loud clicking CD drives. I think one set of clicks is when the drives goes into a sleep like mode if it hasn't been used in a bit. Still loud and annoying though. Make me wonder if it's some sort of "drive lock" (similar to HDD free fall modes) to protect the drive??? Never looked into it though.

Sometimes a CD Drive firmware upgrade can make them quieter though.... not sure if there are any for our CD drive though as I haven't looked.

 

I just have some suggestions but I'd assume you've already tried at least some of them...

1) Use your desktop to rip the songs if possible
2) get an external CD-Rom and use that to rip
3) ?? upgrade the internal CD Rom
4) ensure you've got the latest drivers, firmwares, patches for all your software and hardware
5) if possible, rip at a higher quality setting but at a slower speed.

... and then of course backup your songs the next time.

 

I had backups but I had it on my webserver but the hdd completely died. bummer. I gave my desktop to my grandmother. It was a decent little beast too. And atm I'm trying to save my money to get the new 17" MBP when it comes out. I was just looking for a fix for it until I finally will be able to get the new one. And I'm almost 100% positive it's the drive because it has done it with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuse as well.